{"id":1934,"slug":"louis-dressing","title":"Louis Dressing","description":"Louis dressing is a salad dressing commonly used with seafood salads, such as Crab Louis and Shrimp Louis. It can also be used as a dip or sandwich spread, or many other uses. The dressing is creamy but has a little spicy kick. This is not the \"traditional\" recipe, but it is the easiest for untrained cooks to succeed at.","ingredients_raw":["1 cup (235 ml) mayonnaise","¼ cup (60 ml) cup mild salsa with green chile peppers","¼ cup (60 ml) ketchup","1 tablespoon (15 ml) lemon juice","1 ½ teaspoon (7 ml) worcestershire sauce","Hot sauce (e.g., Tabasco, Crystal), to taste"],"ingredients_norm":["mayonnaise","mild salsa with green chili pepper","ketchup","lemon juice","worcestershire sauce","hot sauce"],"steps":["Combine all ingredients in a blender, and process until smooth. The goal is to have a pink smooth sauce with little green flecks.","Pour the sauce into a bowl, cover, and chill in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes prior to use."],"categories":["Salad dressing recipes","Recipes using mayonnaise","Californian recipes","Recipes for salad dressing","Refrigerated recipes","Recipes using chile","Recipes using lemon juice","Recipes using hot sauce","Recipes using ketchup"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":35,"servings":"6 (1/4 cup each)","yield_text":"1 ½ cups","difficulty":"very easy","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Louis_Dressing","source_ref":"4516390","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Louis_Dressing&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"1bf10fa9baef526294a40529bb05c795736fa9fb775088c58b3504f65e90b956","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:07Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:07Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/louis-dressing"}