Festive Cranberry-Pineapple Salad

"I found this in my Sunday paper. I haven't tried it yet, but am planning on making it for Thanksgiving dinner. Sounds de-lish!"
 
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Ready In:
5hrs 15mins
Ingredients:
5
Yields:
7 cups
Serves:
14
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ingredients

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directions

  • Drain pineapple, reserving liquid in 1-quart liquid measuring cup. Remove 1 tablespoons of the crushed pineapple, set aside for garnish. Add enough cold water to the reserved liquid to measure 3 cups; pour into large saucepan. Bring to boil; remove from heat. Add gelatin; stir at least 2 minute until completely dissolved. Add cranberry sauce; stir (gelatin mixture should be thick. Pour into large bowl.
  • Refrigerate 1-1/2 hours or until slightly thickened (consistency of unbeaten egg whites).
  • Stir in remaining pineapple, apples and walnuts; stir gently. Pour into medium serving bowl.
  • Refrigerate 4 hours or until firm. Top with reserved crushed pineapple just before serving. Store leftover gelatin in refrigerator.
  • Cooking time would actually be refrigeration time.

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Reviews

  1. I found this 8 or 9 years ago and it is truly outstanding. Found it in a free little booklet of recipes at my local market. We enjoyed it with our holiday dinner and the leftover was eaten like a dessert. The picture with my recipe shows 3 thin slices of apple with the tbsp of pineapple over one end of the slices and then a sprig of mint was added to the garnish. My recipe calls for 2 packages of the jell-o, I think with just one box, the 3 cups of liquid would be too much.
     
  2. Oh, this stuff is so good. I think our family got it off the back of some DOLE foods package. Great for Thaksgiving.
     
  3. My mom made this for Thanksgiving and it was wonderful!! My kids hate nuts of any kind and they pigged out on it. Thanks so much for posting!
     
  4. My mother-in-law made this and it is amazing!
     
  5. SO good. I made this for Thanksgiving and even the people who hate one or the other of the main ingredients ate this thing up. I felt bad because we were at my aunt-in-laws and she made a jello thing, and no one at hers. OOPS!!! Oh well, I will make this one a tradition
     
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Tweaks

  1. It's the only time I ever make Jello salads, but it is a tradition around here to have one on the Thanksgiving dinner table. The one I have made for several years is very similar to this one, but calls for lemon Jello instead of raspberry, a can of jellied cranberry sauce in addition to the can of whole-berry, and pecans rather than walnuts. I decided to try this one this year and the raspberry flavor was a nice change. I did go ahead and use pecans, rather than walnuts, but otherwise followed the recipe (using a Granny Smith apple). I personally didn't think the tablespoon of crushed pineapple would make a very attractive garnish, so I didn't use it. Thanks for posting!
     

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I'm married and have 2 children and 1 new grandson born April 19th 2005. I am a foster mother who takes in children between the ages of 7 and 14. My 12 yr. old son was a foster child that we adopted. We have 6 cats and a black lab/golden retriever mix dog. In my spare time (rare) I like to crochet and read and look for ethnic recipes on Recipezaar for the foster kids.
 
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