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Our cute Grandma A. is an amazing cook! Many of our best recipes are from her kitchen. This fruit salad was a staple at most family get-togthers and the best part about it is that you don't have to have any experience in the kitchen to whip it up! It is just a matter of dumping five ingredients in a bowl and mixing it together. It is a perfect side dish to any meal or is great to take to any pot-luck dinner (it can easily be doubled or tripled). There are SO many variations of this salad (I included a couple below), but I like the original way my Grandma makes it best.
Grandma's Five Cup Creamy Fruit Salad
Ingredients:
1 (11 ounce) can mandarin oranges, drained
1 (8 ounce) can crushed pineapple, drained
1-2 cups miniature marshmallows
1 cup flaked coconut
1 cup sour cream (light works great)*
*Don't be scared of the sour cream! I know it sounds weird. I promise that all the sweetness from the other ingredients evens it all out. It's delicious!
Directions:
Make sure your fruit is VERY well-drained or you will have a watery salad. Combine the oranges, pineapple, marshmallows, coconut, and sour cream. Stir until all mixed together. Refrigerate for 4-8 hours before serving.
Variations:
-Use vanilla yogurt in place of sour cream.
-Use Pina Colada yogurt in place of sour cream.
-Add 1/2 cup maraschino cherries.
-Add chopped pecans for a crunch.
-Top with corn flakes for a crunch.
-Use Cool-Whip in place of sour cream.
Want to try some of our Grandma's other recipes?
We have a similar recipe in our family, we call it Sunshine Salad, and we use cool whip, orange and pineapple jello as well as cottage cheese. Yours sounds delicious too!
ReplyDeleteThanks! I'm sitting here trying to finalize the menu for a family party this weekend. This sounds perfect!
ReplyDeleteA friend of mine brought five cups salad to a pot luck once - it was delicious! She also said the recipe was a family classic. I may just have to try making this. I wonder if plain greek yogurt would work in place of sour cream? I think probably!
ReplyDeleteThat looks so good!
ReplyDeleteYum! This it was one of my favourite foods as a kid, though our family recipe adds in green grapes :)
ReplyDeleteMom used to make this. I MUST make it and see what the husband thinks.
ReplyDeleteMy mom used to make it the exact same way and I now make it for our BBQ's. It spells Summer for me(:
ReplyDeleteThis was a family favorite growing up! We added chopped green apples and chopped Snickers bars to our's.
ReplyDeleteWoww :) This fruit salad looks so refreshing :) Thanks for sharing the Healthy Recipes
ReplyDeleteLooks yummy. I remember something similar at every family re-union.
ReplyDeleteMy mom always made this but without the coconut. The sour cream shouldn't worry anyone. If you let this refrigerate (even over night!) it picks up the sugars from the fruits and the marshmallows! It's delicious!
ReplyDeleteMy grandmother always made this for us grandkids. She would add Acini de Pepe Pasta and called it Frog Eye Salad. It's still my favorite comfort food to this day.
ReplyDeleteI use Cool Whip instead of sour cream and we call it Ambrosia. One of our favorites! Thanks for sharing at Church Supper! Have a blessed week & come back soon ~EMM
ReplyDeleteThat looks terrific. I cannot wait to try this out. Come and visit us. We have some terrific recipes to share this week.
ReplyDeleteI have made this salad for about 20 years! I cannot eat any kind of fruit salad made with cool whip anymore. Sour cream makes it so much creamier. My husband (boyfriend at the time) didn't like coconut, so I substituted the coconut for apples. It's yummy and adds a great crunch. =)
ReplyDeleteI have made this salad for about 20 years! I cannot eat any kind of fruit salad made with cool whip anymore. Sour cream makes it so much creamier. My husband (boyfriend at the time) didn't like coconut, so I substituted the coconut for apples. It's yummy and adds a great crunch. =)
ReplyDeleteWe have a variation in our family, too! We use mandarins, pineapple chunks, marshmallows, and marischino cherries with sour cream.
ReplyDeleteThat is how we do it too, and we call it "happy salad"! :)
DeleteWe use cool whip AND sour cream. Oh, and marischino cherries are a must. Sometimes my mom would add bananas, but I think they get too mushy.
ReplyDeleteJust saw this on Pinterest and had to check it out...it's the exact same recipe that my family calls "Aunt Frieda's Marshmallow Salad"! Aunt Frieda was my great aunt and my dad says she was old when he was a kid! She could down a beer like no one's business and you'd better keep your hands away from the car door when she was slamming it closed! Aunt Frieda would make it every Sunday to bring to the family lake house and it was the best thing ever. People hear the ingredients and think yuck but it is really good. Thanks for sharing it!
ReplyDeleteThanks! I'm sitting here trying to finalize the menu for a family party this weekend. This sounds perfect!
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I love it when people make this but I can never have it. I'm allergic to coconut. Consider making it without coconut if you are going to a party. You'd be surprised how many people are actually allergic. I like to volunteer to make it and I bring a little container of coconut because someone will usually say, "Oh, I love this. Wait! Who forgot to put in the coconut?" This way they can add their own.
ReplyDeleteSour Cream?! I'm gonna have to try this! My mom made a similar one that I loooove. Mandarin oranges, mini mallows, cool whip, and a packet of orange Jello (still in powdered form!). We never have leftovers when she made it. :)
ReplyDeleteI make this with mandarin oranges, peach chunks, mini marshmallows, pecans, cool whip & cottage cheese. It's my Hubby's all time favorite.
ReplyDeleteI make this with mandarin oranges, peach chunks, mini marshmallows, pecans, cool whip & cottage cheese. It's my Hubby's all time favorite.
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