It’s salad season, and right now, I’m all about these jar salads. I love having a few ready made lunches on hand in the fridge that are put together and just need a good shake up to enjoy. They make for great grab-and-go lunches too since you can eat them straight out of the jar. This particular one is based one of my all time favorite salads, a caprese.

A caprese salad is tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, and usually some sort of greens to go along with it. I started this one off with an Italian based dressing along with some basil pearled couscous to make the salad just a touch more filling.

The trick to jar salads is always to layer them appropriately so that the wettest things are on the bottom and the dryer things are on top. You especially want to keep the greens on top so that they don’t get soggy or with with the wet of the dressing. Once you’re ready to enjoy, you just shake it all up and get everything coated evenly.

This Caprese Jar Salad is one of my new favorites, but I feel like I say that anytime I make one of these jar salads lately.

Caprese Jar Salad

Yield: 4

Author: The Skinny Fork (Amanda Plott)

Prep time: 5 MinTotal time: 5 Min

Tasty, quick, and easy to make jar salads based on the favorited caprese salad of tomatoes and fresh mozzarella.

Ingredients

1 (5 Oz.) Box Basil Pearl Couscous, Cooked
8 Tbsp. Light Italian Dressing
1/2 C. Chopped or Sliced Red Onion
1 Pt. Cherry Tomatoes, Halved
8 Oz. Fresh Mozzarella Pearls
8 C. Fresh Baby Kale and/or Baby Spinach

Instructions

Cook the 5 Oz. Box of Basil Pearl Couscous according to instructions; set aside in fridge to cool.
Once cool, set out four large salad jars and place 2 Tbsp. Light Italian Dressing and 2 Tbsp. Chopped or Sliced Red Onion into the bottom of each. Divide the couscous evenly among jars.
Layer that with the 1 Pt. Cherry Tomatoes and 8 Oz. Fresh Mozzarella Pearls divided evenly among jars.
Finally, top each off with 2 C. Fresh Baby Kale and/or Baby Spinach.
Seal the lid and store in the fridge for 3-5 days.
Once ready to enjoy, give the jar a shake and enjoy directly from the jar or toss the salad out onto a plate.

Nutrition Facts

Calories

429.56

Fat (grams)

21.13

Sat. Fat (grams)

8.62

Carbs (grams)

40.2

Fiber (grams)

7.63

Net carbs

32.57

Sugar (grams)

5.78

Protein (grams)

21.38

Sodium (milligrams)

723.27

Cholesterol (grams)

44.79

Nutritional Claims: Vegetarian • Pescatarian • Egg Free • Peanut Free • Tree Nut Free • Soy Free • Fish Free • Shellfish Free • Pork Free • Red Meat Free • Crustacean Free • Celery Free • Mustard Free • Sesame Free • Lupine Free • Mollusk Free • Alcohol Free • No Sugar Added • Sulphite Free • Kosher