The Christmas Salad 🇲🇽 is a typical dessert (postre) for Christmas in Mexico.
▶ In Mexico, it began to be included in Christmas menus as early as the 1940s, and at that time it was made with apples, raisins, and walnuts and with mayonnaise, which over the years has been replaced by condensed milk.
▶ Depending on where it is prepared, it can include many other ingredients like grated carrots (in this case, it becomes a side dish rather than a dessert), marshmallows, strawberries, oranges, grapes, peaches, and canned pineapples, and even cherries.
▶️ It is the Mexican version of the more famous Waldorf Salad, which includes among its ingredients celery and grapes.
🌟 Mine is prepared with apples, canned pineapple, raisins, condensed milk, and a dual version with pistachios or walnuts.
Do not confuse it with another typical Mexican Christmas Salad, but based on beets and considered an appetizer or side dish:
- Difficulty: Very Easy
- Cost: Very Cheap
- Preparation time: 5 Minutes
- Portions: 8 people
- Cooking methods: No Cooking
- Cuisine: Mexican
- Seasonality: Christmas
Ingredients
- 3 cups apples
- 12 oz canned pineapple
- 0.85 cup condensed milk
- 0.5 cup raisins
- 1 pinch salt
- 0.12 lb walnuts (and/or pistachios)
Steps
Blend the condensed milk with 80ml of the pineapple syrup.
Toast the walnuts.
Cut the apples and pineapples into 3/4 inch pieces.
Soak the raisins in water and once rehydrated, squeeze them.
Add the fruit to the milk cream, add a pinch of salt and the raisins, mix and then once served in each individual cup, decorate with walnuts and pistachios.
Christmas Gift Ideas?
Christmas Gift Ideas?
Check out my Christmas Gift Guide on the blog!
Check out my Christmas Gift Guide on the blog!
FAQ (Questions and Answers)
You can serve the Christmas Salad in elegant glass cups all year round.
