Green Jello Salad With Cottage Cheese And Pineapple

Remove the bowl from the fridge and stir in the cottage cheese and cool whip stirring until well blended.

Green jello salad with cottage cheese and pineapple. Jell o gelatin mayonnaise crushed pineapple liquid cottage cheese and 2 more orange jello salad a mom s take mandarin oranges jello cottage cheese cool whip. Grandma s lime green jello salad recipe with cottage cheese pineapple is a retro recipe that my husband s grandma made for many holiday meals to continue with the tradition i make this lime jello salad every thanksgiving and sometimes for christmas too. Crushed pears or mandarin oranges in place of pineapple.

Mix in the cottage cheese and pineapple. Add the lime jell o mixes to the boiling pineapple juice water and stir until dissolved. Pour into pot and bring just to a boil.

Put the jello in the refrigerator until it is partially set. In a large multi cup measuring cup i use my 4 cup pyrex add all of the reserved pineapple juice and then add enough water to the juice to make a total of 2 cups. Set the bowl in the refrigerator to set for about 2 hours.

Cottage cheese instead of or in addition to cream cheese. A vintage gelatin salad that s a longstanding holiday favorite in many families this lime and lemon salad mixes crushed pineapple with pecans cottage cheese and mayonnaise in a sweet creamy crunchy combination. Combine the dry lime jello mandarin oranges and pineapple or fruit cocktail in a bowl.

How to make cottage cheese jello salad. The amount of ingredients seem to not matter much because i often forget how much jello or cream cheese etc to use but it always tastes great. You literally just combine a can of drained crushed pineapple don t forget to drain the juice off or your salad will end up soupy a carton of cottage cheese and a box of your favorite jello flavor.

One of the best things about this quick and easy recipe is that you don t even need to measure anything. Mix the jello according to directions on the box using all of the pineapple juice as the liquid adding enough water if needed to make the right amount on package. I ve seeing so many awesome variations out there with or without nuts with or without pineapple with or without cottage cheese and the list goes on and on.