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Watergate Salad
"This is my Mom's recipe It's my favorite "dessert" type salad and we have it at every holiday dinner. (I put the chill time in the cook time category.)"
- Ready In:
- 1hr 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Serves:
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6-8
ingredients
- 1 (15 1/2 ounce) can crushed pineapple
- 1 (3 ounce) package pistachio pudding mix
- 1 (9 ounce) carton Cool Whip
- 1⁄2 cup chopped nuts (preferrably pecans)
- 3 bananas, diced
- 1 cup miniature marshmallow
- 1⁄2 cup maraschino cherry, cut in small pieces
directions
- Put pineapple with juice in a bowl.
- Stir in pudding mix.
- Mix well.
- Stir in remaining ingredients.
- Chill until ready to serve, at least 1 hour.
Questions & Replies
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Instant pudding or regular??
Reviews
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This is great to serve for a holiday sidedish.Its easy and it tastes so good! We love it! I toss the bananas in a little lemon juice to keep them from turning brown otherwise don't change a thing. Great recipe! Thanks for sharing. :) -
you just brought back a thousand memories of the church-lady potlucks I went to with grandma as a little girl! This stuff without the bananas ("pistachio fluff" in Bellevue, Ohio) was always my favorite! Thanks for the recipe!!! -
very easy-very good.I will make this again. -
yummmy!! made today for cookout. the only thing i left out was the cherries...didnt have any..i also served it with angel food cake (charlotte j )....went real well together...thanks!!
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This is exactly the recipe that my grandma has made for years at all our family dinners, it has always been a family favorite dish. My uncle always requests it, and I love it too, my brother and I when we were kids used to try to get a scoop with the cherry in it. It's just not a family dinner without a big bowl of fluffy Watergate Salad.
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Tweaks
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Thanks for the recipe; I made it for St. Patricks. Instead of using pistachio pudding I used vanilla and then in order to make it green I colored the Cool Whip. My mom didn't want maraschino cherries so I substituted the only other fruit we had which was strawberries. It gave it a different texture and taste but still tasted fine. The only thing I might change is less nuts because that created a crunch where one thought the salad would be soft and smooth. So with less it would give it a different texture and probably wouldn't alter the taste too much. -
I made this for St. Patrick's day and my DH loved it. I used the mandarin oranges in place of the bananas. Didn't have the cherries but it was really good anyway.
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I make this all the time for gatherings. Everyone loves it! I use mandarin oranges instead of bananas. I will try bananas next time. Thank you for posting it!
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