Frog-eyed Fruit Salad


This makes quite a bit, so it's perfect for a large summer picnic or potluck. You can also half the recipe for less left overs, but somehow, we manage to gorge on it for a few days!

1 C sugar
3 egg yolks
2C pineapple juice
1 Tbs lemon juice
16 oz acini de pepe pasta (looks like couscous)
2- 20oz pineapple chunks, juiced reserved
2-11oz mandarin oranges
1 1/2 C maraschino cherries
2 Tbs flour
1 pkg mini marshmellows
8 oz whipped cream

On low heat, combine sugar, yolks, flour, pineapple and lemon juices, until thick. Cook pasta according to package directions, drain. Combine pasta and sauce in a large bowl, cover with tautly with plastic wrap and refrigerate 8 hours or over night. It will turn into a big chunk, so break it up--I think a potato masher works good. Then toss with rest of ingredients. Enjoy!

Aerialrose Aerialrose
Hi GirlA, Instead of maraschino cherries, which are mostly artificial dye and sugar, why not use real black cherries? Also: according to your group description, you're Vegan and this group is supposed to be animal product free. This Frog's Eye Salad is not Vegan as it contains eggs. Promoting non-Vegan recipes in a supposedly Vegan forum is very disappointing to me. I hope you will either update your group info to be accurate or update the recipe to the Vegan version. I have yet to find a Vegan frog eye salad and was hoping (from the false advertisement from google) that this would, in fact, be a compassionate dish. If you have any recommendations to substitute the egg in this instance (is it just a binder in this case? If so, Energ-G egg replacer ought to work), I would be most appreciative.
heineken67 heineken67
My mother makes this for every family gathering. A little sweet for my tastes, but she loves the stuff!
girlA girlA
Actually no, it doesn't. Some does, but you can find cool whip that is non-dairy--thank goodness!
POPSUGAR Food POPSUGAR Food
That sounds really interesting, but doesn't the whipped cream have dairy in it?