Greek Salad Mason Jars with homemade tzatziki are an easy, healthy, quick meal prep option to set you up for success for your week!
As you now know I am a huge advocate of meal prep. By spending a little time on Sunday meal prepping, your whole week is setup for success. I find meal prepping ensures I eat healthy and also helps me feel less stressed out throughout the week trying to through together lunches.
Looking for other awesome mason jar meal prep ideas?! Check out my mason jar burrito bowls and coconut milk overnight oatmeal. Is anyone else obsessed with mason jars or is that just me? LOL. If you’re looking for a non mason jar breakfast prep, my apple pie muffins are the perfect heathy item to throw in your lunch and a caprese sandwich is always an easy and delicious choice.
How to Make Mason Jar Greek Salad
Greek Salad in a mason jar is super easy to throw together.
I like to start with a quinoa base. You could use other grains such as brown rice, however I like that quinoa has more protein in it. Start by making your quinoa. Let it cool before building your mason jars so the steam doesn’t make your vegetables soften.
While your quinoa is cooling you are going to chop your tomatoes, cucumbers, and red onion. I half or quarter the cherry tomatoes and then I slice the cucumber and cut each slice into quarters for nice bite size pieces.
After everything is done I build the mason jars by starting with the quinoa, adding cucumbers, and then tomatoes. I like to have the tomatoes on top so they don’t get squished. I will then sprinkle red onion on top.
Lastly I will prep my tzatziki. The tzatziki is better when it has a chance to sit and let the flavors really develop. So for interest on both letting the flavors develop and also keeping the vegetables crisp the whole week, I make the tzatziki and then put it to the side and every morning put a dollop in my mason jar.
How to Make Homemade Tzatziki
I LOVE tzatziki but I never made it because I always thought it was too complicated or wouldn’t be as good. I thought there was some kind of weird step with the cucumber and I just never bothered.
Well I was delightfully surprised when I decided to give it a go and realized how easy it was. I will never buy tzatziki again!
You start by grating a cucumber. I then place out a paper towel and put the shredded cucumber along it and then squeeze out any possible juice.
Then mix together all of the ingredients. And voila! You have delicious tzatziki.
For my yogurt I used Silk Unsweetened Cultured Coconut. It was perfect for this tzatziki and I would use this yogurt time and time again!
Greek Salad Mason Jars
Ingredients
- 1 Cup Quinoa, Uncooked
- 1 Small Container, 424 g Cherry Tomatoes
- 1 Medium Cucumber
- ½ Red Onion
Tzatziki
- 1 Cup Cucumber, Grated Approximately 1 small english cucumber
- 1 Cup Plain Yogurt I used Silk Unsweetened Coconut Yogurt
- 1 Tbsp Olive Oil
- 2 Tbsp Fresh Dill
- 1 Tbsp Lemon Juice
- 2 Garlic Cloves, Minced
- ¼ Tsp Salt
Instructions
- Cook quinoa as per stated directions. Allow to cool after cooking.
- Chop cherry tomatoes and cucumbers into bite size pieces. Cherry tomatoes I will half or quarter. And cucumbers I will slice and then quarter each slice.
- Dice red onion. I prefer to dice smaller to only get a little bit in each bite.
- After quinoa has cooled, build mason jars. Start with quinoa on bottom, layer on cucumbers into each jar, then cherry tomatoes, and lastly sprinkle red onion on top.
Homemade Tzatziki
- Grate cucumber
- Using paper towel or cheese cloth, squeeze out cucumber to remove as much moisture as possible
- In a small mixing bowl, mix together cucumber, yogurt, olive oil, dill, lemon juice, minced garlic cloves, and salt.
- Allow tzatziki to sit for 1 hour in fridge.
- Dollop desired amount of tzatziki on each mason jar before you take them for lunch.
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