This is an awesome “salad” that makes a great addition to holiday meals, we serve it at Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas in my family and it goes with supper as a side dish not as a dessert for us.
Ingredients You’ll Need:
- 1 9 oz container of cool whip
- 2 small boxes or 1 large of orange jello
- 1 container of cottage cheese
- 1 can crushed pineapple
- 1 can Mandarin Oranges
Let’s Whip it Up!
- Thaw Cool whip and pour into medium sized bowl.
- Drain and rinse cottage cheese. I put it in a colander in the sink and run water through it until it is just the curds.
- Mix the cottage cheese into the cool whip.
- Mix in the dry orange Jello powder.
- Drain the crushed pineapple. I put this in the colander in the sink as well and just shake it, mix into the salad.
- Drain the Mandarin oranges and cut into pieces 3 or 4 per orange piece. Save about 5 slices to garnish the top of the salad.
- Mix the sliced up orange piece into the salad. Garnish with remaining orange slices and refrigerate at least 4 hours but overnight is recommended.
Note: In mixing this salad be careful not to over mix or you will make it runny.
This recipe is courtesy of contributing cook, Jessi, from Jabbering Jessi Blog. I am the mom of 4 who loves to cook new things for my family as well as blog about my ins and outs of raising my family with a mix of reviews and giveaways in there.
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OMGoodness, I love this salad. It’s one of my favorites. I also love it with strawberry jello and no oranges. Yummy!
I’ve never had a salad like this but I guarantee with out a doubt we are trying this sometime this week! Thanks Jessi!
this is brining back memories…i think my grandmother made something like this, but she used fruit cocktail and I think she added coconut
I actually make something like this, minus the cottage cheese. Now I’m craving it
Will definitely try, thanks for the recipe 
Thanks all this salad is to die for Cat let me know what your family thinks of it.
Wow! This sounds amazing! I can already taste it! I’m gonna make it this week! YAY!
We’ll have to try this
Looks amazing! I need to start getting all these recipes down! I’m finding some absolutely great ones lately!
Sounds yummy–oranges are my favorite fruit.