Louis dressing

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Template:Short description Template:Infobox food Louis dressing is a salad dressing based on mayonnaise, to which red chili sauce, minced green onions, and minced green chili peppers have been added. It is commonly used as a dressing for salads featuring seafood, such as a crab (Crab Louis<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>) or shrimp (Shrimp Louis).<ref name="wt">History of Salads and Salad Dressings</ref><ref name="td">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Origin

The origin of the dressing is disputed. The Olympic Club in Seattle, The Davenport Hotel in Spokane, Washington, Solari's Restaurant, Bergez-Frank's Old Poodle Dog Restaurant and the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, and the Bohemian in Portland all claim to be the home of the dressing, with the invention in either the 1900s or 1910s. In all cases, the original salad was made with Dungeness crab.<ref name="wt"/><ref name="td"/><ref>Peters, Erica J., San Francisco: A Food Biography. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013, p. 182.</ref>

From The American Heritage Cookbook published 1964:

The first five ingredients are combined and the whipped cream folded in.

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