Jello Recipes
Apricot Flavored Cottage Cheese and Jello Salad
This cottage cheese and jello salad is simple to prepare and makes a tasty addition to any main salad. Alternatively, it can be served as an appetizer or a snack. Jello salad recipes vary widely in their ingredients and the apricot in this jello salad recipe gives a sweet, tangy flavor to a savory dish.
A lot of apricot recipes are for desserts but this apricot cottage cheese recipe is a deliciously different salad treat and is very healthy, thanks to the fruit content. The lemon juice adds a sharp flavor and the mayonnaise makes this cottage cheese and jello salad recipe extra creamy. Do not add the apricots until the jello salad has thickened up a bit, else they will sink to the bottom. Once you have added them, expect the apricot cottage cheese salad to take about three hours to set.
You can use a different flavor of jello if you want and pretty much any flavor of jello would work with this apricot cottage cheese salad. Fresh apricot recipes are wonderful at any time of the year but they are especially delightful in the spring or summer.
Apricot Cottage Cheese Salad with Lemon Juice
Ingredients -
3 oz pack apricot jello
7 oz can apricot halves
12 oz cottage cheese
½ cup mayonnaise
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 cup boiling water
Mint leaves, for garnish
Preparation:
Dissolve the jello powder in the boiling water.
Drain the apricots, keeping 1/2 cup of the syrup.
Chop them up.
Add the lemon juice and reserved apricot syrup to the jello mixture, then stir in the cottage cheese and beat in the mayonnaise.
Chill until it is a bit thicker, and then stir in the apricots.
Chill the jello salad until it is firm, then unmold it and garnish it with the mint leaves.
