I love a good dipping sauce, and this honey mustard sauce is the latest addition to my arsenal. It’s a little sweet, a little savory, and most of all, nice and creamy! It really helps cut through the umami flavors of meats, and the tanginess elevates all kinds of roasted vegetables.
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“The best homemade honey mustard! I didn’t have any Dijon mustard, used brown mustard instead. Nice tang, better than most restaurant and store-bought honey mustard.”
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Easiest Honey Mustard Recipe
Honey mustard sauce is an incredibly sweet, tangy, and creamy sauce made from simple ingredients like honey, mustard, mayonnaise, vinegar, and a couple of spices. It takes only a few minutes to make and can be used in several ways. I find the mayonnaise really adds to the texture, making it super rich and creamy, so even if you aren’t a mayo fan, don’t omit or substitute it. Once you make a batch, you’ll likely want to smear a little sauce on just about everything. It always has me licking the spoon!
This honey mustard sauce is the most versatile sauce to have on hand; it’s great for dipping or spreading on sandwiches, and it’s super quick and easy to whip up with pantry staples. The real clincher for me, though, is that it costs just pennies to make!
Recipe Success Tips and Variations
- Use both mustards. A combination of Dijon and yellow mustard adds a complex and slightly spicy flavor to the sauce. You can use whatever kinds of mustard you have on hand, but I particularly like this combination.
- Add a little spice. Add a pinch of cayenne pepper if you want more heat.
- Adjust the sweetness. If you prefer a more savory dip, reduce the amount of honey.
- Dipping and drizzling. This honey mustard sauce was made for dipping and drizzling. But some readers have also used it to marinate meat or add flavor to a sandwich or salad. It really does taste good on everything!
- Make it in advance and store.This dip will keep in the refrigerator for 4 to 5 days.
Honey Mustard Sauce
Cost $1.58 recipe / $0.26 serving
Ingredients
- ½ cup mayonnaise (113g, $0.80)
- 1 Tbsp Dijon mustard (15g, $0.06)
- 1 Tbsp yellow mustard (15g, $0.06)
- 3 Tbsp honey (63g, $0.56)
- 1 tsp apple cider vinegar (5g, $0.02)
- ⅛ tsp garlic powder (0.25g, $0.02)
- ⅛ tsp paprika (0.3g, $0.02)
- ⅛ tsp salt (0.75g, $0.02)
- black pepper (freshly cracked (about 5 cranks of a pepper mill) $0.02)
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Instructions
- Combine all the ingredients in a bowl and stir until smooth. Use immediately or refrigerate until ready to use.
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Combine all the ingredients: Combine ½ cup mayonnaise, 1 Tbsp Dijon mustard, 1 Tbsp yellow mustard, 3 Tbsp honey, 1 tsp apple cider vinegar, ⅛ tsp garlic powder, ⅛ tsp paprika, ⅛ tsp salt, and some freshly cracked pepper in a bowl.
Stir or whisk until smooth.
Store or serve: Serve with meats, roasted vegetables, sandwiches, and more. Seriously, though. It’s just as delicious and tangy as it looks. Time to start dipping—or drizzling over and and everything.
Serving Suggestions
This honey mustard sauce was made for dipping and drizzling. It’s great with homemade chicken nuggets, but it also works with sauteed green beans or ham and cheese sliders. The sweet and savory flavor profile really complements everything from chicken to pork to veggies, and it’s not too heavy, so it also elevates the flavors of a cobb salad and contrasts the earthy flavors of our beet salad well, too.
Storage Instructions
This tasty sauce should definitely be stored in the refrigerator. I don’t suggest keeping the sauce for more than 4-5 days, so make sure you adjust your batch size to the amount you plan on using. This recipe yields about ¾ cup of honey mustard sauce, but the quantity can be adjusted in the “servings” box in the recipe below. All of the ingredients will auto-adjust with the change in servings.
You can make this sauce a couple days in advance if you know you’ll need it for dipping and drizzling throughout the week!
Easy & tasty Honey Mustard! Thank you!
This has been my goto honey mustard recipe for years. My kids always ask me to make it, to go with chicken nuggets.
The only thing that I want to try to figure out, is how to make it a little bit thicker without compromising the flavor.
I’ve tried making honey mustard twice in the past and it ended up tasting either too tangy or too sweet. Now this one… this is PERFECTION! I love KFC/Subway honey mustard and this one here tastes a thousand times better. I will make this forever now!! Only thing I did different was using half of the vinegar and to make sure the honey spooks were FULL!
Delish! And so easy to make. Equally good with pork, roasted potatoes, and asparagus that happen to be on tonight’s menu. :-)
This actually tastes like Chic-Fil-A™ sauce. I did a blind test on my kid and they thought they were the same. Just needs a little bit of smoke and it would be impossible to tell the difference.
Delicious.
Seriously delicious and easy!!!
This was OUTSTANDING! When I first read comments about it tasting so good you’ll be licking the spoon and so forth, I thought, ‘not me.’ But, man, was I wrong. I did lick the spoon! No more store bought honey mustard for me. This will be my go to. I had everything needed without going to the store and it was fast to whisk up a batch. Love it!
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Very nice flavor. Not too sweet. I liked the flavor of using 2 different mustards. Don’t fo6to use the salt and pepper. It finished it off.
Hey there Beth, just wanted to share how much my family and I enjoyed the Honey mustard dip. Marinated a turkey tenderloin over night in the Honey Mustard dip and put in on the grill foe about 45 minutes.
Fantastic flavor
Great idea Donna! I’m trying this next grill day, thanks for the tip! 🌞
Was making some homemade buttermilk chicken tenders and realized I didn’t have anything to dip them in so I whipped this up in about 3 minutes using what I have on hand. I had everything except yellow mustard so I used double the Guldens Brown Mustard and had Hellmans Lite Mayo. This Honey Mustard was the BEST! Nice and tangy with the touch of Bragg’s Apple Cider Vinegar!
I wanted this kind of sauce for my grilled salmon and vegetables.. I found this recipe and literally whipped it up in 3 minutes and I was amazed at how great it was!! Very nice job!! 👏🏽👏🏽
My husband brought home a bucket of Lee’s boneless wings and forgot my honey mustard! So I quickly searched for a recipe and found this one. I whipped it up real quick and I was a happy camper! It tastes EXACTLY like Lee’s! I’ll be making this again and again!
Great recipe! I double mustard personally, all other proportions are perf imo.