Thousand Island Dressing

This easy Thousand Island Dressing recipe is guaranteed to be a hit whenever it’s served. Use it as a salad dressing, sandwich spread or as a dip with your favorite fresh vegetables for snacking and entertaining.

Easy Thousand Island Dressing

Making your own flavorful Thousand Island Dressing is a cinch! You’ll love having this delicious dressing chilled and ready in the refrigerator for quick meals and snacking. It can be used on sandwiches, burgers or as a dip with fresh veggies, crackers and potato chips. How to make simple Thousand Island Dressing: (Scroll down for full printable recipe.)

• In a medium size bowl, whisk together mayonnaise, chili sauce, ketchup, horseradish, lemon pepper, paprika and Worcestershire sauce.
• To the bowl add minced onion, pickle relish, egg and garlic, Mix to fully combine.
• Place into a mason jar or similar airtight container and let the dressing chill for at least 4 hours or overnight so the flavors can combine and come to life.
• Enjoy on salads, as a sandwich spread or a vegetable dip. (Makes 2 cups or one pint)

How to Make the BEST Thousand Island Dressing

• Ingredients you’ll need to make homemade Thousand Island Dressing: Real mayonnaise, chili sauce (i.e. Heinz or similar), ketchup, sweet pickle relish, sweet onion, garlic clove. large hard boiled egg, prepared horseradish, lemon pepper, paprika and Worcestershire sauce. You’ll also need buttermilk or whole milk to thin.
• Kitchen tools you’ll need: Medium bowl, measuring cups and spoons, whisk, sharp knife and chopping board.
• You can lighten up this dressing using your favorite light mayonnaise in any brand that you enjoy. For us, it’s Duke’s mayonnaise but your favorite brand will do.
• The chili sauce in this recipe isn’t an Asian chili sauce. It’s like Heinz or you can use a similar private label store brand that you enjoy. You could even use cocktail sauce in a pinch in the same amount.
• I prefer sweet pickle relish in this recipe. That said, if you lean more toward dill pickle relish, you can certainly adapt using that as an ingredient instead. It wouldn’t change the amount but it will change the flavor.
• Feel free to increase or decrease the amount of prepared horseradish to suit your taste. I find 1/2 teaspoon is perfect as reflected in the recipe.
• This dressing is thicker by design. I usually wait until the end of the recipe to decide if I want to thin the consistency or not depending on the mayonnaise used. Should you like to thin the dressing, add milk or buttermilk in small amounts until it reaches the consistency you like.
• I recommend giving this dressing chill time to allow the flavors to fully marry. Plan on at least 4 hours or even overnight if time allows.
• When mincing the garlic, onion and hard boiled egg, chop them as finely as possible.
• You can store homemade Thousand Island Dressing for up to one week in an airtight container chilled in the refrigerator.

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Helpful Kitchen Items:

• Mixing Bowls
• Measuring Set
• Whisks
• Chopping Boards