This Keto Thousand Island Dressing is perfect to top your keto salad or spread in keto bread and make Big Macs or Reuben sandwiches at home! Bonus, this sugar-free salad dressing is gluten-free and paleo-friendly.
A thousand Island dressing is an American salad dressing mainly made of mayonnaise, ketchup, orange juice, paprika, pickles, and Tabasco. It’s a creamy orange sauce delicious with salad or to dip raw vegetables.
Ingredients and Substitutions
To make your keto thousand island dressing recipe, you need:
- Mayonnaise – Not all mayonnaise jars are keto-friendly because vegetable oils are not allowed on a keto diet. Choose avocado oil mayonnaise or olive oil mayonnaise for the best keto option.
- Sugar-free ketchup – make your own following my homemade ketchup recipe or use a store-bought version. You can also use tomato paste instead of sugar-free ketchup if preferred.
- Lemon juice or apple cider vinegar
- Erythritol – to add a touch of sweetness, combined with the above vinegar or lemon juice, it mimics the classic Worcestershire sauce flavor usually added in thousand dressing recipes. In fact, Worcestershire sauce is high in sugar and carbs, and it’s better to avoid it on a keto diet.
- Tabasco sauce or hot sauce for a spicy dressing, is optional.
- Dill pickles – regular recipe uses sweet pickle relish which contains sugar. In this keto version, we recommend dill pickles with no sugar added.
- White onion – finely chopped.
- Salt and pepper
How To Make Keto Thousand Island Dressing
It’s straightforward to make your own thousand island dressing at home.
All you need is to combine all the simple ingredients below in a small bowl until creamy!
Like many salad dressings, their flavors develop in the fridge, so pop the sauce in the refrigerator in a sealed glass mason jar and wait for at least 1 hour or overnight to appreciate all its flavors.
Storage Instructions
Store your keto salad dressing for up to 1 week in the fridge in a sealed jar.
Serving Suggestions
This is the best creamy dressing to add on top of :
Frequently Asked Questions
No, an authentic Thousand Island dressing from the grocery store is not keto-friendly. It contains ingredients that are high in carbs and sugar like:
– Sugar
– Modified starch or maize thickener.
– Vegetable oil – most store-bought salad dressings are made of canola oil. These processed oils are not recommended on a keto diet.
So to the question, is Thousand Island dressing ok on the keto diet the answer is no for the store-bought version but 100% yes for the homemade Thousand Island dressing recipe!
A store-bought dressing contains between 3.8 grams and 5 grams of net carbs, mostly sugar, per 2 tablespoons. While this amount of net carbs sounds small, it quickly adds up on a keto diet where you limit your daily net carbs to 20-25 grams. However, homemade thousand island keto recipes only get 0.6 grams of net carbs per 2 tablespoons!
Both salad dressings are pretty similar. Both are made with mayonnaise and ketchup as the base ingredients. However, Russian salad dressing is spicier, using horseradish instead of sweet pickles and chili sauce.
Yes, you can! Use this recipe and replace the mayonnaise with egg-free mayonnaise. There are plenty of healthy vegan mayonnaise recipes available at the store made from Aquafaba – chickpea brine. While chickpeas are not keto-friendly, 1 cup of chickpea brine contains only 2 grams of net carbs, and it makes delicious vegan keto mayonnaise.
More Keto Salad Dressing Recipes
If you love keto salad recipes for a quick keto lunch, I have plenty of other keto salad dressing recipes for you to try:
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Serving: 1 tablespoonCalories: 65.8 kcal (3%)Carbohydrates: 0.4 gFiber: 0.1 gNet Carbs: 0.3 gProtein: 0.1 gFat: 7 g (11%)Saturated Fat: 1.1 g (7%)Trans Fat: 0.1 gCholesterol: 3.9 mg (1%)Sodium: 167 mg (7%)Potassium: 5.8 mgSugar: 0.4 gVitamin A: 14.1 IUVitamin B12: 0.1 µg (2%)Vitamin C: 0.5 mg (1%)Vitamin D: 0.1 µg (1%)Calcium: 2 mgIron: 0.1 mg (1%)Magnesium: 0.4 mgZinc: 0.1 mg (1%)
About The Author
Carine Claudepierre
Hi, I’m Carine, the food blogger, author, recipe developer, published author of a cookbook, and founder of Sweet As Honey.
I have an Accredited Certificate in Nutrition and Wellness obtained in 2014 from Well College Global (formerly Cadence Health). I’m passionate about sharing all my easy and tasty recipes that are both delicious and healthy. My expertise in the field comes from my background in chemistry and years of following a keto low-carb diet. But I’m also well versed in vegetarian and vegan cooking since my husband is vegan.
I now eat a more balanced diet where I alternate between keto and a Mediterranean Diet
Cooking and Baking is my true passion. In fact, I only share a small portion of my recipes on Sweet As Honey. Most of them are eaten by my husband and my two kids before I have time to take any pictures!
All my recipes are at least triple tested to make sure they work and I take pride in keeping them as accurate as possible.
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