Cottage Cheese Fruit Salad • Kath Eats

This cottage cheese fruit salad isn’t your grandmother’s jello salad. Cottage cheese and berries are blended with coconut cream and chia seeds right into a mousse that’s excellent for a snack or wholesome dessert.

“That pink stuff” aka the jello fruit salad

You present as much as your 4th of July get together and see it on the potluck buffet. It’s the bowl of fruit, marshmallows, and nuts on the picnic. Sometimes it’s pink from strawberry jello or fruit cocktail and generally it’s orange from mandarin oranges. And generally it’s GREEN! It’s blended with cool whip, is a bowl of fluff, and generally has nuts (ew). You’re by no means reallllllyyyyy positive what inside. 

I do know you Southerners know what I’m speaking about!

Well this salad isn’t that. But it’s related! It’s additionally a type of foolish named recipes that somebody determined could be a “healthy side salad” but it surely’s significantly better suited on the dessert desk. Call it a salad or name it a dessert – both manner it’s delish!

This cottage cheese fruit salad will get it’s “jello” from chia seeds, it’s cool whip from coconut cream, and is manner more healthy for you utilizing contemporary natural berries and protein-packed cottage cheese!

It’s not jiggly and there aren’t any mysterious crunchy bits. It’s just about a cheesecake-ish fruit mousse with whip on high that’s excellent as a refreshing snack or wholesome dessert. 

Apparently that is the 12 months of cottage cheese!

I’m all for it. I really like cottage cheese, however I generally get a bit of weirded out by it. It’s a wierd love/hate relationship! I don’t often sit down and eat it plain, though I do prefer it plain, however extra typically I combine it into smoothies, oatmeal, and savory recipes – like tuna salad with cottage cheese. 

Cottage Cheese Fruit Salad

This cottage cheese salad recipe is so fast and straightforward to make! It takes all of 5 minutes to mix collectively and ideally an hour within the fridge to “gel,” though you may definitely eat it instantly. 

Ingredients 

• 1.5 cups contemporary fruit (berries are my go-to, however you too can use contemporary or crushed pineapple, bananas, or stone fruits)
• 16 ounce container full-fat cottage cheese
• 2 tbsp chia seeds
• Can of full fats coconut milk, drained
• 1-3 tbsp top quality maple syrup
• Fresh cherries for garnish

How To Make Fruit Salad With Cottage Cheese

Step 1: make coconut cream

Open can of coconut milk and drain off liquid (you might want to make use of a spoon to poke a gap). The extra you drain it, the thicker will probably be and should you’d prefer it to be probably the most whipped cream like, you may whip it with a whisk or mixer. 

Scoop coconut cream right into a bowl and stir in 1 tbsp maple syrup.

Step 2: Blend the fruit, cottage cheese, chia and three/4 of the coconut cream collectively

Add washed fruit, cottage cheese, 3/4 of coconut whip, and chia seeds to a blender and mix till mixed. Keep remaining coconut whip for topping.

Step 3: Portion into glasses and high with remaining whip

Portion into jars or glasses, evenly distribute remaining coconut whip, and high with contemporary cherries.

Step 4: Chill for an hour within the fridge to permit chia to set

You can take pleasure in instantly, however a pleasant chill will assist the salad arrange. 

Recipe Notes

What fruits go greatest with cottage cheese?

All sorts of fruit will work with this cottage cheese recipe, however my favorites are berries, banana, tropical fruits like mangos, or stone fruits like peaches and cherries. The extra flavorful the fruit the higher (which is why folks typically you concentrated canned fruits in related recipes!) The fruits I might keep away from are watery or crunchy fruits like watermelon and apples.

Adjust The Sweetness

You can management the sweetness primarily based on which fruits you select and the way a lot maple syrup you add. I wish to sweeten the coconut cream, however depart the syrup out of the bottom. But should you’re feeding this to youngsters, they may like just a few tablespoons of maple within the salad base to stability out the tang from the cottage cheese. 

Use full-fat elements

For the very best taste and texture, use full-fat cottage cheese and coconut milk. While you may sub in a lighter fats cottage cheese, you do want the full-fat coconut to make the cream. Lite coconut milk will solely be liquid. 

How to serve your cottage cheese fruit salad

For the potluck model, serve household model in a bowl with a spoon. People can dollop it onto their plates at a picnic or cookout. If you’d like, you may fold in marshmallows, pecans, canned fruit, and all of your outdated time favorites! 

How to retailer your fruit salad

Be positive to maintain this recipe chilled, and take it in a cooler to a picnic. If the bottom separates, simply give it a very good stir to combine it again collectively. 

Enjoy!

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