Orange Jello Salad with Cottage Cheese is a fun and fruity addition to your next picnic or BBQ.
This Orange Jello Salad with Cottage Cheese is a family favorite. Someone in my extended family will make it to bring to all family functions. It is so easy, and comes together quickly. It’s so easy that we teach the young kids how to make it so they feel like they are contributing to family functions when they make it.
What you’ll need to make Orange Jello Salad with Cottage Cheese:
- Cottage Cheese
- Mandarin Oranges
- Package of Orange Jell-O
- Pineapple Tidbits
- Whipped Topping
First you will add your Orange Jell-O and cottage cheese into the bowl and mix until the Jell-O has dissolved.
Next, add in the pineapple tidbits and the mandarine oranges. Mix well.
Last, add in the whipped topping and mix well.
Refrigerate for 1 hour.
- 1 large package of Orange Jello
- 1 24 oz carton of Cottage Cheese
- 1 20 oz can crushed pineapple or pineapple tidbits, well drained (I use the tidbits)
- 1 15 oz can mandarin oranges, well drained
- 1 16 oz carton of Cool Whip
- Mix orange Jello and cottage cheese together until the Jello has dissolved into the cottage cheese.
- Add pineapple and mandarine oranges and stir in.
- Add the Cool Whip and mix all together until well blended.
- Refrigerate for at least an hour before serving so it can firm up.
I always plan on making a lot for family gatherings, so I use the large size of all the ingredients. If you are planning on making this for a smaller group, just use the smaller size of Jell-O, and everything else. This recipe is really easy to scale down.
Hope you enjoy this one as much as we do.
Here are some other salad recipes you may like:
Lemon Tarragon Pasta Salad with Chicken
This reminds me of Watergate Salad. I will have to try this!
My daughter made fun of me for making Jello salad. But she had two servings of this one! Everyone at dinner liked it. Very good and very easy.
Sharon I’m so glad you tried it and everyone liked it. We had it on Christmas Eve as well and it was perfect for that meal. It’s a keeper!
How many servings does the Orange Jello salad recipe make?
Do you drain the oranges & pineapple ?
Yes, you’ll want to drain those.
This I have made for years. Delicious.
I too would like to make it for a funeral dinner of 170 people. Can you tell me how many a reg receipe makes?
Oh, I’d say you’d be safe thinking 1 batch could serve 20 people. So maybe 8 or 9 times the recipe.
I have made this for years but I add sour cream to mine,what a difference, it makes the salad really creamy…..try it…you’ll like it!
Ok I’m gonna have to try this.
How much sour cream?
I have heard of this recipe with the sour cream and it’s a 16oz please correct me if I’m wrong but that’s how we do it to this day
Wow! This is a unique recipe you have shared. I had never heard about it before. Quite interesting. I will try it this weekend. Hopefully, I will make it well, and my family would love it. Fingers crossed.
My 8th grade Home Economics teacher taught our class how to make this back in the early 80’s. The only difference was that our recipe did not include the pineapple. My family LOVED and requested this salad often back in those days, and I was always in charge of making it. Makes me so happy to know it is still being made and enjoyed. Haven’t had it in a long time, but now I’ve got the craving!
I make this with lime jello minus the mandarin oranges. My mothers been making it since the 70’s, one of my favorites!
It has been around for ages right? One of our family favorites as well. 🙂
Do You prepar the jello according to box instructions first or do u use the dry mix with the cottage cheese
Just dump in the dry mix.