A Sweet & Creamy Snack or Snazzy Side Dish
This dish is quick to throw together and sure to impress your coworkers, family, or friends. You can serve it as a side dish or have it as a mid-afternoon snack for yourself or your family. It looks fantastic with the bright pops of green and red grapes hidden throughout the sweet, creamy vanilla dressing, topped off with a scrumptious brown sugar pecan crumble. Yum!
As a side dish, we recommend quartering the recipe. Feel free to play with the amount of sugar you add (if any) as many grape salad recipes add sugar to the creamy mixture but we have left it out. The grapes are sweet in their own right, and the vanilla Greek yogurt adds a satisfying level of sweetness without overdoing it.
Ingredients, Kitchenware, & Prep Time
Prep Time
10 minutes | Servings: 12
Ingredients
- 2 lbs green seedless grapes
- 2 lbs red seedless grapes
- 8oz / 227g light sour cream
- 8oz / 227g light cream cheese, room temperature
- 1 cup vanilla Greek yogurt
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- Optional: ½ cup white sugar
Kitchenware
- Large mixing bowl
- Whisk or hand mixer
- Spatula
Nutritional Information
Per service (this recipe makes 12 services)
| Nutritional Information: per 1 cup | |
| Calories | 172 |
| Fat (g) | 6 |
| Cholesterol (mg) | 19 |
| Sodium (mg) | 114 |
| Potassium (mg) | 266 |
| Total Carbohydrates (g) | 30 |
| Protein (g) | 5 |
| Vit A % | 7 |
| Vit C % | 9 |
| Calcium % | 11 |
| Iron % | 2 |
| Based on daily 2000 kcal diet | |
Step by Step Instructions (With Pictures)
Step 1: Wash Grapes, Strain, Set Aside
Give the grapes a thorough rinse in warm water to ensure any chemicals and dirt that may have found their way onto the surface of the grapes have been removed.
Step 2: Mix Wet Ingredients
Combine sour cream, cream cheese, and Greek yogurt into mixing bowl. Blend together until smooth.
Step 3: Add Mixture to Grapes
Stir the mixture with the grapes and pour into large serving bowl or storage container.
Step 4: Chill Overnight or Before Serving
Let the whole mixture sit for the evening prior to moving on to step five.
Step 5: Add Toppings & Serve
If you are serving right away: combine brown sugar and pecans and sprinkle over top grapes. Serve in a shallow dish to allow a more even distribution of the yummy crumble topping.
If you are not serving right away: store the brown sugar and pecans together in a container separate of the salad.
- 2 lbs green seedless grapes
- 2 lbs red seedless grapes
- 8oz / 227g light sour cream
- 8oz / 227g light cream cheese, room temperature
- 1 cup vanilla Greek yogurt
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- Optional: ½ cup white sugar
- Step 1: Wash Grapes, Strain, Set Aside
- Step 2: Mix Wet Ingredients
- Step 3: Add Mixture To Grapes
- Step 4: Chill Overnight Or Before Serving
- Step 5: Add Toppings & Serve
This sounds very yummy and I can’t wait to try it! Question: Do I want to add the topping before or after chilling? Thanks!
I put my topping on before I chill it!
Do you cut grapes in half?
I don’t cut them at all!
My mother – in – law is a chef and I am always trying to find a new recipe to try to make something she hasn’t had! This looks awesome! I can’t wait to try it!
Hope you like it!! 🙂
The brown sugar seems like it would make it a little too sweet. Have you ever tried leaving it off?
I took some out before my Mom added the brown sugar, it was still yummy. Then tried some with and it just added a little crunchy sweet, not too much. But both ways were delicious 🙂
My mom made this for Easter, I was nervous to try it, but it was delicious. Definitely going to make!!!
My daughter made this for Easter. Everyone wanted the recipe, and yes, it was great. Some one asked about using the grapes whole. Yes, the grapes did taste and looked better whole. I would not use “large” grapes. Unless, you do not have children to serve!
The first time that I had this was at a baby shower. I threatened to eat the whole bowl and not share!!! It is unusual until you take the first bite. Heaven in your mouth. I take this to family gatherings, if I can find and afford the grapes at that time. It made my mouth water when I saw the picture. Yeah, its that good.. 🙂
if chilled overnight will it get watery?
I probably wouldn’t chill over night. What I would do is chill the grapes in a bowl and mix up the cream cheese mixture and keep it in the fridge in a different bowl…then the next morning, mix it all together and top with the brown sugar/nuts.
What’s the nutritional value of this???
Thank you so much for this recipe. Made this for an office party and everyone loved it!!! 🙂
So glad it was a hit!! 🙂
One of the restaurants by my home serves this and it is wonderful. So easy and delicious. Thanks for posting the recipe.
I didn’t have the sour cream on hand so i used vanilla yogurt instead and left out the vanilla, it turned out great! Thanks for the recipe!
Great way to use up leftover grapes!