Cottage Cheese Fruit Salad

Terri F.'s Note:

This is a light fruit salad that goes well with chicken or pork. The cottage cheese keeps it from being overly sweet. Please note prep time includes chilling time. Kids like this, too!

• Total Time: 3 hrs
• Prep Time: 3 hrs
• Cook Time: 0 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 8

• 1 (16 ounce) container small curd cottage cheese
• 1 (3 ounce) box Jello gelatin, any flavor (we like raspberry)
• 1 (8 ounce) container Cool Whip
• 1 (15 ounce) can fruit cocktail or 1 (15 ounce) can any fruit, drained
• 1/2 cup walnuts (optional) or 1/2 cup pecans, chopped (optional)

Directions:

1. Mix together cottage cheese and dry jello.
2. Add the Cool Whip and mix thoroughly.
3. Add fruit cocktail and nuts (if desired) and mix.
4. Chill for at least 3 hours before serving.

Reviews

[Rose is Rose]

This turned out to be light and delicious! We didn't think it was overly sweet at all. I used strawberry jello, fruit cocktail, and small English walnut pieces. Terri F., thank you for the recipe! It's a keeper!!

[Buster's friend]

Subbed a cup of full fat sour cream plus 1/4 cup plain kefir for the Cool Whip to avoid the hydrogenated palm kernel oil (blech). Used parfait glasses and poured a layer of sugar-free orange gelatin mixed per usual instructions. Once it set, split a can of light syup drained mandarin oranges between the 4 glasses. Made the smush using sugar - free orange gelatin. Plenty sweet w/o so much empty carb. Pretty and filling Keeper. Will try w/peach gelatin and canned peaches next w/same layering.

[StephanieNS]

This was very good, but it just seemed too sweet to me with the addition of the jell-o. Next time I guess I wouldn't add the whole packet. Also, it really didn't seem like it had enough fruit so next time I am going to add more. It comes out pretty mushy so I definitely recommend adding some kind of nuts into this; I added pecans and they were a great addition. I also added some miniature marshmallows.