You don’t need mayonnaise to make a beautiful Honey Mustard Dressing! Mine is made with just mustard, honey, cider vinegar and oil. That’s all you need to make a beautiful creamy Honey Mustard Dressing that transforms even the plainest of salads into wow!
I use this Honey Mustard Dressing for salads but it’s definitely thick enough to use as a dipping sauce too. Though truth be told, my Honey Mustard Dipping sauce is made with mayonnaise and no vinegar. 🙂 But I do use this for dipping too!
My friends and I always say that a great salad comes down to the dressing. It doesn’t matter how fancy pants the ingredients in the salad are. If the dressing is a fail, then the salad is a fail.
But THIS dressing is always a guaranteed hit!!
PS The bottle in the photo above may be familiar to Australians. It’s sold at Woolworths, branded by a certain well known celebrity chef who shall remain unnamed. However, it’s very impractical for dressings. Firstly because you have to hold your finger on the top of the pourer when you shake it. Secondly, the bottle has to be more than half full in order for the dressing to pour into the funnel. Humph. Not happy!
I do like to experiment with dressings, but when it comes down to it, I always fall back on my sure-fire winners. And Honey Mustard Dressing is definitely falls into that category. It truly does make everything better. Whether just used to dress plain leafy greens, or with a few cherry tomatoes added, which is all I did (see photo at top), or for a salad with more substantial ingredients. Like my Roasted Sweet Potato Salad. This dressing would be fantastic with that!
Though made with honey, this is not an overly sweet dressing. I’m more of a savoury than sweet girl, so my savoury foods with sweetness in them always errs more towards savoury than sweet. It sounds like there is a lot of honey in this, but actually, there’s a lot of sour too from the vinegar and mustard so it balances it out.
This Honey Mustard Dressing keeps for weeks in the fridge so it’s a fantastic one to make a big batch of to have one hand for quick salads, both side salads and more substantial meal salads! – Nagi x
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Honey Mustard Dressing
Ingredients
Big Batch to Keep (1 cup)
- 1/4 cup Dijon mustard
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1/4 cup cider vinegar
- 1/4 cup vegetable or olive oil
- 1 tsp salt
- Black pepper
Single side salad batch (makes 1/3 cup, enough for a side salad for 4 ppl)
- 1 1/2 tbsp Dijon mustard
- 1 1/2 tbsp honey
- 1 1/2 tbsp cider vinegar
- 1 1/2 tbsp vegetable or olive oil
- 1/4 tsp salt
- Black pepper
Instructions
- Place ingredients in a jar and shake well until you can't see any honey on the base of the jar. Adjust sweet (honey), sour (vinegar) and salt to taste.
- Keep for 3 weeks in the fridge in an airtight jar. (As long as the shelf life of your ingredients is greater than 3 weeks).
- Single side salad: Drizzle over 4 big handfuls of leafy greens and other salad of choice.
Recipe Notes:
Don’t miss all the other Ready To Use Dressings I shared! These all last for 2+ weeks, most for 3 weeks. Find them all here.
So delicious! Another fabulous recipe and super easy!
i’ve just made your poached honey chicken– i’m 76yrs -live alone–would recipes for two –one for today ,another tomorrow…. it would be lovely if you can help—terrence
I forgot to give it 5 stars, I’d have given 10 if had the choice!
Thanks so much Patricia ❤️
Never left a recipe review before but this is so delicious I had to!!! So easy to make and the taste is just perfect! Thank you Nagi
You have some good recipes! I just made this dressing for a salad tonight, but I’ve made others and they are all good.
Great recipes
I’m so glad you love them Bunny! N x
Very tasty made it to go with mustard chicken legs broccoli and smashed potatoes
Hello, I am super excited to make this. Can I use bottled honey dijon mustard instead? Thank you!
Thank you for this lovely recipe. This takes already-great salads up a notch or two! I’ve made a big batch today and am looking forward to the salad combinations that it can go with 🙂
Wahoo, that’s great to hear Rachael! N x
You’ve made me a total convert to homemade dressing. I used to find making my own dressing really hit or miss, but you’ve got a winner in this one! I made a big batch about once a week as it’s a favorite in my house. I also love your French dressing, so I’ve really upped my consumption of Dijon, and that seems like a really luxurious place to be. 🙂 Thank you, Nagi!
Best and easiest dressing I have ever made. Fantastic!! Thanks, Lyn
I have been cooking for over two decades and one of the things I love, lOvE, LOVE about it, is that every now and then you find a recipe that seems so simple and so straightforward, that it almost seems like cheating… and you’re like, nah, can’t be that easy, can it? Can’t taste THAT good, can it?
CAN IT?!?!?!?!
This is only the second dressing recipe I have actually followed (the first was Deb Perelman’s/Smitten Kitchen lemon tahini dressing for carrot salad) and this is quicker, easier, lasts longer and is just better.
Fantastic on plain salad mix or grated carrot if you’re in a hurry to bang dinner on the table, I look forward to trying it on roast vege and potato/kumara based salads too.
Yet another winner, thanks Nagi 😀
Hi Naji, I have used many of your recipes and love everyone of them, your recipe directions make it so easy, love your site so much
Thanks so much Caroline! N x
I love your blog!! Thanks for the Dozer video- sweet!!
Thanks so much Lainie 🙂
The Honey Mustard Dressing is a real winner. Thank you for a great recipe. Teamed the dressing with, spiraled carrot, diced celery, sliced red capsicum, oakleaf lettuce, chopped red onion, solanato tomatoes and sliced avocado. Yum
Nailed it Peter!
This dressing tastes phenomenal! I couldn’t stop eating it! Thanks for a tasty and great recipe!
You’re so welcome Cheryl!