Easy Homemade Pistachio Pudding Salad Recipe

Quick Pistachio Pudding Salad

This Thanksgiving side dish is also known as Watergate Salad. I guess I am too young to understand why. Anyone know?

I was first introduced to this pistachio pudding salad as a five year old by my Aunt Jana. I was amazed at how easy it was to make; even a 5-year-old could do it! It will only take you 5-10 minutes to whip this one up!!!

After I learned about this Pistachio Pudding salad from my aunt it started showing up for Thanksgiving. When I married my husband this Pistachio salad showed up on their Thanksgiving day table too. Now, this is a must-have for Thanksgiving at my house.

Pistachio Pudding Salad Ingredients + Directions

You’ll only need 5-ingredients to make this delicious pistachio pudding salad. It’s easy to make too – all you have to do is dump and stir!

Note: I have made this without the pecans when I do not have them on hand and it is good that way too!

I have made my instructions for this pistachio salad (found below) a little more detailed to avoid dirtying more measuring cups than necessary. You could even use the same 1 cup measuring cup for all three measured ingredients.

An Easy & Delicious Holiday Dish

I hope you enjoy our traditional Thanksgiving side dish. It also makes a nice side dish for Christmas since it’s a pretty green color.

If you end up trying it out, let us know what you think! Who knows… it could become a tradition for your family as well! Enjoy!

More Side Dish Salads:

• Fudge Stripe Cookie Salad Recipe
• Caramel Apple Snickers Salad Recipe
• Berry Quinoa Salad Recipe

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Easy Homemade Pistachio Pudding Salad Recipe

This fantastically easy pistachio pudding salad takes less than 10 minutes to put together and makes for a great holiday side dish.

5 / 5 ( 9 Reviews )

Print Rate

Prep Time: 5 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 1 hour hour 5 minutes minutes

Total Time: 1 hour hour 10 minutes minutes

Serves: 6

Adjust Servings: 6

US CustomaryMetric

Ingredients

• 20 ounce can Crushed Pineapple
• 3.4 ounce package Pistachio Pudding
• 1 ½ cups Cool Whip Topping
• 1 cup marshmallows mini
• ½ cup pecans chopped

Instructions

• Measure out nuts and marshmallows.
• Dump entire can of pineapple and juices in a medium bowl.
• Add pudding powder, nuts and marshmallows.
• Measure cool whip in the measuring cups you used for the nuts and marshmallows.
• Add cool whip and stir all ingredients.
• Chill for 1 hour before serving.

Nutrition

Calories: 249kcal | Carbohydrates: 42g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 9g | Sodium: 253mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 38g