Fruit Pasta Salad
A light and fruity pasta salad combining sweet mandarin oranges, creamy Cool Whip, and tender acini de pepe pasta. Perfect for summer picnics, potlucks, or casual gatherings, this dish offers a refreshing blend of flavors and textures that's sure to delight guests of all ages.
Ingredients
Instructions
- Boil the acini de pepe pasta in 3 quarts of boiling water until al dente.
- Drain the pasta and set aside to cool.
- In a saucepan, bring the juice from the mandarin oranges, sugar, and flour almost to a boil.
- Gradually blend in the beaten eggs and cook until the mixture thickens.
- Allow the juice and mixture to cool completely.
- Mix the cooled pasta with the juice mixture.
- Add in the mandarin oranges and Cool Whip, mixing well.
- Blend the ingredients thoroughly until combined.
- Add more drained mandarin oranges as desired before serving.
Nutrition & Diet Analysis (per serving)
249
kcal
12% DV
Protein
Fat
Carbs
* % Daily Values based on a 2,000 calorie diet (FDA 2020).