There are many types of jello recipes, including jello cake, jello cheesecake and jello salad. However, if the word salad conjures up pictures of lettuce and tomato, you might be wondering what a jello salad is exactly.
To make jello salad recipes means to combine jello with other ingredients. These ingredients could be cream cheese, whipped cream, fruit, pretzels, nuts, grated carrot, marshmallows, or anything else you fancy. If you are using gelatin sheets instead of fruit flavored jello, you might want to make a savory jello salad with vegetables, mayonnaise and fish or meat, rather than a sweet one.
Jello salads were popular in the 1950s and savory dishes like tomato aspic were used as an impressive table centerpiece, as well as a meal. Sweet jello salads like cherry jello, coca cola, and black cherries also date back fifty or sixty years. A lot of people like to make old-fashioned jello recipes for nostalgia's sake and for the fact that it takes them back to childhood when their mother or grandmother would lovingly prepare such a dish.
Types of Jello Salads
Jello salads are still popular today because not only are they incredibly versatile and suit all different kinds of ingredients but they are economical to make as well. Perhaps you could make a sweet jello salad with pineapple jello, whipped cream, chopped nuts, and thawed raspberries. This would be a crunchy, creamy, and delicious treat.
You can use whipped cream, cream cheese, cottage cheese or a mixture of these to make your salad creamier. What about adding some vanilla pudding too?
For a savory jello salad recipe, you can choose from mayonnaise, cream, or salad dressing for a creamy finish or simply serve it clear by combining gelatin and vegetables and allowing the dish to set.
Handy Jello Salad Tips
Whether you are making plain jello or a
fluffy jello dessert you have to take care with the liquid you add to the jello. Adding too little can make your jello tough and adding too much can make it runny or, worse still, it will not set. You can be more creative with jello salads and throw in whichever other ingredients you like. Adding an extra couple of tablespoons of cream or ten extra blackberries is not going to make much difference to the finished dessert. You can experiment with marshmallows, chocolate, candies and anything else you want to try.
Why not make substitutions in the jello salad recipe you are following? You can try switching the cherries for strawberries or the whipped cream for vanilla yogurt or cream cheese. You might come up with a brand new favorite dessert if you are creative.
You can use individual serving dishes, one big serving dish, or an elaborate shaped jello mold to serve the finished dish. If you are using chunky pieces in your jello salad recipe or a clear jello, a glass dish or shapely jello mold is a good idea so you can see the different pieces suspended inside the jello.
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