Jello Cottage Cheese Salad
on Mar 07, 2022, Updated Jan 29, 2024
Jello Cottage Cheese Salad is a creamy, fluffy sweet salad that’s perfect for spring and summer. Tastes great topped with fresh strawberries!
You can make this Jello Salad with all your favorite flavors: strawberry, lime, raspberry, or orange! For some other orange desserts, try our No Bake Orange Creamsicle Cheesecake or our Orange Creamsicle Dip.
Jello Cottage Cheese Salad
This recipe might sound… odd to some folks. Chances are, a lot of you have heard of or even had a Jello Salad before. But why would you mix Jello and cottage cheese of all things? All I can say is if you’ve never tried Jello Salad with Cottage Cheese, then you have to try our recipe for Cottage Cheese Jello Salad at least once!
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It’s definitely one of the odder flavor combos that works really well- like french fries in milkshake. Cottage cheese has this creamy and salty flavor too it that pairs really well with some other sweet ingredients- like pineapple and Jello. With spring and summer coming up, this cool sweet-and-salty dessert is going to be great! You really have to try it: we went with strawberry Jell-O this time around- I think it works the best- but you could use a bunch of other flavors. Trust us, you’re going to love this one!
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Cottage Cheese Jello Salad Ingredients
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Jell-O Mix – We used the strawberry flavor for this recipe. Feel free to try this recipe using lime, orange, or raspberry Jello and see how it works out!
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Crushed Pineapple – The canned crushed pineapple will work great here. Just make sure you drain the pineapple real well.
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Cottage Cheese – Large curd cottage cheese can work in this recipe but small curd cottage cheese is going to give your salad the best texture.
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Frozen Whipped Topping – Like Cool Whip.
How to make Jello Salad with Cottage Cheese
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Drain juice off of pineapple before mixing everything except whipped topping in one bowl.
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Add in frozen whipped topping and fold together with other ingredients until combined.
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Optionally garnish with sliced strawberries before serving.
We’re going to start off by mixing everything except for the Cool Whip together. Make sure you’ve drained the pineapple before adding it to the bowl with the cottage cheese and Jell-O powder. Mix those all together until you get a consistent, lump mix. To that, we’re going to add our frozen whipped topping.
Start folding the whipped topping and the other ingredients together until you get a consistent and fluffy Jello salad. Feel free to garnish with some strawberries before serving and enjoying!
Jello Cottage Cheese Salad
Ingredients
- 1 box Strawberry Jell-O Gelatin Mix, 3 oz
- 20 oz Crushed Pineapple, drained
- 16 oz Cottage Cheese
- 8 oz Frozen Whipped Topping, thawed
Instructions
- Drain juice from pineapple.
- In a large bowl, combine drained pinepple, cottage cheese and gelatin powder.
- Mix until powder in dissolved and well mixed.
- Fold in whipped topping until blended.
- Chill until ready to serve.
Nutrition
I’ve made this salad for years using different combinations of Jello.
My family loves it! It’s one that you eat at the counter out of the counter! Ha!
This is easy and tasty. Best with 6 ounces lime jello and a handful of mini marshmallows folded in after the cool whip. Often at our table.
This sounds delicious but I have a question. Do you use crushed pineapple in syrup or juice?
Hi Patrica! Either would work for this Jello Salad recipe. We usually purchase syrup as it adds a bit more flavor. I hope you enjoy it. It’s a great salad.
My Grandma made this with Orange Jello or Pineapple/Orange Jello
Hi Kathleen! Pineapple and Orange is a perfect flavor combination.
I make mine With orange Jell-O, pineapple tidbits, and Mandarin oranges. I call it bath tub salad because I can make it in any hotel for family reunions.
I make more ice with orange jello, pineapple tidbits, and drained mandarin oranges. I call it bathtub salad as I can make this in any hotel for family reunions.
Hi Ciara! Thanks much for the idea. I have a family reunion this summer. It will be great for an easy potluck side dish. I had not thought about it being so simple that I could make it while in a hotel.
This side dish it the perfect treat for me .I use sugar free Jello ,fat free cool whip
,low fat cottage cheese and top with fresh strawberries .I feel like I had a treat and still stayed with in my calorie allowance .Thanks so much for sharing
This Cottage Cheese Salad is just like my grandmother use to make. She always made it with Orange but, I tried the strawberry for a dinner side dish and it is just as delicious. It’s a quick and easy salad that I plan to make over and over again.
wooow .. it surely looks yum! I haven’t tried this at home before but surely would like to try. Thanks for sharing it with us at #OMHGWW
Yum, I am going to have to pin this one!
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A friend of mine made this for a baby shower and I had to have the recipe. It is so good. I like that you can change it up by using any flavor Jello you want.
My favorite summer salad! Delicious!