This homemade honey mustard dressing recipe is simple to make and great to keep on hand. Featuring the perfect balance of sweetness and acidity, it's delicious as a dressing, marinade, or paired with all your favorite recipes!
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Featured Comment:
This is so good! Enjoying on my salad as I type this. I especially appreciate that the recipe is written by a registered dietitian and uses much less oil. I love all mustards, too, so it couldn't be more perfect. Thank you!
- Eric
Recipe Highlights
Versatile: Sweet and tangy, this honey mustard salad dressing really adds something special to a crisp green salad with brioche croutons. However, it's also great as a marinade, condiment, or honey mustard sauce for dipping with marinated venison steak, chicken, and BBQ venison sliders.
Easy: With minimal prep time and no cooking required, all you have to do is whisk the ingredients. This dressing is ready to use in 5 minutes!
Delicious: The best honey mustard dressing you'll ever taste, this homemade recipe is sweet, tangy, and easy to customize to suit your preferences.
Ingredients
- Mustards: You can make this dressing with a combination of mustards. However, it works best with one smooth mustard (like spicy brown) and one grainier mustard (like stone ground). The combination of textures is what gives this dressing its unique consistency. Feel free to experiment with yellow mustard and Dijon mustard, too.
- Apple Cider Vinegar: Apple cider vinegar gives this salad dressing a mildly acidic flavor. You can substitute other kinds of vinegar like white wine vinegar or white vinegar as well.
See recipe card for quantities.
Equipment
Recommended
Glass Jar
I prefer making salad dressings in a glass jar because it’s perfect for mixing, storing, and pouring all in one container!
How to Make Homemade Honey Mustard Dressing
This recipe for honey mustard salad dressing is so simple that you won't even need the recipe after you make it once! Since all of the ingredients are in equal proportions, it's easy to remember. Of course, you can adjust the ingredients to your tastes as well.
- Step 1: Gather the ingredients: apple cider vinegar, stone ground mustard, extra virgin olive oil, salt, pepper, spicy brown mustard, and honey.
- Step 2: Add all ingredients to a pint-sized glass jar such as a mason jar.
- Step 3: Screw the lid on tightly.
- Step 4: Shake until all ingredients are well-mixed.
- Step 5: Drizzle over your favorite salad and enjoy!
Pro Tip
This dressing can set up a bit in the fridge due to the honey and oil. Take it out of the fridge half an hour before serving to make it pourable.
How to Store Homemade Honey Mustard Dressing
This salad dressing can be stored in the fridge in an airtight container for up to 1 month.
Serving Suggestions
Making your own salad dressing allows you to customize flavors to your tastes and you can make as little or as much as you want!
Only need a few servings? Cool! Make a smaller batch. Feeding a crowd? Double or triple the recipe! Like your dressings a little more acidic? Great! Add some more vinegar. Whatever your reasoning for going homemade, this salad dressing might just be your new go-to!
For more simple homemade salad dressings try my Greek vinaigrette in this Greek antelope steak salad recipe or my citrus vinaigrette in my fennel orange salad.
FAQ
Honey mustard is a dipping sauce that is usually just a mixture of honey and mustard. Honey mustard dressing incorporates other ingredients like vinegar and oil. Some even contain ingredients like fresh lemon juice and Greek yogurt, too.
Olive oil in homemade salad dressing solidifies in the fridge which can make your salad dressing thick. If you leave the dressing out at room temperature for a few minutes before you serve it, it will become more fluid.
The main ingredients in salad dressing recipes are vinegar and oil. There are a lot of vinegar and oil combinations you can try and you can add other ingredients like honey and mustard in this recipe.
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Annie
📖 Recipe
Easy Homemade Honey Mustard Dressing Recipe
Equipment
- glass pint jar with lid
Ingredients
- ¼ cup stone ground mustard
- ¼ cup spicy brown mustard
- ¼ cup honey
- ¼ cup olive oil
- ¼ cup apple cider vinegar
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
Instructions
- Add all ingredients to a glass jar.
- Place lid on jar and close tightly.
- Shake jar until all ingredients are well dispersed.
- Refrigerate until ready to use. Enjoy!
Notes
- Since the ingredients are all in equal measurements (except the salt and pepper), you can easily make a smaller or larger batch.
- Dressing will last for up to one month in the fridge.
Eric says
*appreciates should be "appreciate that," sorry about the typo
Eric says
This is so good! Enjoying on my salad as I type this. I especially appreciates the recipe is written by a registered dietician and uses much less oil. I love all mustards, too, so it couldn't be more perfect. Thank you!
Annie Weisz says
Thank you so much, Eric! I'm so glad you enjoyed the salad dressing. It's my go-to and I keep a jar of it on hand at all times! The combination of mustards is my favorite part. Enjoy!