Hearts of Lettuce with Thousand Island Dressing
Hearts of Lettuce with Thousand Island Dressing is a delicious salad with tons of vintage charm. The homemade Thousand Island Dressing recipe is one you'll use over and over.
Ingredients
- 1 head of bibb or iceberg lettuce
- 4 pieces of bacon, cook crisp and crumbled
Thousand Island Dressing
- 1 cup mayonnaise (homemade is best!) Homemade recipe here.
- 1 Tbsp chili sauce
- 1 Tbsp ketchup
- 1 heaping tablespoon finely minced white onion
- 1 heaping tablespoon finely minced red bell pepper
- 1 heaping tablespoon relish (sweet or dill)
- 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tsp prepared horseradish, or horseradish cream
- Several squirts of Tabasco, to taste (use your favorite hot sauce)
- 1 tsp mustard
- 1 pinch celery seed
- 2 pinches paprika
- salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste
Instructions
- To make the dressing, mix all the ingredients together. Taste as you go to get the exact proportions the way you like them. Refrigerate the dressing until you are ready to use it. Make it ahead to give the flavors a chance to develop and mingle.
- For the salad, take a nice tight head of iceberg or bibb lettuce and cut it in quarters. Cut out the core and put each wedge on a salad plate and spoon the Thousand Island dressing liberally on top. Garnish with lots of crumbled bacon.