Description
Grape lovers unite for this luscious Creamy Grape Salad that combines sweet, tangy flavors with a dreamy cream cheese base. Cool summer gatherings find perfection in this simple, chilled delight that brings friends and family together around one irresistible bowl.
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 lbs (907 g) seedless green grapes
- 2 lbs (907 g) seedless red grapes
- ½ cup (100 g) granulated sugar
- 8 oz (226 g) cream cheese, softened
- 8 oz (226 g) sour cream
- 1 tsp (5 ml) vanilla extract
- ½ cup (100 g) brown sugar
- ½ cup (60 g) chopped pecans or walnuts
Instructions
- Grape Preparation: Meticulously cleanse and pat dry the grapes, delicately removing them from their stems and transferring to a spacious mixing vessel.
- Dressing Creation: In a separate container, whip the cream cheese, sour cream, sugar, and vanilla extract into a luxuriously smooth and velvety consistency, ensuring no lumps remain.
- Fusion and Coating: Cascade the creamy dressing over the pristine grapes, employing a gentle folding technique to enrobe each grape uniformly with the decadent mixture.
- Textural Embellishment: Generously dust the surface with a lavish sprinkle of brown sugar and finely fragmented nuts, creating a tantalizing crunch and depth of flavor.
- Flavor Melding and Presentation: Seal the salad and allow it to rest in the refrigerator for a minimum of one hour, enabling the ingredients to harmonize and intensify their collective essence. Serve thoroughly chilled for an optimal taste experience.
Notes
- Select firm, seedless grapes like green or red seedless for the best texture and flavor.
- Pat grapes completely dry after washing to avoid excess moisture in the salad.
- Adjust sugar levels based on grape sweetness and personal preference, tasting as you mix.
- Make the salad a day in advance for deeper flavor development, but add nut topping just before serving to maintain crunchiness.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 1 hour
- Category: Snacks, Desserts
- Method: None
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 9
- Calories: 150
- Sugar: 12 g
- Sodium: 50 mg
- Fat: 8 g
- Saturated Fat: 3 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 5 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 18 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 2 g
- Cholesterol: 15 mg