How about a little pistachio lovin’?? My brother, my mom, and I all share a love for pistachios. Especially pistachio ice cream. Ohemgee, that stuff is divine. We could eat a whole carton of it, no questions asked! When I saw the recipe for this pistachio pudding salad, I knew it was right up my alley.
I found this in a school cookbook from when I was in second grade and man, those second graders sure have good taste. I found all kinds of little gems in there! Like a low-fat shake recipe?? I don’t know what kind of 8 year olds are worried about their food being low-fat, but I would sure love to thank them for it! For now though, I’m going to enjoy this delicious {not low-fat} pistachio pudding salad and I hope you do too!
Pistachio Pudding Salad
Ingredients
- 20 oz crushed pineapple
- 3.4 oz pistachio pudding dry
- 8 oz whipped topping
- 1 cup miniature marshmallows
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans or pistachios
Instructions
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Drain the pineapple juice into a large bowl.
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Mix pudding and juice for 2 minutes.
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Fold in the whipped topping, pineapple, marshmallows and pecans.
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Chill until ready to serve.
It was everything I could do to keep Zachary from snitching here and there, so that we had enough pudding to take a picture. It tastes absolutely delish and would be an awesome side for your Thanksgiving dinner!
-Sarah
Just need a clarification. The recipe says to drain the juice and then to combine this juice with the pudding. It does not mention adding the crushed pineapple. I’m assuming it gets added into the salad?
step #3. . . Fold in whipped topping, pineapple, marshmallows and pecans.
Hahaaha you should add this to our weekly link up THAT just happened… it’s a link up for all of these kinds of stories 🙂
Oops, I should probably tell you it’s on Thursdays!
Oh, we call this Watergate Salad in the South. Yummo!
This has always been one of my favorites. You don’t even have to drain it, we add the whole can of pineapple and pudding together, stir a bit then fold in the CoolWhip and marshmallows. I’ve never added extra nuts. You can use sugar free pudding and/or fat free or sugar free CoolWhip and it does help make it slightly better. But yes I love it and have actually tried making a cake version of it but it still needs some tweaking.
I made something just like this and could eat the whole thing! Ours has red spanish peanuts and apples but no pistachio pudding. SO DELICIOUS!
What happened to me question?
Hi Kay, I have comment moderation on my blog, so the comments don’t publish until I ok them. I’m sorry I forgot about the pineapple though! I’ve fixed the recipe. Thank you for bringing that to my attention!! 🙂
Oh no you poor thing LOL well at least the one guy told you about the sheet on your butt before you went into the store 🙂
On another note the pudding looks nummy!
When does the pineapple get added?? Step 3? Thanks for all your excellent recipes
Don’t know what happened, but my question is do you add the pineapple in step 3? Thank you
Sorry Donna, I moderate my comments, so they don’t publish until I ok them. But yes, you do add it in step three! Sorry for the confusion! I’ve fixed the recipe, so it’s good to go!
Why add pecans instead of pistachios?
Oh, I didn’t even think of that! The pudding has pistachios in it, but feel free to sub the pecans for pistachios if you’d like! What a good idea 🙂
I love pistachios. This looks sooo good. Oh geez, sorry about your embarrassing sitiation.
I had to crack up at that story. Last weekend I was running an errand in my sister’s car…well needless to say I got paged minutes after running into Target asking that I come back to my car. Apparently I didn’t put the car in gear…not used to driving a stick shift in years…and my car rolled a few feet in front of the space. Thank goodness people were tailgating for the Ravens game and they were able to stop it. Ha! I just got in my car and drove away quickly. I was really lucky it didn’t damage anything or anyone. I guess I’m lucky that tailgaters usually don’t have the best memories of the days events usually.
I featured this on my 12 super summer sides round-up- come check it out! Thanks for all you do Sarah! XOXOXOXOXXOxoxo-Brook
http://cookandcraftmecrazy.blogspot.com/2013/05/12-super-summer-sides-round-up.html
Do you have to make pudding first
Hey Lisa! No, you just mix the pudding mix and the pineapple juice together. 🙂
When I make this recipe I also use mandarin oranges, and depending on who I’m serving it to, flaked coconut.
One of my favorite, easy recipes!
I actually don’t have a comment. But have a question? If you add pistachios to the salad, should you use unsalted pistachios. I was thinking lightly salted pistachios might give it that sweet and salty flavor but not sure. Need to make it right away so if you could answer as soon as possible I would really appreciate it
Thank you,
Dawn by
Can you make this a day in advance?