THOUSAND ISLAND DRESSING
Thousand island dressing is so much better than the store bought and so easy to make at home.
We love this dressing and put it on everything. It is great as a sandwich spread and good on hamburgers, reuben sandwiches, regular salads and pasta salads. It will keep in the refrigerator for at least a week or longer. You can double the recipe or cut it in half if you just want to try it. My favorite way to have this is on my favorite salad of just spinach, chopped tomatoes, onions, craisins or raisins and a chopped boiled egg. You can put a chopped boiled egg in the dressing if you like but I like my egg on my salad. You might also like our recipe for homemade buttermilk ranch dressing or honey mustard dressing. I keep this dressing in my fridge because we use it on so many foods.
Ingredients for thousand island dressing
1 cup of mayonnaise (could use Miracle Whip)
1/2 cup tomato ketchup
2 tablespoons sweet pickle relish
2 teaspoons white granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
2 teaspoons chopped onion (can use the dried onion flakes)
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
Pinch cayenne or few drops hot sauce, (optional)
Stir together all ingredients with a spoon in a bowl. Makes 1 1/2 cups homemade thousand island dressing. Enjoy.
Thousand Island Dressing
Ingredients
- 1 cup of mayonnaise could use Miracle Whip
- 1/2 cup tomato ketchup
- 2 tablespoons sweet pickle relish
- 2 teaspoons white granulated sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 2 teaspoons chopped onion can use the dried onion flakes
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- Pinch cayenne or few drops hot sauce (optional)
Instructions
- Stir together all ingredients with a spoon in a bowl.
Notes
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The only thing I changed. Instead of sweet relish I used dill relish. Please try it I did like it.
This recipe is so easy to make an absolutely delicious! I leave out the spicy ingredients for my taste. Thanks for sharing it with everyone!
This Thousand Island dressing is absolutely delicious. My family loves it. No more store bought. Thank you for sharing.
This is so good and reminds me of the homemade Thousand Island Dressing my Mama and I used to make 45+ years ago. It takes no time to make (even chopping my own pickles, since I couldn’t find relish that didn’t contain high fructose corn syrup) and it’s so much healthier!
How long does it keep in the refrigerator ?
A week or so.
This is really tasty, but I’m my opinion, it does NOT need additional salt. I will leave that out next time… Otherwise, delicious!