Grape Salad.. Excellent for Picnics.. easy and delicious!

This dish serves 12 to 15 people excelent for Picnics, to take to Church,

to take to Nursing homes or any Potlucks! This is so delicious and so easy!

1 1/2 lb green grapes

1 1/2 lb red grapes

8 oz. fat free cream cheese

8 oz. fat free sour cream

1/2 cup sugar (can use Splenda)

1 tsp. vanilla

4 oz. chopped pecans or walnuts

3/4 cup brown sugar

Wash grapes and pat completely dry,

Mix 8 oz cream cheese and 8 oz sour cream together

Stir in 1/2 cup sugar or (Splenda) and vanilla

Fold in grapes untill completely covered

Spread into a large glass 9 by 13 baking dish

Slightly brown 4 oz. chopped pecans or walnuts,

when cool stir into 3/4 cup of brown sugar.

Sprinkle mixture completely over top of grapes gently pat it on there.

(do not stir in there... only on top of grapes)

Cover with Saran wrap and refrigerate overnight.

Enjoy this dish!

Susan

this recipe is very good.  We never let it sit over night though - many times it gets eaten right away.  Especially by my kids!

Kathleen

 Cut the grapes in halve when you take this dish to a nursing home it is easier to eat, you can still pat it dry a little more, otherwise it could be too runny.

Hugs Susan

I made this grape salad for a Christmas brunch at our clubhouse, and it was the hit of the affair.  Also, it made a nice presentation on a red oval platter.  Mary Kay

I made half a recipe for my family of four and it's was almost inhaled.  I used only red grapes since that's what I had on hand.   I had a container of brown sugar with some cinnamon mixed in and used that and also toasted the pecans. My daughter told me not to lose the recipe, that it was a "keeper".  Isn't it a joy when you find a new recipe that is so delicious?

What a different recipe !! I will serve it at our 4th of July party. Thank you for posting

Nadine 

I would probably use light instead of fat free, but this looks good and all I hear is raves about it, so maybe the next luncheon at work, or for the 4th.

Do the nuts pick up the brown sugar, or what? Are they to be somewhat like a sugared nut?

SUSAN:  I used low fat cream cheese.  Also, for those who perhaps do not like nuts -- cannot fathom why -- I mixed the toasted nuts with the brown sugar.  Rather than putting them IN the salad, I put them all around the salad, thus forming an oval trench along the perimeter of the oval red (plastic) platter that I had gotten at the dollar store.  Mary Kay

 P.S.  The Cool Whip sounds like a good addition.

Susan - I may be overthinking this but,...don't you want the brown sugar to stick? I'm thinking if the nuts are cool they won't pick up any brown sugar and what would be the point in that. I just can't picture it.

Thanks,

Rebecca

Hello Rebecca, I made it so it did not stick to the brown sugar, but you could do it that way, I found on Allrecipes a Green Grape Salad nearly the same as mine and there were 125 reviews.

 I will share the link... it was fun to see how every one made this salad different.

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Green-Grape-Salad/Reviews.aspx

I have to hop in the shower, we have a 100 degrees today the Grape Salad is so good and refreshing on a hot day like this, we like fruit mixtures for lunch or salads.

Have a lovely day, let me know how yours turns out.

Susan

I make this salad, but have tweaked it because my dh is a diabetic.
I use 1 1/2 # grapes and 1 1/2 # goleden delicious apples
1 small package sf vanilla pudding mixed with 1 3/4cup milk,
add 1 8oz. package cream cheese and 2 tsp. maple flavoring. Blend well, and add to grape and apple mixture.  I also add a cup of peanuts.   VERY GOOD!

Oh Susan...I just saw the title of this thread & thought it sounded delicious...didn't realize right away it was you that posted it!! LOL

Hope things are going well & we have the opportunity to bump into one another soon!

:)

Renee