This chopped salad is about to become your meal prep go-to to bring as your lunch to work or school, or to have in the fridge right when you get home! It’s so delicious, packed with nutrients, and stores perfectly in a mason jar for whenever you’re ready to eat it!
SERVING SIZE: 2 (32 oz mason jars)
THE RECIPE:
If you haven’t already, boil your eggs and shred your rotisserie or boiled chicken. For hard boiled eggs, my favorite way to make them is to boil the eggs for exactly 12 minutes then immediately put them in an ice bath. I usually make 8-12 for the week for meal prep. For the chicken, you can shred leftover chicken, boiled chicken, or rotisserie chicken.
Then, I like to prep any ingredients that need to be chopped up. Chop up the romaine lettuce, halve the cherry tomatoes, dice boiled eggs, and dice the red onion. Once all of your veggies are ready to go, make sure you have all your other ingredients on hand and it’s time to build your mason jars!
Evenly distribute each ingredient portion between the two jars in this order:
Pour in 2 tbsp olive oil (1 tbsp per jar, this half and half distribution goes for every ingredient).
Next add the dijon, honey, salt and pepper. Squeeze in the juice of lemon. Mix together with a long spoon at the bottom of the jar.
The order of ingredients add in: white beans or chickpeas, then cherry tomatoes, then hard boiled eggs.
The next layer the shredded chicken, but you can also skip this step if you want to make it vegetarian! Just add some more white beans if you skip the chicken;)
Add the red onion followed by chopped up romaine. (pack the lettuce in there!) When meal prepping a salad, the ingredients most likely to get soggy should go on top, which is why lettuce is the last veggie we’re adding!
Finish with shaved parmesan.
Just like that, you’ve got your next meal packed and ready to go wherever you’re headed! Pour it right into a bowl to enjoy whenever you’re ready.
Chopped Salad
Ingredients
For dressing on the bottom, split the following ingredients in both jars:
- 1 lemon squeezed
- 1 tbsp dijon (so 1/2 tbsp in each jar)
- 1 tsp salt and pepper
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp honey
For the salad:
- 1 cup white beans drained + rinsed, alt. chickpeas
- ½ cup cherry tomatoes halved
- 2.5 cups romaine washed and diced
- 1 cup shredded cooked chicken or remove for vegetarian
- 3 hard boiled eggs 1 1/2 diced in each
- ½ cup shaved parmesan
- ¼ cup red onion diced
Instructions
- If you haven’t already, boil your eggs and shred your rotisserie or boiled chicken. For hard boiled eggs, my favorite way to make them is to boil the eggs for exactly 12 minutes then put them immediately into an ice bath. I usually make 8-12 for the week for meal prep. For the chicken, you can shred leftover chicken, boiled chicken, or rotisserie chicken.
- Then, I like to prep any ingredients that need to be chopped up. Slice the romaine lettuce, halve cherry tomatoes, dice up hard boiled eggs, and dice red onion. Once all of your veggies are ready to go, make sure you have all your other ingredients on hand and it’s time to build your mason jars!
- Evenly distribute each ingredient portion between the two jars in this order:
- Pour in 2 tbsp olive oil (1 tbsp per jar, this half and half distribution goes for every ingredient). Adding oil or dressing first keeps the rest of the salad from getting soggy!
- Next add dijon, honey, and salt and pepper. Squeeze in the juice of lemon. Mix together with a long spoon at the bottom of the mason jar.
- The order of ingredients are important !Add in 1 cup white beans or chickpeas and the halved cherry tomatoes.
- Put in diced hard boiled eggs.
- The next layer is chicken, but you can also skip this step if you want to make it vegetarian! Just add some more white beans if you skip the chicken;)
- Add red onion followed by chopped romaine. Pack the romaine!! When meal prepping a salad, the ingredients most likely to get soggy should go on top, which is why lettuce is the last veggie we’re adding!
- Finish with shaved parmesan.
- Just like that, you’ve got your next meal packed and ready to go wherever you’re headed! Pour it right into a bowl to enjoy whenever you're ready.
