Thousand Island Dressing Recipe

How to make the Best Thousand Island Dressing!

It's far tastier on a prawn cocktail (shrimp) than the usual Marie Rose sauce. You can also use it as a dip for fries or on a burger.

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*Post updated December 2024

Thousand Island dressing is an American salad dressing based on mayonnaise. It is tangy and slightly sweet at the same time.

I have seen recipes online for 3 ingredients Thousand Island dressing recipes.

Trust me, they are not true Thousand Island dressing and therefore won't taste half as good. 😉

You can make it as little or spicy as you like, all I know is it's totally delicious!

Recipe Top Tip!

You can make it a thicker consistency by adding a very finely chopped boiled egg - you might want to do this if you plan to serve your Thousand Island dressing on a burger or Reuben sandwich.

How to serve Thousand Island dressing:

• a dip for fries, crudités or even tortilla chips

• instead of mayonnaise in potato salad

• on prawn cocktail 

• as a salad dressing 

• as a spread in sandwiches - and is an ingredient in the Reuben sandwich

Ingredients

• mayonnaise - I use Hellmann's mayonnaise

• tomato ketchup

• Worcestershire sauce

• Tabasco sauce 

• sweet smoked paprika - I use La Chinata sweet paprika

• small gherkins 

• capers 

• fresh lemon juice

• freshly ground black pepper

Gather the ingredients and prepare the gherkins and capers (Full detail in the printable recipe card below).

Mix together in a medium-sized bowl.

If you are making a prawn cocktail (shrimp cocktail) again, see the recipe card below.

And, tuck in!

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Yield: 2

Author: Jan Bennett

Thousand Island Dressing

Prawn cocktail is usually served with Marie Rose sauce, but I prefer Thousand Island dressing.

Prep time: 6 MinTotal time: 6 Min

Ingredients

Thousand island dressing ingredients

• 4 tablespoons mayonnaise - I use Hellmann's mayonnaise
• 2 tablespoon tomato ketchup
• 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce - or to taste
• a dash of Tabasco sauce - or to taste
• 1 teaspoon sweet smoked paprika
• 4 small gherkins - chopped very finely
• 12 capers in brine - rinsed to remove the salty taste - chopped very finely
• fresh lemon juice - to taste
• freshly ground black pepper

For prawn cocktail

• 2 small handfuls of cooked prawns (shrimp)
• iceberg lettuce - shredded
• lemon wedges
• sweet smoked paprika - for sprinkling
• freshly ground black pepper

Instructions

To make the sauce

1. In a medium-sized bowl mix the sauce ingredients together. The sauce should be lovely and bright in colour and taste nice and tangy.
2. You may want to add a little more Worcestershire sauce, ketchup or tabasco, or lemon juice to your taste.

To make prawn cocktail

1. Serve the sauce on top of the lettuce and prawns, sprinkling with a little more black pepper and paprika.
2. Add a wedge of lemon on the side for squeezing over.

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