Tasty Tuesday: Layered Beef Salad On-The-Go

The New Year is a time for resolutions. Those resolutions often revolve around improving your health and fitness, kicking bad habits or mending/strengthening relationships. Well our challenge to you is to embrace all three of those categories with one grocery item- lean beef! It can help improve your health, power your fitness, kick unhealthy eating habits with great taste and bring families around the dinner table. That sounds like a recipe for a flavorful life, and that's what lean beef can offer you this New Year! 

Don't leave those resolutions behind when you head back to school or work! Take them with you with this week's #TastyTuesday recipe for Layered Beef Salad On-The-Go! It's healthy, delicious and mobile! New Year. New You. Lean Beef.

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Layered Beef Salad On-The-Go

Total Recipe Time: 15 to 20 minutes
Makes 1 serving

Ingredients

• 3 ounces cooked lean beef (such as Top Sirloin Steak, Strip Steak, Tenderloin Steak or Flank Steak), cut into slices
• 3 cups mixed salad greens or chopped romaine lettuce
• 1/2 cup assorted vegetables (such as shredded carrots, sliced cucumber, grape tomatoes, sliced radish, sugar snap peas)
• 1/4 cup cooked small pasta, rinsed drained chickpeas or Great Northern beans

Dressing:

• 1/4 cup Greek or plain nonfat yogurt
• 1 teaspoon honey
• 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon chipotle pepper sauce
• 1/8 teaspoon ground cumin
• 2 teaspoons orange juice
• 1/8 teaspoon salt

Instructions

1. Combine dressing ingredients in bottom of medium container or small bowl with lid.
2. Layer salad greens, vegetables, pasta or beans and beef on top of dressing. Close lid securely or cover bowl tightly with plastic wrap; refrigerate until ready to use.
3. Before serving, shake covered container to coat salad well.

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