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.
My favourite dressing. I always have some of this made up, and use it regularly. So simple, downright delicious.
You can also try different mustards and vinegars to play with the flavours to your liking.
My favourite alteration is to use German wild mustard instead of Dijon. White wine vinegar also works well if you don’t have cider vinegar.
Delicious. Even my picky non-mustard-loving kids like it.
The proportions make it dead simple. Make it once or twice and you can do it off the top of your head.
You know you’re amazing! You work so hard to perfect recipes. I just swing on your coattails (?) and use this recipe on all sorts of salads. (Heaps of other recipes too). My summer thank you.
I love this dressing
When ever I stay with friends I make this dressing
It’s wonderful that it’s a quarter of a cup for everything and ingredients that everyone has in their pantry
Also makes a nice gift
Thanks for yet another top shelf recipe
Buen provecho
How long does this store in fridge? There is no 2nd note.
Do you think this would taste nice with a pumpkin, rocket, fetta and pine nuts salad?
Looks great, Nagi! Could I use maple syrup instead of honey? Always on hand in this Canadian household 😛
A little tip when measuring the sauce ingredients – measure the oil first then honey and mustard and they will slide off the 1/4 cup/tablespoon.
Great tip. One that I follow too
So easy and delicious!
We love this dressing, but I couldn’t find the nutritional info. I would greatly appreciate it
Is there a way to have it thicker as it would be an amazing dipping sauce but i find it a tad to runny.
Kate, if you want it thicker, use mayonnaise instead of olive oil (or 1/3 mayonnaise and 2/3 oil).
This is a fantastic dressing, and there’s frequently a jar of it in my fridge.
This week, just for shigs, I used chili honey. Good stuff!
Chili honey is the bomb Frances!!! N x
Hi Nagi, how long does the dressing store in the fridge?
Hi Emma – that’s in Note 2 of the recipe! N x
There is only Note 1, no Note 2.
Nagi, I love the honey mustard dressing, and make it quite often.
I land up making my dressings in old Vegemite jars, and have been wondering where you get those jars from, they look lovely.
They are from a few different places Pam – just collected along the way! N x
Fab dressing…love it…goes with all my salads:)
Hi Nagi, your recipes are just wonderful. We have tried the lamb rogan josh, the veggie burgers, Pad See Ew, the crispy sweet and sour pork and the Vietnamese caramel pork.. and of course this lovely dressing. All of them have been so delicious, so much like you hope those flavours and textures to be and the recipes themselves are detailed and easy to follow. We are huge fans of your website.
Absolutely love ❤ this dressing. I’ve made it over 10 times now. And the big batch is terrific to have on standby in the fridge.
every time i make one of your recipes they turn out perfectly.
My daughter in law and i love discussing which of you recipes which of you recipes we have just tried.
Just made your Honey Mustard Dressing Nagi. Beautiful! It reminds me of a friend’s dressing that we used to drink from the bottom of the dish after we had finished the salad 😀. I used half lemon juice snd half vinegar as I have a glut of lemons.
Just made your Honey Mustard Dressing Nagi. Beautiful! It reminds me of a friend’s dressing that we used to drink from the bottom of the dish after we had finished the salad 😀. I used half lemon juice snd half vinegar as I have a glut of lemons.