Meal Prep Salad Jars! 🥗 The Best Tricks + Variations
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.ย. 2021
- Meal Prep Salad Jars! Easy Lunch Meal Prep Recipe
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Just say no to boring salads! Learn how to layer salad jars and the best tips and tricks for how to meal prep salads in jars.
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Ingredients:
1 carrot, julienne cut or shredded
1 cucumber, chopped into cubes
2 watermelon radishes, thinly sliced
20 grape tomatoes, cut in half
1 cup of cooked quinoa*
1 (14-ounce can) garbanzo beans, drained and rinsed
1 avocado
2 tablespoons chia seeds (or enough to coat the avocado slices)
4 big handfuls of mixed greens
1/2 cup pumpkin seeds, dry toasted in a skillet on your stovetop for 5 minutes
*Learn how to make Perfectly Cooked Quinoa here: www.elizabethrider.com/cook-q...
If you want to add a hard-boiled egg to your salad jars, learn how to make Easy-To-Peel Hard-Boiled Eggs here: www.elizabethrider.com/perfec...
Method:
1. Prepare your veggies. I like to julienne cut or shred my carrots, chop the cucumbers, and slice radishes on a hand-held mandoline. Use any method you like to prepare your veggies, and remember to mix up the textures to keep your make-ahead salad jars interesting.
2. Always add your dressing to the bottom of your salad jar, then layer in hard/crunchy veggies such as cucumbers, radishes, and carrots.
3. Next add your protein. In this case quinoa and garbanzo beans. Add chicken or chopped hard-boiled egg if desired.
4. Slice or chop your avocado and roll it in the chia seeds to prevent it from oxidizing. Add those on top of the protein.
5. Finally, add your greens and top them off with pumpkin seeds, and put the lids on.
Meal prep salad jars without any dairy, eggs, or meat will keep in the refrigerator for 5 days. If you add dairy, meat, or hard-boiled egg, your salad jars will keep for 3 days in the fridge.
Get 6 Easy-to-Make Salad Dressing Recipes here: www.elizabethrider.com/tag/sa...
In this video: Honey Mustard Dressing Ingredients
¼ extra virgin olive oil
¼ raw honey
¼ apple cider vinegar
¼ dijon mustard
pinch of sea salt
black pepper
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Omgggfg thank you! I was looking for a video specifically showing how much salad I would actually get out of a pint size jar and that comparison is exactly what i was looking for. Bless you 🙏🏾
You are so welcome!
This short video is packed with great tips! Ask many food videos are too much fluff. I'm going to watch this again and take notes. 📝 Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Seriously wonderful video! Thank you Elizabeth! I want to share that I used to think that zoodles were a magical food that could only be found in a restaurant but a few years ago I bought a spiralizer and now I make noodles out of almost every vegetable. Best $30 I have ever spent!
A quick tip:
There are variances in the sweetness of honey; some flower sources provide more sugars in the resulting honey.
If you aren't too keen on sweetness, try wildflower or buckwheat honey. If you have an aggressive sweet tooth, orange blossom or clover honey is far sweeter.
What I love about this simple honey-mustard dressing recipe is not just the equal-parts measurements, but that it will keep a long time in the fridge. Actually, it will keep just as well OUT of the fridge! None of the ingredients will spoil if left out!
Another way to introduce avocado into your salad without it turning brown is to mash it and mix it with mayonnaise. Mayonnaise contains lemon juice, which retards oxidation, but also the egg and oil in the mayo helps seal the avocado from the air. The mayo turns a pleasant green color and stays that way in the short term, and you still get the nutritional benefit of the avocado!
Small criticism:
If you put dressing in the bottom of the jar then drop cucumber chunks into the dressing, you are effectively making pickles, losing the freshness and some of the crispness of the cucumbers.
-Better to seal the dressing in a separate small container, to add just before eating
-2nd choice would be to follow the dressing with the quinoa; quinoa is famously unexciting (a flavor between oatmeal and brown rice), so dropping the quinoa into the dressing gives it flavor and helps carry the dressing throughout the salad when the jar is shaken or the bowl stirred. Following the quinoa with the bean layer (and even an added greens layer) would help separate the dressing from the vegetables so the vegetables would keep their individual flavors and crispness.
Nice... I love the little jars 😊
Wow, these jar salads are looking so delish, thank you for sharing, and stay in touch :)
Thank you so much 😊
Amazing! These are the BEST!
Glad you think so!
They are not ready to go😊. But I will do this and enjoyed your video
Sounds good! Hope you enjoy!
Awesome video
Thanks!
Love your Content 💕🙂
Thank you so much 😁
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hi there love this idea. where would you add meat protein? thanks
I would add it above any beans before any greens :)
super. Love these technique you shared tips for 🥑 avocado, cutting the box for greens!
Remember to always, always shake your ACV before you pour, that way it’ll include the ‘mother’ which is why we all use ACV…
I would prefer to see the finished salad or at least be given a list of ingredients before I have to watch an entire video only to find out it’s not something I’d enjoy eating. It was somewhat annoying when you are talking to us but not looking at the camera