Frog's Eye Salad

Name: Frog's Eye Salad
Prep time: 1 h 45 min
Cook time: 1 h 45 min
Total time: 1 h 45 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 355 milliliters dried acini de pepe pasta (see note above); 312 grams mandarin oranges; 3 Tbsps corn starch; 473 milliliters mini marshmallows; 567 grams pineapple chunks in juice; 0 teaspoons salt; 59 milliliters sugar; 59 milliliters sweetened condensed milk; 1 Tbsps vanilla extract; 473 milliliters whole milk

Frog's Eye Salad might be just the side dish you are searching for. This recipe covers 5% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One portion of this dish contains approximately 5g of protein, 2g of fat, and Head to the store and pick up milk, mandarin oranges, corn starch, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 1 hour and 45 minutes.

Instructions

Bring 2 quarts of water to a rapid boil. Cook pasta according to directions on package.

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Pasta

Water

Drain pasta and rinse in cold water.

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Pasta

Water

Add pasta to a large bowl. Open can of pineapple. Strain juice over pasta and stir to mix and coat the pasta. Set pineapple aside.

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Pineapple

Juice

Pasta

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Bowl

In a medium saucepan combine cornstarch, salt and sugar.

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Corn Starch

Sugar

Salt

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Sauce Pan

Mix to combine. Slowly add milk and heat over medium, stirring constantly to dissolve sugar and avoid any lumps. Once sugar has dissolved whisk in sweetened condensed milk and vanilla. Stir constantly until mixture forms a thick pudding.

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Sweetened Condensed Milk

Vanilla

Sugar

Milk

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Whisk

Remove from heat pour into a medium bowl, place plastic wrap or waxed paper over the top of the bowl so it is flush with the pudding to avoid developing a skin.

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Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

Bowl

Place in refrigerator to cool for about an hour.

Pour pudding into bowl with pasta mixture, stirring well to completely coat the pasta. Just before serving mix in pineapple chunks, mandarin oranges and marshmallows (if desired).

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Mandarin Oranges