This homemade honey mustard dressing recipe is so easy to prepare and tastes better than anything you’ll buy at the store! You’ll just need five ingredients and a couple of minutes to whisk it together. Prepare to start dipping everything in sight!
I’m not going to lie – I’ve been a ranch girl most of my life.
(Especially this homemade ranch dressing!)
But this homemade honey mustard dressing is having a moment in my family.
It’s 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!
Honestly, I’ve been on a kick where I’m creating our dinner menu around the dressing/dip…it’s becoming a problem. 😉
How to make homemade honey mustard sauce
Add mayonnaise, mustard, honey, vinegar, and black pepper to a small bowl.
Whisk until smooth and creamy.
Yep, that’s it! It honestly doesn’t get easier than whisking together a few things you probably already have in your kitchen!
Storing honey mustard
Honey mustard does have mayonnaise, which means you’ll want to store it in the fridge.
We keep ours in a mason jar so that it’s ready to grab and go whenever we like.
We don’t keep ours longer than a week, but I am admittedly very conservative when it comes to food safety. It’s likely safe for a few weeks, assuming all ingredients used are fresh.
Recipes that go great with honey mustard
Be sure to snag the recipe for my Oven Fried Chicken Strips, it is the classic dish for honey mustard. And these chicken strips don’t taste like they are from an oven – they taste fried!
Serve these with some battered french fries!
If fries aren’t your style we love ranch roasted potatoes and yes, ranch + honey mustard is the perfect combo!
Honey mustard dressing works very well with a typical side salad.
For a lower carb meal serve it with breaded baked pork chops.
Honey Mustard Dressing
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
- Add all of the ingredients to a small bowl and stir well to combine.
- Taste and add more honey, if you prefer a sweeter dressing.
- Store in the fridge in a covered container for up to 1 week.
Tips & Notes:
Nutrition Information:
This recipe was originally published in September 2016. It was updated with new photos in May 2020.
If you love this honey mustard dressing recipe, try my fry sauce recipe too!
And for dessert, try my homemade brownies!
Trisha @ Home Sweet Homemade says
I love how thick it is…it IS perfect! Pinned!
Karly says
Thanks, Trisha!
Ruby says
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
Karly says
So glad you enjoyed, Ruby! Thanks for the review!
Julie @ Julie's Eats & Treats says
Well that sure backfired on him! I need to make this and those chicken fingers stat!
Carlee says
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!
Karly says
I’m sure looking forward to hot and humid right now, but I’ll be complaining about it after a week or two. 😉
Fal says
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
Karly says
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. 🙂
Ethan W. says
Honey and mustard go together like peanut butter and jelly. Or like bread and butter. I like the nice twist in this recipe!
Rachel says
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! 🙂
Karly says
Oh, we’re pretty close then! I’m in Pekin! 🙂
Hope you love the honey mustard as much as you loved the fudge.
Heather @ Boston Girl Bakes says
Oh man I friggin love honey mustard dressing. Especially with chicken fingers! And this one looks so simple and delicious!!
Karly says
Thanks, Heather!
Laura says
I’ve been searching for the perfect honey mustard for YEARS! I am going to have to give this one a try! Thank you! 🙂
Karly says
Hope you love it as much as we do!
Donna Singh says
I always make mine simila, I just don’t use vinegar and the black pepper.
Rahul @samosastreet.com says
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.
Karly says
Thanks!
Kathleen Stone says
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
Brian says
This is simple enough to make. I’ve been looking for an easy recipe such as this.
Ruth Ann Rodieck says
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. ?
Christie says
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!
Karly says
Glad you liked it!
Kristen says
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!
Billy says
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!
Karly says
It’s great with both yellow or dijon mustard. I haven’t tried it with a more grainy mustard myself.
Lisa Browning says
Oh my, so delicious!! Thank you for sharing!
Charo Tchichi says
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!
Barry McKay says
When canning this recipe, is it as I normally would for another other product or would there be a need to even do so?
Wanda says
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.
Karly says
Yay! Glad you two enjoyed it!
Cinnamon A Flowers says
We have made this twice for chick3n stripa now. Best honey mustard dipping sauce ever. Whole family loves it. Thanks for a great recipe!
Karly says
Glad it’s a hit! 🙂
Grace says
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!
Anamika @ Supplement Crunch says
These are SO great! I can’t believe how much they resemble perfect honey mustard….
Barbara says
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.
Bethany Forster says
This recipe is absolutely amazing! My husband and I are very picky when it comes to honey mustard. I have made this recipe 3 times in one week! It reminds us of our favorite diners honey mustard. It is soooo tasty, we added the extra honey as was noted. Very easy and quick to whip up. I would highly recommend this dressing.
Karly says
Yay! Love that you found the one! 🙂
Jen says
That was so good on our fried chicken salad last night! Perfect for a hot spring night! Thanks for (yet another) delicious recipe!
Karly says
Mm, fried chicken salad sounds delicious! Glad you enjoyed the recipe!
Susan says
We’ve used this recipe many times. Recently we have resorted to store bought honey mustard. I love the oven fried chicken that was pictured in the original post. The chicken in the new pictures looks different. Is there a difference?
Karly says
Hi Susan! I used frozen chicken strips in these pictures – just in a hurry. 😉