One of my favorite salads is antipasto salad. Filled with Italian meats, cheese, and marinated vegetables it’s delicious, comforting, and the perfect lunch to look forward to all morning long. I’ll show you how to layer this Italian classic into a mason jar salad.
A classic antipasto is not exactly on the lighter side. In fact, it pretty easy to bust the calorie bank with a plate of meat, cheese, and veggies soaked in Italian dressing. Just saying.. it’s good but maybe not the first salad we think to reach for when trying to eat healthy.
However, with preparing your own antipasto salad you control the ingredients and portions making this Italian classic a feasible option for lunch or dinner.
How to Make Antipasto Salad in a Jar
Whenever I use deli meats in a recipe I always use the highest quality, preferable organic, deli meats. Most grocery stores have a high quality brand available. If you are not sure just ask someone that works there. Of course, it will cost a little extra but in my opinion it is worth it.
I make my homemade Italian dressing so I can control the ingredients.
For the vegetables I used cherry tomatoes, artichoke hearts, roasted red peppers as the base. I did not purchase marinated artichoke hearts because they would already be marinating in the dressing. They turned out delicious!
Then as with any classic antipasto I included roasted salami, pepperoni, ham, turkey, and provolone. Oh mama it was good.
I ended up topping this salad with arugula. Orginally, I wanted to use romaine lettuce but my grocery store was out. But I must say I loved the arugula. In my opinion, arugula with it’s peppery flavor adds a nice kick to any salad, this one included.
This low carb high protein antipasto mason jar salad is 347 calories and 9 weight watchers points.
If you have any “how to” mason jar salad questions please check out my tutorial.
Antipasto Salad in a Jar
Ingredients
- 10 tablespoons Homemade Italian Dressing
- 1 quart cherry tomatoes about 10 tomatoes per jar, sliced in half
- 1 14-ounce can artichoke hearts, drained and chopped
- 3 jarred roasted red peppers chopped
- 15 pepperoncini stems cut off
- 5 thin slices of each salami, sandwich pepperoni, turkey, ham, provolone cheese
- 3 cups arugula
Instructions
- Divide and layer the ingredients among the mason jars. Start with the dressing (1 ½ tablespoons per jar) then continue with cherry tomatoes, artichokes, roasted red peppers, pepperoncini, meat and cheese, and finish with the arugula.
- When you are ready to eat the salad just give the jar a shake and then pour it into a bowl.
Patrick says
This might sound silly.. but do you have any suggestions on how to acquire such small amounts of the cold cuts? Do you just go to the deli and have them cut 1 or 2 slices?
Tammy Kresge says
Yes I have done that. You pay you say 🙂
Bethany says
I made these and used sundried tomato vinaigrette because that’s what I had and it tastes like PIZZA! Delicious!!
Olivia Cagle says
This looks amazing! I’m going to try it this week!
Susan says
This sounds delicious! I’m looking forward to trying it out.