WebHow to Make Ambrosia Salad Use a hand mixer to mix the cream cheese in a large bowl until it is smooth. Add the sour cream and mix again until combined. Add the …
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This ambrosia salad recipe is a favorite family holiday side made with a mixture of tropical fruit and marshmallows bathed in a sweet and tangy whipped sour cream. Place the pineapple and mandarin oranges in a strainer and set aside to drain for 30 minutes to 1 hour. Drain the cherries and rinse with cold water and set aside.
If you’re not familiar with ambrosia, it’s a unique, sweet fruit salad that combines pineapple, cherries, and oranges with a sprinkling of mini marshmallows, coconut, and pecans. The whole thing gets dressed in a creamy sour cream dressing.
Lazy Daisy Salad is a 1950s Ambrosia Fruit Salad using vanilla pudding and cool whip to jazz up canned mandarins, crushed pineapple and fruit cocktail. The sweet concoction is topped off with coconut and chopped pecans for added pizzazz. Drain the fruit cocktail and mandarin oranges.
Any barbecue will benefit from having ambrosia salad as a side. It adds a sweet to the savory main meal. Chili. Don’t limit ambrosia salad to summer barbecues. It is an excellent side dish for chicken chili. Can You Freeze Ambrosia Salad? All the fruits in ambrosia salad freeze and thaw just fine. The problem with freezing the salad is the sauce.