Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, mason jar taco salad. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Mason Jar Taco Salad is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Mason Jar Taco Salad is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
I mean, when did we start putting a salad in a jar? This Taco salad in a Mason jar is about to step up your lunch game. It's a healthy taco salad with all the great classic taco salad fixings with a few.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook mason jar taco salad using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Mason Jar Taco Salad:
- Get 2-3 tbsp. salad dressing of choice
- Make ready 1/4 cup diced tomatoes
- Prepare 1/4 cup diced onion
- Get 1/4 cup corn kernels
- Get 1/2 cup black beans, cooked and cooled or rinsed from a can
- Prepare 1/2 cup ground beef, cooked and seasoned then cooled (Could also use half a grilled chicken breast, diced or for veggie, just increase black beans to 3/4 cup)
- Get 2 tbsp. shredded cheese (some good varieties for this salad are cheddar, colby jack or pepper jack)
- Take 2-3 cups leafy greens (for this I used a mix of romaine and spring mix)
- Prepare 2 tbsp. tortilla strips or crushed tortilla chips
- Prepare Wide mouthed quart size mason jar with lid
Take just a few minutes to prep your own make-ahead mason jar salads for the entire week plus a killer clean honey mustard salad dressing! The secret to a perfect and tasty Mason jar salad is all in the order. This guarantees that your salad ingredients don't get soggy. Then go with a grain or a protein, or anything else big and chunky.
Steps to make Mason Jar Taco Salad:
- This is a very simple meal to put together. You just layer all ingredients in the order listed.
- Start by pouring the dressing into the bottom of the mason jar. For the sriracha ranch, simply whisk in some sriracha sauce into ranch dressing to taste. Then start with the sturdier ingredients that will be ok sitting in the dressing for a bit…the tomatoes and then the onions.
- Next put in the corn followed by black beans. If making this a vegetarian taco salad, then skip to step 5.
- Add the cooled ground beef into the jar, or if using diced chicken, add now.
- Place in the cheese next.
- Add in the leafy greens. Make sure to pack them in gently.
- Lastly add the tortillas strips on top of the lettuce. Place lid on the mason jar and refrigerate until ready to eat.
- Once ready to eat, just dump everything into a bowl and give a quick toss. You could eat straight from the jar, but I prefer to use a separate bowl.
This protects your more delicate ingredients from getting wet. If you do add meat (like chicken, ham, tuna, or salmon), try to eat within a day or. Take this Healthy Taco Salad to work or school in a super convenient mason jar! It is an easy mason jar salad recipe that you can prep-ahead for the week! Prep-ahead and have this easy mason jar salad recipe ready to grab-and-go.
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