How To Make Classic Ambrosia Salad
Ambrosia salad is a classic side dish that combines cherries, pineapples, mandarin oranges, coconut and pecans and tosses them in a rich cream sauce.
Preparation: 10 minutes
Cooking:
Chill Time: 1 hour
Total: 1 hour 10 minutes
Serves:
Ingredients
- 8ozcool whip,thawed
- ½cupsour cream
- 1canmandarin oranges,(15 oz), drained
- 1cupfresh pineapple,chopped
- ¾cupmaraschino cherries,without stems, sliced in half
- 3cupmarshmallows
- 1cupcoconut,shredded
- ¾cuppecans,chopped
Instructions
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In a large mixing bowl add thawed cool whip and sour cream and stir until combined. Add in the mandarin oranges, pineapple, cherries, marshmallows, coconut and pecans.
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Stir until combined and chill salad for at least 1 hour or overnight.
Nutrition
- Calories: 418.00kcal
- Fat: 25.75g
- Saturated Fat: 12.19g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 8.68g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 3.25g
- Carbohydrates: 47.66g
- Fiber: 4.04g
- Sugar: 35.30g
- Protein: 3.98g
- Cholesterol: 38.69mg
- Sodium: 36.49mg
- Calcium: 96.18mg
- Potassium: 244.63mg
- Iron: 0.98mg
- Vitamin A: 111.98µg
- Vitamin C: 18.13mg
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