Mason Jar Salads
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Total Time: 15 minutes
- Yield: 6 1x
- Category: Soup & Salad
- Method: No Cook
- Cuisine: Asian
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 cup rice, cooked according to directions (158g)
- 1 15 oz can mandarin oranges in 100% fruit juice, drained (425g)
- 1 15 oz can pineapple chunks in 100% fruit juice, drained (425g)
- 1 stalk of green onions, sliced (15g)
- 4 cups red cabbage, shredded (600g)
- 4 cups fresh stir fry vegetable mix (or equivalent in chopped broccoli florets and carrots) (952g)
For the Vinaigrette:
- 2 tablespoons miso paste (34g)
- 2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar (30g)
- 1 tablespoon honey (21g)
- 1 tablespoon freshly grated ginger root (7g)
- 1 tablespoon sesame oil (14g)
- 1 teaspoon toasted sesame seeds (3g)
- 1 ½ teaspoons lime juice (10g)
Instructions
- Cook rice according to manufacturer’s instructions.
- Make the vinaigrette by tossing mixing together the miso, vinegar, ginger, honey, oil, sesame seeds and lime juice.
- Toss the rice with the vinaigrette and divide between the 6 mason jars.
- Evenly distribute the fruit between the jars, followed by the cabbage, chopped veggies (or stir fry blend), and finished with the green onions. Place caps on the mason jars and refrigerate until ready to serve or pack up for an outing.
Notes
When making layered mason jar salads, you put the ingredients in the jar in a specific order to keep everything fresh and separate, without getting soggy layers.
Start at the bottom with your dressing. You’ll want to add your protein to the dressing, or another ingredient that can withstand sitting in the liquid.
Next, layer your more moist ingredients. In the Asian salad, that’s the canned oranges and pineapple.
After that, you’ll add your salad greens and your sturdier vegetables. These are the ones you want to wait to dress until you’re serving the salad. You can decide if you want the sturdy veggies or the greens as the top layer. Either is fine, as long as both are separate from the high-moisture ingredients at the bottom of the jar.