Cottage Cheese Jello Salad
Created by lovinretirement on November 15, 2012
- Servings: 7
- Prep Time: 20m
- Cook Time: 5m
- Recipe #6955
Ingredients
- 1 (6 ounce) package lime jello
- 2 cups boiling water
- 1 (15 ounce) can crushed pineapple, well drained, but save the juice)
- 1 (16 ounce) tub of large curd cottage cheese
- 1 cup mayonnaise
- 1 cup celery, chopped small
- 1 cup walnuts, chopped medium
How to Make
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Step 1: Drain pineapple, reserving liquid. Dissolve jello in 2 cups boiling water. Add enough cold water to reserved pineapple juice to make 1 1/2 cups. Stir into dissolved jello. Put into refrigerator and thicken slightly till it's the consistency of regular yogurt. Then beat with an electric mixer until frothy.
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Step 2: Beat in the cottage cheese just till incorporated. Then beat in the mayonnaise. Fold in the pineapple, celery and nuts. Chill in refrigerator until firm; at least 4 hours.
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Step 3: Serving suggestions: You could grill sliced pineapple thats been drizzled with honey and scoop the jello salad out with an ice cream scoop and place on grilled pineapple.
Nutritional Facts
- Serving Size: 1 (328.7 g)
- Calories 394.5
- Total Fat - 24.4 g
- Saturated Fat - 4.1 g
- Cholesterol - 27.8 mg
- Sodium - 645.3 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 34.5 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1.8 g
- Sugars - 19.6 g
- Protein - 12.9 g
- Calcium - 200.2 mg
- Iron - 1 mg
- Vitamin C - 24.3 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg