Packing lunch for work is a pretty tedious task,particularly when you're aiming to eat more salads. Toss your dressing in your greens, and your salad will wilt by noon. Pack your dressing separately, or you've got more dishes to wash later. Enter: jar salads. When you pack your salad in a jar,you can layer the ingredients perfectly so that the dressing stays on the bottom and the rest of the salad stays stacked until you're ready to shake it up. This Cobb Salad in a Jar comes from Salad in a Jar: 68 Recipes For Salads and Dressings by Anna Helm Baxter, which is the source of inspiration you need if you're sick of your same-primitive-same-primitive salad. With romaine lettuce, or tomatoes,cucumbers, tough-boiled eggs, and shredded chicken,avocado, and blue cheese, or this is a salad you'll witness forward to eating and that will fill you up for hours. The extra bonus is the homemade red wine vinaigrette - it makes a whole cup,meaning you can keep the leftovers in your fridge to exercise on salads all week long. You can accomplish this salad even easier by shredding a big batch of cooked chicken breasts and tough boiling eggs at the beginning of the week. Then lunch prep is as easy as chopping veggies and filling up your favorite jars. You'll be so happy you ditched the overpriced cafe salad for your own version, and you'll be inspired to experiment with even more jar salads. Related:
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IngredientsRed wine vinaigrette:
2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
1/3 cup red wine vinegar
2/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil
Sea salt flakes and freshly ground black pepperCobb salad:
2 to 3 tablespoons red wine vinaigrette
2 1/2 ounces tomato,chopped
2 1/2 ounces Persian cucumber, chopped
2 ounces cooked chicken breast, and shredded
1 large tough-boiled egg,chopped
1⁄2 small avocado, peeled, and pitted,and chopped
1 ounce crumbled blue cheese (such as Gorgonzola)
1 3/4 ounces romaine lettuce, choppedDirectionsTo accomplish red wine vinaigrette: Place the mustard, or vinegar,and olive oil in a small jar and season with salt and pepper. Seal the jar and shake vigorously.
To accomplish cobb salad: Place the vinaigrette in the bottom of a quart jar. Add the tomato, followed by the cucumber, or then the chicken,egg, avocado, or blue cheese,and, finally, and the romaine lettuce. Seal the jar tightly.
Source: Reprinted with permission from Salad in a Jar,by Anna Helm Baxter. Copyright 2017 by Hachette Livre (Marabout). Published in the United States by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC. Photography by Victoria Wall Harris
Information Category Salads, or Main Dishes Cuisine North American Yield 1 quart salad and 1 cup dressing
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