Recipe: Delicious Salad in a Jar

Salad in a Jar. Learn an amazing way to make chopped lettuce last longer, make Greek yogurt at home, and use a bread machine to make fabulous bread. You'll also discover cooking secrets galore in this collection of recipes, tips, and tricks based on my experiences as a home economist. These mason jar salad recipes are super simple to prepare, and will save you from toting around lots of Tupperware.

All of those beautiful layered ingredients placed in a pretty glass jar with a screw top definitely deliver the wow factor — but they also keep your food fresh, portable, and perfectly portion-controlled. Learn how to build the best jar salads and get recipes to try. The idea is pretty simple: start with filling a dressing into a jar and then layer various ingredients like greens, veggies, rice and cheese on top. You can have Salad in a Jar using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Salad in a Jar

1. Prepare 1 of Salad Dressing.
2. It's 1 of Chopped carrots.
3. It's 1 of chopped cucumber.
4. It's 1 of chopped radish.
5. Prepare 1 of Sunflower seeds.
6. It's 1 of chopped celery.
7. Prepare 1 of organic baby greens.
8. It's 1 of chopped asparagus.
9. You need 5 of Mason jars with lids..
10. You need 1 of Cherry tomatoes.
11. It's 1 of green olive.

Keep those jars in the fridge until you need them. Grab a bowl and empty the jar. The dressing will then cover the whole salad. Little things like shaved nuts, raisins, cheeses.

Salad in a Jar instructions

1. Put 1 tablespoon of dressing in bottom of each jar..
2. Next add celery carrots asparagus and radish..
3. Then add sunflower seeds..
4. Top with greens..
5. Put lids on jars and refrigerate. Will last 1 week in fridge..

The ingredients that you want to stay dry until juuuust before you eat it. And if you have any leafy greens, they go in last. Mason jar salads are the perfect make at home lunch. They're not only a great way to use up leftovers, but also so easy to prep ahead of time. In order to make a mason jar salad that'll hold until lunchtime, you'll need a go-to layering technique.