Lime Cottage Cheese Salad A/K/A "green Gunk"
- Ready In:
- 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Serves:
-
6-8
ingredients
- 1 (20 ounce) can crushed pineapple, WELL DRAINED & juice reserved
- 1⁄2 cup chopped pecans
- 1 (16 ounce) container small curd cottage cheese
- 1 cup miniature marshmallow
- 1⁄2 - 1 cup water
- 2 (3 ounce) packages lime Jell-O gelatin
- 1 pint heavy whipping cream
directions
- Drain the pineapple very well (if there is any liquid left in the pineapple, the salad won't set up correctly); save the pineapple juice.
- Add enough water to the reserved pineapple juice to make 2 cups of liquid; place in a saucepan and bring to a boil.
- Place jello in a large mixing bowl and pour boiling pineapple juice over jello. Stir until fully dissolved.
- Place bowl in an ice bath for several minutes, then refrigerate until jello reaches honey consistency (DO NOT let it set up firm).
- While waiting on jello to reach proper consistency, whip whipping cream until peaks form.
- Also, while waiting on jello, in another bowl, combine cottage cheese, marshmallows, pecans, and pineapple and mix well.
- When jello reaches proper consistency, remove from refrigerator and whip until light and fluffy and about doubled in size.
- Fold cottage cheese mixture into jello.
- Fold whipped cream into jello mixture.
- Refrigerate for at least one hour, preferably overnight.
- Refrigerate leftovers (there won't be any!).
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I am a 30-something married professional with a 3 year old daughter. My DH is a warehouse unloader for a large retailer. When I'm not working, I love doing anything that means spending time with my family, even if it's as mundane as grocery shopping. I also love to cook and try new recipes (poor DH . . .he's my resident guinea pig!!), watch TV (DH and I are both sports nuts), and cross stitch. I used to love to curl up with a good book (mystery novels), but my job involves so much reading, that I have really gotten away from reading for pleasure in the past few years. We have 2 dogs, an Australian Shepherd and a German Shepherd. Aside from that, we're your typical boring American family.