Frog's Eye Salad
Traditional dish with acini di pepe pasta, crushed pineapple, mandarin oranges.
- prep 9 min
- cook 21 min
- total 30 min
- serves 12
- intermediate
Ingredients
- 1 package acini di pepe pasta
- 2 cans pineapple
- 2 cans mandarin oranges
- 3 egg yolks
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tub imitation whipped topping
- ½ package miniature marshmallows
Steps
- Cook pasta in a large saucepan.
- Drain and rinse pasta.
- Drain cans of pineapple and oranges, reserving juice.
- Mix juices, sugar and egg yolks in a medium saucepan.
- Bring to full rolling boil, stirring frequently until thickened.
- Pour hot sauce over pasta.
- Cool.
- Refrigerate overnight.
- Add the fruit.
- Mix well.
- Then fold in whipped topping and marshmallows.
Adapted from “Frog's Eye Salad”, Wikibooks Cookbook, CC BY-SA 4.0. This adaptation is shared under the same licence.