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Orange Jello Salad with Cottage Cheese

by Becky · on June 13, 2017 · 18 Comments ·

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Orange Jello Salad with Cottage Cheese is a fun and fruity addition to your next picnic or BBQ.

Orange Jello Salad with Cottage Cheese

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

Orange Jello Salad with Cottage Cheese is a fun and fruity addition to your next picnic or BBQ.

First you will add your Orange Jell-O and cottage cheese into the bowl and mix until the Jell-O has dissolved.

Orange Jello Salad with Cottage Cheese is a fun and fruity addition to your next picnic or BBQ.

Next, add in the pineapple tidbits and the mandarine oranges. Mix well.

Orange Jello Salad with Cottage Cheese is a fun and fruity addition to your next picnic or BBQ.

Last, add in the whipped topping and mix well.

Orange Jello Salad with Cottage Cheese is a fun and fruity addition to your next picnic or BBQ.

Refrigerate for 1 hour.

Orange Jello Salad with Cottage Cheese
 
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Author: The Crafting Chicks
Recipe type: Salad
Ingredients
  • 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
Instructions
  1. Mix orange Jello and cottage cheese together until the Jello has dissolved into the cottage cheese.
  2. Add pineapple and mandarine oranges and stir in.
  3. Add the Cool Whip and mix all together until well blended.
  4. Refrigerate for at least an hour before serving so it can firm up.
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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.

Orange Jello Salad with Cottage Cheese

Hope you enjoy this one as much as we do.

Here are some other salad recipes you may like:

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Lemon Tarragon Pasta Salad with Chicken

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Spinach Tortellini Salad

Spinach Summer Salad

About Becky

Mother to 3 girls, love to craft and create. I love to be silly and play with my family. I also love pedicures, GNOs, Disneyland, and chocolate. Wanna know more about the Chicks? Click here. :)

Comments

  1. Tiff says

    June 22, 2017 at 8:36 am

    This reminds me of Watergate Salad. I will have to try this!

    Reply
  2. Sharon Jenkins says

    January 1, 2018 at 5:23 pm

    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.

    Reply
    • Becky says

      January 1, 2018 at 9:12 pm

      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!

      Reply
  3. Anne says

    July 12, 2018 at 8:31 am

    How many servings does the Orange Jello salad recipe make?

    Reply
  4. Shelley Martin says

    August 20, 2018 at 11:45 am

    Do you drain the oranges & pineapple ?

    Reply
    • Becky says

      August 20, 2018 at 5:31 pm

      Yes, you’ll want to drain those.

      Reply
  5. Carolyn Potts says

    October 30, 2019 at 8:16 pm

    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?

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    • Becky says

      October 31, 2019 at 2:05 pm

      Oh, I’d say you’d be safe thinking 1 batch could serve 20 people. So maybe 8 or 9 times the recipe.

      Reply
  6. Judi says

    November 19, 2019 at 10:44 pm

    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!

    Reply
    • Becky says

      November 22, 2019 at 5:50 pm

      Ok I’m gonna have to try this.

      Reply
    • Claire says

      March 26, 2021 at 10:22 pm

      How much sour cream?

      Reply
      • Lacey Radchenko says

        December 24, 2021 at 3:35 am

        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

        Reply
  7. Cheese Melter says

    May 16, 2020 at 5:49 am

    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.

    Reply
  8. Gretchen says

    April 3, 2021 at 7:31 pm

    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!

    Reply
  9. Lisa Novikoff says

    November 23, 2021 at 11:09 am

    I make this with lime jello minus the mandarin oranges. My mothers been making it since the 70’s, one of my favorites!

    Reply
    • Becky says

      November 23, 2021 at 2:31 pm

      It has been around for ages right? One of our family favorites as well. 🙂

      Reply
  10. Morgan Hatfield says

    December 24, 2021 at 2:45 am

    Do You prepar the jello according to box instructions first or do u use the dry mix with the cottage cheese

    Reply
    • Becky says

      December 24, 2021 at 7:19 am

      Just dump in the dry mix.

      Reply

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