1,000 Island dressing
1,000 Island Dressing
Ingredients
1 cup aioli or mayonnaise
1/4 cup yellow onion, minced
2 tablespoons ketchup
2 tablespoons sweet pickle relish such as Garlic Scape Relish
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon sweet paprika
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
Process
Mince the onion and put in a bowl. Add the rest of the ingredients and mix together until combined. Serve with crudite, on salad or with shore dinners.
This recipe has a couple potential stories of origin and one is that a fisherman’s wife would make this to accompany their shore dinners. It’s made of a couple of condiments mixed together essentially and so that is why it makes the most sense to me. Tartar is relish and a creamy base and this is not really much different and neither is it’s suitability for summer seafood and salads.
It begins with a recipe naturally made from living life at home, then someone visits and tries it at dinner one night. Words spreads and people make it more at home until perhaps or in this case, we start bottling it. Instead of opening jars and using what’s on hand, the companies and manufacturers making it now bring singular ingredients together to make the version with a lot of decisions made according to its stability rather than it’s recipe roots.
Keep in the refrigerator for up to 1 week if using homemade mayonnaise and up to 3 weeks if using store bought.
This is how you could consider the quick accessibility at home rather than grabbing the ready to open bottle from the grocery store :
*Aioli :
2 yolks
1 tsp salt
2 garlic clove
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1.5 cup olive oil
Pound the yolks, salt, clove and lemon juice in a mortar and pestle (or buzz in a blender) for 1 minute until pale light yellow.
Drop 3-4 drizzles of olive oil in while whisking and whisk til incorporated. Drop another 3-4 drizzles and whisk again until incorporated. Do this one more time and then begin pouring the oil in a slow and steady stream and constantly whisking. In 2-3 minutes, you will have a thick and creamy aioli that will refuse to let you discount the alchemical potential of an egg yolk.
This will last for 24 hours in the fridge or a week if made immediately into 1,000 island dressing.
The 1,000 Island Dressing recipe has a couple potential stories of origin but the one I like and understand is that a fisherman’s wife would make this to accompany their shore dinners. Its made of a couple of condiments mixed together essentially and so that is why it makes the most sense to me. Tartar is relish and a creamy base and this is not really much different and neither is it’s suitability for summer seafood and salads.