I love picnics and salads and jars. Combine all three with this portable layered salad idea. I was trying to make a Jubilee salad (red white and blue) but frustratingly discovered that are there are no genuinely blue foods. Blue foods are purple. So I gave up and used whatever goodies I could find in my fridge.
The layers from the bottom:
Pickled plums recipe from Nigella Lawson
Mini mozzarella ‘pearls’ (available at Tesco)
Tiny cherry tomatoes from Riverford Organics.
Curley parsley from my garden.
Shaved purple carrots
Shaved orange carrots
Sunflower sprouts from Riverford Organics.
Dressing of your choice
Tip: put the dressing in the bottom then turn the jar upside down once you’ve set up your picnic.
GrowingDirect
What a simply brilliant idea – will definitely give this a go. Thank you for sharing this.
Carol x
Anonymous
This looks fabulous!
Frankie
What a fantastic idea – I will definitely be trying this at work -instead of buying lunch every day!
Frankie
Anonymous
A most excellent idea!
Linda McMullan
Brilliant and pretty, too! I can't wait to try this for a beach picnic…and now I'm imagining a layered marinated shrimp salad with capers and tomatoes and your curly parsley. Thanks so much for this great idea.
Denise Baker-McClearn
instead of mozzerella from dreaded tesco try Peli Pabo, creamy goats cheese pearls from Y Cwt Caws (http://www.moelfre.org/cwt_caws.htm) up here in North Wales…creamy gorgeousness
Denise x
Beauty Balm
this looks yummy and so pretty x
theundergroundrestaurant
I do know what good mozzarella is Denise. But I was using what I had in the fridge.
But thanks everyone else for your lovely comments.
Magnolia Verandah
I love this idea and it looks so gorgeous. I take my lunch to work every day but it doesn't look as inviting as this beautiful salad in a Jar.
Thank you – looking forward to Monday now to do a bit of showing off!
Mango Ginger
That is bloody genius, why has noone thought of this before?!
theundergroundrestaurant
Magnolia: what kind of layers are you thinking of?
One could do feta, spinach, chickpea layers with a harissa tahina dressing?
Anonymous
This is a lovely recipe. I will definitely try it out. Ideal picnic recipe. One thing that I noticed though is that the pickled plum recipe is not Nigella's. It's taken from her website but it looks as though it's from a reader. (Not mine!!) But if you tried it out then I'm sure it's great. So no qualms there! Love your site! xx
theundergroundrestaurant
I think Nigella has done a pickled plum recipe in one of her books. She loves a pickle just as I do!