How to Make Your Own Thousand Island Dressing

My favorite Dressing is Bleu Cheese and then Thousand Island. I can give you a nice recipe on the latter. It's been 34 years since I was given this recipe and since then I don't panic when I run out of dressing. This is what you need

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• A cup of lowfat Mayonaise
• (There are a lot of lowfat, tasty Mayonaises out there, like Kraft with Olive Oil)
• About 1/4 cup tomato ketchup
• About 1/4 cup pickle relish
• Dash of garlic powder (optional)
• tspn of lemon juice or vinegar

1. 
    
   Use a cup of mayonaise.....

   You're going to make a thousand island dressing from scratch using lowfat ingredients. You are going to measure according to how many servings you want. Start with 1 cup of Kraft Low Fat Mayonaise with Olive Oil.

2. 
    
   1/2 cup of ketchup

   You're going to combine this with 1/4 cup of ketchup and blend well, whipping vigorously until you achieve the consistancy of the bottled dressing (use more or less of the ketchup)

3. 
    
   If you like Thousand Island.....

   Add 1/4 cup of sweet pickle relish, add dash of garlic powder, teaspoon of vinegar or lemon juice and let chill in the refrigerater overnight. I like to do keep mixtures over night so that the flavors can blend.

4. Add a Julienne Salad with lettuce, tomatoes, onions, strips of chicken breast and topped with croutons. Chopped celery and carrots optional. Enjoy.

Tips & Warnings

• You can increase or decrease the ketchup. You want the salad to take on the appearance of of the bottled salad dressing
• You can also add 'finely' chopped onion to your likiing. I have tried this before

[MyJB]

on 11/17/2009 Good recipe. Didn't know I could make my own Thousand Island salad dressing. I learned something new!