Perfect Honey Mustard Dressing
This honey mustard dressing recipe is so easy to prepare and tastes better than anything you’ll buy at the store! Prepare to start dipping everything in sight!
So, you know how I live in Illinois? AKA the frozen tundra. AKA the place where warmth goes to die. AKA where it physically hurts to be outside.
Yeah, there.
Well, it’s been all wintery and whatnot the past few months. Not my favorite thing, that’s for sure.
But what’s been extra bad about it is that my garage has gotten overwhelmingly disgusting. I mean, I don’t, like, sweep the garage on the regular or really care about anything other than that I be able to walk from my door to my car without tripping over old Amazon boxes and broken furniture that really needs to go to the dump. Also, it’d be great if it could not smell like old garbage.
It’s just gotten out of hand because it’s been way too cold to even think about doing anything other than opening the door and throwing stuff in a corner out there. The corner become one entire half of the garage and my poor husband has been parking in the driveway all winter.
Well, it was finally 50 degrees last weekend and the husband and I decided we’d go take care of some bidness. He was finishing up a project in the basement (we’re putting in a theater room! Follow along on Snapchat – my username is bunsinmyoven1!) and while he was doing that, I went to get ready for the garage cleaning.
Old sweatpants. Ratty t-shirt under an even rattier sweatshirt that was 3 sizes too big. Snow boots, because they’re fuzzy and warm and I didn’t want to deal with socks. No bra, because it was Sunday, guys. Nobody needs a bra on the weekends, right?
My husband walked upstairs, looked at me, and said, “You know we’re going to be cleaning with the garage door open, right? And there might be neighbors outside since it’s a nice day.”
I let him live.
But, I did make him start cleaning while I went to get ready. I took my time choosing a pretty outfit, trying on different shoes, and of course, re-applying my makeup and straightening my hair. After all, the neighbors might be out there. He was 90% done by the time I made it out the door.
Silly man.
This homemade honey mustard dressing recipe is perfect for dipping!
Anyway, I still love him, so I baked up our favorite oven baked chicken tenders for dinner. These chicken strips DO NOT taste like they were baked in an oven. They are crispy, crunchy, and perfectly buttery. I shared the recipe with you a long time ago, but I’m still asked about the sauce in the pictures on that recipe.
Well, I’ll be honest. It was just store bought honey mustard. I’ve upped my game in the sauce department these days, though. Homemade all the way, baby.
This homemade honey mustard dressing is super smooth and creamy, with just the right touch of sweetness. You’ll be drizzling it over salads and dunking everything from french fries to chicken strips all day long! I think you’re going to love it as much as we do!
If you love this honey mustard dressing recipe, try my fry sauce recipe too!
Honey Mustard Dressing
This honey mustard dressing recipe is so easy to prepare and tastes better than anything you'll buy at the store! Prepare to start dipping everything in sight!
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- 3 tablespoons yellow mustard
- 2 tablespoons honey plus more, as desired
- 1 tablespoon vinegar
- 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
Instructions
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Add all of the ingredients to a small bowl and stir well to combine.
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Taste and add more honey, if you prefer a sweeter dressing.
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Store in the fridge in a covered container for up to 1 week.
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Be sure to snag the recipe for my Oven Fried Chicken Strips, too!
Serve these with some battered french fries!
And for dessert, try my homemade brownies!
I love how thick it is…it IS perfect! Pinned!
Thanks, Trisha!
This is the best tasting honey mustard recipe I’ve ever made!!! It taste better than any restaurant made sauce and has an authentic gourmet flavor! I love it thanks for sharing
So glad you enjoyed, Ruby! Thanks for the review!
Well that sure backfired on him! I need to make this and those chicken fingers stat!
Ha! That will teach him! And you are right about the frozen tundra. I thought my hands might fall off trying to scrape my windshield this morning. Illinois, land of freezing cold winters and hot and muggy summers. Though I’d take hot and humid over so cold I can’t feel my toes while at the same time every bit of skin on my face is on fire any day!
