St. Patrick's Day Cottage Cheese Salad

This is easy and can also serve as a dessert. A variation of my Strawberry Fluff, this one uses lime Jell-O, mandarins and coconut -- the colors of the Irish flag!

• Ready In: 10 mins
• Serves: 6-8

Ingredients

• 16  ounces small curd cottage cheese
• 3  ounces lime Jell-O gelatin
• 8  ounces Cool Whip, thawed
• 15  ounces mandarin oranges, well-drained
• 1⁄4 cup sweetened flaked coconut

Directions

1. Spoon cottage cheese into large bowl. Sprinkle jello powder onto cottage cheese, and mix well (be sure to scrape bottom of bowl). Gently fold in well-drained mandarin oranges and Cool Whip.
2. Place in serving dish, and top with flaked coconut. Chill overnight.