Lime Jello Salad Recipe

by Elise
(Simplyrecipes.com)

This lime jello salad recipe is a special with pineapple, cucumber, and horseradish. This truly is a wonderful taste combination as strange as they may sound. It is a very easy lime jello salad recipe to make and the delicious ingredients go really well with the lime jello flavour.

Feel free to leave out the pineapples if you like. They are mainly for texture, rather than flavor, although the sweet pineapple does contrast nicely with the tangy lime, feel free to add pecans as they add a flavorful crunch to this lime jello salad recipe.

Lime jello looks good because of its sharp color and if you like you can garnish the individual jello desserts with chocolate sprinkles or a little bit of whipped cream. Alternatively, these jello desserts also look impressive served just as they are.


Grandma's Pineapple Cucumber Lime Jello Salad Recipe

Ingredients:

1 6oz package of Jell-O Lime gelatin

1 teaspoon salt

2 cups hot water

2 cups cold water

1 1/2 cups peeled, diced cucumbers

3 Tbsp horseradish (or more if you want it spicier)

1/2 teaspoon grated onion

2 Tbsp vinegar

1 1/2 cup of diced or crushed drained canned pineapple (you cannot use fresh pineapple with gelatins. The bromelaine enzyme in fresh pineapple will keep the gelatin from bonding.)


Method:

1. In a bowl, dissolve lime jello and salt in 2 cups of hot water (don't use boiling water, just regular hot water). Add 2 cups cold water. Chill until slightly thickened - the consistency of egg whites, about 30 minutes.

2. In a separate bowl mix cucumber, horseradish, grated onion, and vinegar. Fold pineapple and cucumber mixture into jello. Pour into a jello mold and chill for several hours (about 6) until gelatin sets.


3. To remove jello from its mold, fill up a basin half-way with hot water. Lower the jello mold into the hot water, metal side down, until the water comes up almost to the edge of the mold. Keep it there 5 seconds and remove. Place a plate on top of the jello mold and turn upside down. The jello salad should just slide out.

*Serves 6-8.


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Original Lime Jello Salad Recipe