Salad in a jar

[eabc5454]

I saw this idea on FB this week and we tried it.

In a one-quart mason jar, add dressing first. Then add anything you like - peppers, cucumbers, radishes, mushroms, cranberries, sunflower seeds, cheese shreds, etc. Lastly, not touching the dressing, add lettuce and/or spinach. Store in fridge upright.

To serve, dump onto a plate. It ends up in the right order - lettuce, stuff and dressing on top! Awesome, and I can prepare it at home before we leave or several at a time on the road.

[profdant139]

DW puts salad fixins into a plastic bag -- dumps in dressing - shakes -- and dumps out the dressed salad. The bag gets thrown away. Nothing to wash. Salad is crisp because it is dressed just before serving. No jar to store in the fridge.

[TXcampingfamily]

The Jamie Deen recipe sounded interesting. I found it here for anyone who was looking for it too.

[lizbard]

They showed this last week on an old Rachel Ray.

Jaimie Deen was on the Chew on Friday and talked about making up a salad dressing in a jam jar - for double tips. It looked good and it was for pouring over the wagon wheel pasta, broccoli, carrots, etc. and he put the veggies in with the pasta the last couple of minutes to quick cook and make the veggies easier for his sons to eat. Pour the dressing over the hot pasta to make it more flavorable.

[hokeypokey]

I set 5 jars on the counter and fill them all at the same time, thus 1 mess to clean up. The jars fit nicely in my refrigerator drawer and lunch is ready to take to work. They last all week, but I add dressing after I dump it out. If you wish, put a cupcake paper on top of the lettuce and set a hardboiled egg on it or drained kidney beans, etc etc.