Name: Thousand Island Dressing
Yield: Yield: About 1½ Cups.
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: ¼ cup chili sauce or ketchup, or equal parts of each; 1 cup mayonnaise; Lemon juice to taste; Salt to taste, if desired; 2 tablespoons finely chopped sweet pickles; 2 teaspoons finely chopped parsley; Freshly ground pepper to taste; ½ cup finely chopped heart of celery; 2 tablespoons finely chopped pimiento-stuffed green olives; 1 tablespoon finely chopped onion; 1 hard-cooked egg, chopped

Preparation info

Yield: About
1½ Cups

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Craig Claiborne's Southern Cooking

By Craig Claiborne

Published 1987

About

A Thousand Island dressing is not of Southern origin. Legend has it that it was created many years ago by the executive chef of the Drake Hotel in Chicago. He concocted the mayonnaise dressing with many chopped foods such as olives, pickles, and egg, and when his wife saw it she remarked that it looked like the Thousand Islands, near Ontario, New York, that they had recently visited. Whatever its origins, I cannot imagine a Southern home without it.