The Ultimate On-the-Go Salad Jar: Your Lunchtime Winner

Lunch & Dinner
Written By Sarah Ann Macklin, ANutr
 
makes 3 salad jars | PREP TIME: 10mins | COOK/bake/chill TIME: 20mins
PER SERVING
CALORIES: 670 | FAT: 31G | CARBS: 78G |  PROTEIN: 18G

Here's my tasty Salad Jar recipe! It's like a little jar of joy filled with chickpeas, broccoli, orzo, avocado, and spinach, spiced to perfection. It's your perfect grab-and-go lunch buddy that's not just delicious, but really good for you too!

Ingredients

For the dressing

  • 30ml extra-virgin olive oil

  • 60g tahini

  • Juice from 1 lemon

  • 1⁄2 teaspoon garlic granules

  • Generous pinch of salt

  • 1 can of chickpeas (drained and rinsed)

  • 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil

  • 1 teaspoon smoked paprika

  • 1 teaspoon mixed herbs

  • Salt to season

  • 1 small head of broccoli (cut into florets)

  • 1⁄2 teaspoon garlic granules

  • 180g dried orzo pasta

  • 360ml vegetable stock

  • 200g cherry tomatoes (halved)

  • 1 red pepper (diced)

  • 1 avocado (sliced)

  • 3 large handfuls of spinach leaves

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 180c.

  2. Scatter the chickpeas onto a baking tray and drizzle over 1⁄2 tablespoon of olive oil. Add the smoked paprika, mixed herbs and a generous pinch of salt and combine.

  3. Place the broccoli florets into another baking tray, drizzle over the remaining 1⁄2 tablespoon of olive oil and add the garlic granules. Combine.

  4. Place both trays in the oven for 20-25 minutes.

  5. Meanwhile place the orzo and stock in a pan on the hob and cook for approx. 15 minutes stirring frequently.

  6. Prepare the dressing by combining all the ingredients in a bowl. Then split the dressing between 3 large jars.

  7. Split the halved cherry tomatoes between the jars.

  8. Once the broccoli has cooled slightly from being in the oven, add it on top of the tomatoes.

  9. Layer up with the diced red pepper, sliced avocado, cooked chickpeas, cooked orzo and finish off with the spinach leaves.

  10. Store the jars in the fridge until you wish the eat. Then simply pour the contents onto a plate. The dressing at the bottom may need a little help from a spoon to get it out of the jar.

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Sarah Ann Macklin, ANutr

Sarah Ann Macklin, is hailed as the Jamie Oliver of the nutrition world by Marie Claire. Sarah is an award-winning AfN-accredited nutritionist, and is well-respected in her field.

She is a renowned podcast host, public speaker, TEDx speaker, international model, and health journalist, and was named Woman of the Year in 2019 by Rake Magazine.

In addition to her personal accomplishments, Sarah Ann founded the Be Well Collective, a not-for-profit organization that focuses on preventative mental health initiatives. Her top 4 UK podcast, Live Well, Be Well, has garnered significant success and furthered her reach in the health and wellbeing space.

In 2018, Sarah Ann presented her findings on dietary guidelines and their connection to the Type 2 diabetes epidemic at the European Parliament in a campaign called "Big Food and Big Pharma: Killing for Profit?" Two years later, she launched a public health campaign through her book, The Great British Veg Out, which encouraged the UK to implement its 5-a-day initiative gaining support from Gary Barlow to Victoria Pendleton.

Drawing from her 15 years as a successful international model, Sarah identified the lack of nutritional guidance for young women and men in the industry. This inspired her to establish the Be Well Collective, which has since hosted education summits for up to 500 attendees at a time, conducted over 20 workshops, and launched two mentoring programs, as well as providing online resources weekly.  So far, Sarah and her organization have supported over 1000 young people in person, providing essential and sometimes lifesaving services.

Sarah's 2019 TEDx talk, "Are models, role models?" further solidified her role as a recognized public speaker on physical and mental health. She has also contributed to esteemed publications such as the Financial Times, Telegraph, Evening Standard, Women's Health, Esquire, Mr Porter, and Harper's Bazaar.

https://www.youtube.com/@livewellbewellsarah
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