Pineapple-Rhubarb Ring
A delicious sweet and tangy red molded salad to brighten up any spring table
Ingredients
- 1 can Pineapple Tidbits about 2 1/2 cups
- 2 cups Fresh Rhubarb cut into 1 inch chunks
- 1/3 cup Sugar
- 1/2 cup Water
- 2 pkgs Cherry flavored gelatin 3 oz size (or 1 large)
- 1 TB Lemon Juice
- 1/2 Cup Pecans Broken
Instructions
- Drain pineapple and reserve syrup. (Ideally, you'd drain it into a glass measuring cup that has room enough to add more)
- Combine rhubarb, water, and sugar into a small sauce pan; cover and cook until tender. This will require more time for slightly older rhubarb than for freshly picked young rhubarb.
- Drain thoroughly, reserving syrup. (Add it to the pineapple juice. This is why I told you to make sure the cup is bigger than you'd need.)
- (And this is where the measuring cup part comes in.) Add enough water that combined syrups and water equal 3 ½ cups.
- Heat to boiling. (At this point just throw it in the microwave. Don't bother getting another dish dirty)
- Add gelatin and stir to dissolve.
- Add lemon juice and cool.
- Chill until partially set. (If you are lucky, this instruction applies to you as well as the gelatin. But I usually use this time to get other things done, which is why my gelatin gets too hard at this point. It's smart to set a timer for about a half hour.)
- Fold in rhubarb, pineapple, and nuts. (It's like 007 instructions. "One Jell-O salad. Folded not stirred.)
- Pour into a 6 cup ring mold. (Let's be honest here, you can pour this into anything that'll hold 6 cups or even into a bunch of smaller containers. Don't let these people tell you how to mold your salad.)
- Chill until firm. (See instruction above on chilling.)
- Unmold onto greens. Serve with mayonnaise. (Really, do not serve this with mayonnaise. I mean, if that's what you do, fine, but I prefer anything that is not that. Sweetened whipped cream, vanilla sauce, rum sauce, pineapple sauce. Just not mayonnaise unless you really like that sort of combination. Or do the hardcore rebellion thing and use no sauce at all.)