Hello and welcome to you in the kitchen with Matt.
I am your host, Matt Taylor.
Today, I'm going to show you how to make an ambrosia salad.
I had a request to make an Ambrogio salad.
So here we go.
That's what we're going to do.
For those of you who aren't familiar with Ambrosia Salad,
it's a very popular salad.
Fruit salad.
Down in the south southern United States.
And it kind of gets its name from Greek mythology.
It is really good.
If you love fruit salads, sweet and tangy,
you'll love this.
Super easy to do.
If I can do it, you can do it.
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In the description box, you'll find a list of the
ingredients and their amounts.
One thing I want to point out is you don't have to be super
precise with these amounts, okay?
If you like more of one ingredient than another,
use more than another.
If you don't want a certain ingredient, then don't
use it at all.
You can substitute it.
This is your ambrosia salad.
You can do whatever you want.
Okay.
All right.
So first, what I'm going to do is I'm going to slide these
ingredients aside and get a large bowl here.
And now I'm going to open up eight ounces of sour cream.
This is one cup of sour cream.
And if you don't have sour cream, you can
make sour cream.
I have a little video on how you can make your own sour
cream or you can substitute the sour cream with yogurt
if you want.
Use a plain yogurt or use like a vanilla yogurt.
And get this all in here.
But sour cream in general.
Sour cream and fruit, especially sweet fruit
go really, really well together as kids.
What we used to do is we would dip strawberries and sour cream
and then dip that in brown sugar.
It was really, really good.
Now I have one full tub or one container of whipped topping,
and you can use the Cool Whip brand, or you just use the
store brand that pretty much taste the same.
And this is much cheaper.
This is only $1 and this is eight ounces as well,
or 226 grams.
And I said this, I set this out for about 30 minutes just so it
would soften up.
We want to put all of that in there.
And you could do homemade whipped cream, too,
if you want.
Okay.
And now we just want to stir this together.
Now we start adding the other ingredients again.
All these ingredients are optional, but they're very
common in a typical ambrosia salad or a fruit salad.
So I'm going to start with.
This is about 16 ounces of little Mandarin oranges,
and you can just get these in a can or these of fruit cups and
then just drain it, put that in there.
Just slightly over a cup worth it.
Again, if you don't want to use that many, you don't have to.
If you want to use a little bit more, you can do
that as well.
And then I'm going to add.
About a cup of.
Green grapes.
If they're really large, you want to slice them
in half.
If they're small like this, I normally don't slice
them in half.
And those are optional.
Some ambrosia salads will have the grapes and some won't.
Just depends.
Remember to use one cup of sweetened coconut.
Shredded coconut.
If you don't like coconut, then don't add it and make sure
you use the sweetened kind if you use the unsweetened.
Just doesn't taste that good.
And now when you use fruity, fruity mini marshmallows and
that's very, very popular to have those in
the ambrosia salad.
And then we have one and a half cups.
This is 20 ounces of just pineapple tidbits.
I mean, we have just under a cup, about three fourths of a
cup of Mary, you know, cherries.
Those are very popular to have in the ambrosia salad as well.
But some people do not like maraschino cherries,
and if so, then just leave them out or substitute with
different cherries if you want.
Okay.
There you go.
That's what we do.
There's no baking or cooking or anything required.
And now we just want to fold this all together.
You don't want to stir really heavily because you don't want
to break up the fruit.
We just want to kind of just go underneath that and
fold it back.
And this fruit salad is very common in the
springtime and summertime.
And there you go.
It is ready to go.
And then sometimes when you serve it, I will serve it.
And, you know, I'll just place a little cherry like that on
top after I serve it.
And then what you do is you're just going to cover this.
I have a lid for this bowl.
Just cover it and chill it until you want to serve it.
Well, there you go.
Ambrosia, fruit salad.
Super yummy.
Super easy to do.
If I can do it, you can do it.
I'm Matt Taylor.
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Time for me to dive into this area.
Hmm.
Hmm,
hmm.
Hmm.
So amazing.