I’m sure looking forward to hot and humid right now, but I’ll be complaining about it after a week or two. 😉
I love honey mustard dressing and this recipe certainly is easy enough…but one question please….should i assume the the vinegar is plain white vinegar or another type? Thank you
Sorry it’s taken me so long to get back to you! We’ve all had the flu this past week. 🙁
Anyway, yes, I just use plain white vinegar. 🙂
Honey and mustard go together like peanut butter and jelly. Or like bread and butter. I like the nice twist in this recipe!
How have I read your blog for so long and not realized you were in IL?! I’m in Champaign, so I understand your weather woes!
I have the hardest time getting my honey mustard *just right* – I’m looking forward to trying this one! I made your chocolate chip cookie dough fudge for Christmas and it was a huge hit – ended up having to make another batch for another party, it was so well loved! 🙂
Oh, we’re pretty close then! I’m in Pekin! 🙂
Hope you love the honey mustard as much as you loved the fudge.
Oh man I friggin love honey mustard dressing. Especially with chicken fingers! And this one looks so simple and delicious!!
Thanks, Heather!
I’ve been searching for the perfect honey mustard for YEARS! I am going to have to give this one a try! Thank you! 🙂
Hope you love it as much as we do!
I always make mine simila, I just don’t use vinegar and the black pepper.
This honey mustard looks prefect! Your photos are so gorgeous and really capture the greatness of your work! I love that this dressing is so easy to throw together with ingredients available in the kitchen.
Thanks!
I live in Illinois too – I understand perfectly! Except maybe the garage smelling like garbage part… Then again, I rarely go in there so I don’t really know what it smells like! LOLOL
This is simple enough to make. I’ve been looking for an easy recipe such as this.
Love to follow you and read your posts and recipes. About to make your oven baked chicken and honey mustard for a salad. Thanks from a friend here in East Texas. ?
I only used 1/4 cup of mayo (do not like mayo, at all), added three tablespoons of honey and used dijon mustard, left out the vinegar. (do not like vinegar either) This turned out wonderfully! Will absolutely make it again. Thanks!
Glad you liked it!
I made it. Love it! My son likes it sweeter so I added another tbs of honey. I will use this recipe again and again. Thanks!
I love the way this looks! Do you prefer using yellow mustard? Have you tried making the sauce with any other types, like a nice Dijon, either fine ground or whole grain? Thanks for sharing this, can’t wait to try it!
It’s great with both yellow or dijon mustard. I haven’t tried it with a more grainy mustard myself.
Oh my, so delicious!! Thank you for sharing!
Recipe states “Store in the fridge in a covered container for up to 1 week” but I’ve found if the Mayo and Mustard have good expiration dates and the sauce is stored/capped tightly it lasts a lot longer than a week.
I made this recipe on 1-13-18 and used the last of it tonight, I had saved my old HM sauce bottle, washed and air dried it and re-dated it when I refilled with this dressing/sauce/dip- it’s very versatile!
When canning this recipe, is it as I normally would for another other product or would there be a need to even do so?
OMG This honey mustard sauce is mega delicious
I love it ! I made it today for lunch we had chicken tender
And fries and my son almost left nothing for me ! Lol
So I made a new one for later ! Thank you so much !
I love cooking, baking etc.
Yay! Glad you two enjoyed it!
We have made this twice for chick3n stripa now. Best honey mustard dipping sauce ever. Whole family loves it. Thanks for a great recipe!
Glad it’s a hit! 🙂
My son likes honey mustard a little sweeter so i added maybe another tbsp of honey. Other than that I followed the recipe exactly and it turned out delicious! I’ll definitely be making this again!
These are SO great! I can’t believe how much they resemble perfect honey mustard….
The ingredients in this recipe are perfect as published! I didn’t change one thing. I used Kirkland organic honey, Heinz white vinegar, French’s yellow mustard, Heinz mayonnaise and Penzey’s black pepper.
I made one change in the assembly. Instead of mixing in a bowl, I used my NutriBullet to blend all the ingredients together into a creamy, smooth and delicious dressing. A blender or handheld emulsifier can be used to accomplish same.