Thousand Island Dressing
Most salad dressings can be made from scratch with everyday ingredients. Thousand Island is no exception to that rule. My spiced up version is perfect on salads, sandwiches, or as a dip. After you see how simple this is you will never buy bottled dressing again!
This dressing is so easy, and I am positive you have everything you need in your pantry to make the original version.
To spice it up you will need to get chili sauce and chipotle peppers in adobo sauce, two things we always have on hand but maybe aren’t a common staple for everyone. I suggest you give the spicy version of this dressing a try. It’s not too spicy. I promise.
Since I was a kid one of my favorite sandwiches has been the reuben. I can remember ordering it once in a restaurant, the table at my chin, and the waitress looking back at my mom, like really does this kid know what she’s ordering, and my mom saying yes she said a reuben on rye, a whole sandwich with fries please. It’s funny how memories stick in your head like that.
The kicker always was that I needed extra dressing. I still do, and not any dinky little cup of dressing I need like a small soup cup full of it. I’m a dipper. My husband on the other hand is not a dipper. He orders everything sans sauce. He basically eats his salad like a rabbit. Actually it works out perfect for me because I always say, “I’ll take his dressing!”. We are a match made in heaven. It’s true opposites do attract.
Thousand Island Dressing
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup Mayonnaise
- 1/2 cup Chili Sauce or sour cream
- 1/4 cup Sweet Pickles minced chopped very small or sweet relish
- 1 tablespoon grated sweet onion
- 1 tsp Worcestershire Sauce
- 1/4 tsp smoked paprika
- 1/4 tsp ground black pepper
- salt to taste
- 1 tablespoon chopped chipotle pepper in adobo sauce this is optional if you would like your dressing spicier.
Instructions
- In a small bowl whisk all of the thousand island ingredients together.
- Serve over mixed greens, as a dip for vegetables, as the sauce for Reuben or any panini sandwich. This dip/dressing is also wonderful used as tartar sauce with fish.
Looks delicious! I’ll need to try it.
So the truth comes out at last. You chose him because you could eat his salad dressing? Ain’t love grand???
I haven’t had thousand island dressing in a long time and now I want some tomorrow.
I’m not gonna lie…it is a perk 😉