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Home » Recipes » Dressing, Sauces, and Seasonings

Homemade Thousand Island Dressing

Modified: Jan 27, 2025 by Kori Butler · Published: May 30, 2023

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This healthy homemade thousand Island dressing recipe is a 6-ingredient, 5-minute, quick, and easy salad dressing to make. The perfect blend of tangy and sweet - and you'll love the hint of pickles. A healthy homemade dressing easily with sugar-free, low carb, and keto options! 🙂

A jar of thousand island dressing and a green salad.Pin

Why It's The Best Thousand Island Dressing

My family LOVED this creamy dressing. It has a ton of flavor and is so good. Tasty!

It's Easy. With only a few simple ingredients and 5 minutes, you can make this sauce. I like to double or triple the recipe and keep some on hand. 

It's Tasty. So much amazing flavor with just a few ingredients - love it!

It's Healthy. The recipe nutritional value of this keto thousand island recipe is calculated using sugar-free ketchup and mayo and sweetener. You can make it with regular sweetened products as well, depending on your dietary needs.

Ingredients

Six ingredients needed for making homemade thousand island dressing.

Here's what you'll need to make this thousand island dressing recipe:

  • Mayonnaise: use any favorite brand of mayo. If you are a keto follower be sure to check the label.
  • Dill Pickles
  • Onion
  • Unsweetened ketchup (keto-friendly ketchup); regular ketchup can be used just use less added sweetener.
  • Sweetener - use a 1:1 ratio granulated sugar substitute or regular sugar (if you are not following a low carb or keto diet.
  • Dill pickle juice

How To Make Thousand Island Dressing

Here are the steps for making the best thousand island dressing - it's super simple!

Mixing the salad dressing ingredients in a small bowl.Pin

1. Mix all ingredients in a small bowl. Refrigerate until ready to use.

A fresh green salad topped with homemade thousand island dressing served on a white plate.Pin

2. Serve over a fresh green salad or use as a dip. Can be stored for up to 5 days in an airtight jar.

Kori's Tips

  • Make-ahead to allow the flavors to blend more. This is not a necessity however - it will taste good anyway. 🙂
  • Finely dice the onions and dill pickles.
  • Keto followers: use unsweetened ketchup. If your ketchup is labeled sugar free, it is sweetened, and you will need to lower the sweetener added to the recipe.

Be sure to pin this to Pinterest and save for later! 🙂

Pintrest pin with a jar of homemade thousand island salad dressing.Pin

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📖 The recipe.

A mason jar of thousand island dressing.

Homemade Thousand Island Dressing Recipe

This homemade thousand island salad dressing recipe is a 6 ingredient 5 minute quick & easy delicious salad dressing to make. Bonus: you can easily make this low carb, sugar free, and keto-friendly!
4.50 from 4 votes
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Author Kori Butler
Prep Time 5 minutes mins
Total Time 5 minutes mins
Course Dressing, Sauces, and Seasoning
Cuisine American
Servings 6 servings
Calories 138 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • ½ cup mayonnaise (keto: use keto-friendly mayo)
  • 2 tablespoons pickles (finely diced)
  • 1 tablespoon onion (finely diced)
  • 1 tablespoon ketchup (keto: use sugar free)
  • 2 teaspoons sugar (keto: use granulated monkfruit sweetener)
  • 1 teaspoons dill pickle juice

Instructions
 

  • Mix all ingredients in a small bowl until blended.
  • Refrigerate until ready to use. Can be made up to 5 days ahead of time.

Nutrition

Serving: 2tbspCalories: 138kcalCarbohydrates: 1.2gFat: 16gCholesterol: 20mgSodium: 184mgFiber: 0.1gSugar: 0.8g
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Thousand Island dressing is so tasty and easy to make! Not just a salad dressing - it makes a great vegetable dip, a special sauce for burgers and fries. With just a few ingredients it's a super easy keto salad dressing recipe! This keto recipe is also low carb and sugar-free. #saladdressing#thousandisland #keto #lowcarb #sugarfree #ketodressingrecipe #seekinggoodeats#dip #vegetabledip

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  1. Steve

    January 28, 2024 at 3:14 pm

    Pickles - Sweet or Dill ?

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    • seekinggoodeats

      January 29, 2024 at 9:36 am

      Hello - I used dill. But sweet would give it a nice taste too!

      Reply
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