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Home Side Salads

Honey Mustard Dressing

By:Nagi
Published:7 Dec '16Updated:13 Nov '20
90 Comments
Recipe v

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!

Honey Mustard Dressing - guaranteed crowd pleaser, made with honey, mustard, cider vinegar and olive oil. Keeps for 3 weeks. www.recipetineats.com

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!!

Honey Mustard Dressing - guaranteed crowd pleaser, made with honey, mustard, cider vinegar and olive oil. Keeps for 3 weeks. www.recipetineats.com

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!

Roasted Sweet Potato Salad - with arugula/rocket, pecans, goats cheese or feta, a sprinkle of bacon and a beautiful Honey Lemon dressing. www.recipetineats.com

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

Honey Mustard Dressing - guaranteed crowd pleaser, made with honey, mustard, cider vinegar and olive oil. Keeps for 3 weeks. www.recipetineats.com

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Honey Mustard Dressing - guaranteed crowd pleaser, made with honey, mustard, cider vinegar and olive oil. Keeps for 3 weeks. www.recipetineats.com

Honey Mustard Dressing

Author: Nagi | RecipeTin Eats
Prep: 5 minutes mins
Total: 5 minutes mins
Salad
4.91 from 30 votes
Servings1 cup
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Creamy, tangy with a touch of sweet. A true crowd pleaser, use for leafy greens and roasted vegetables. It goes fantastic with my Roasted Sweet Potato Salad!

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:

1. You might think 1 tsp of salt is a lot but this dressing needs it because of the intensity of the flavours of the ingredients. And also once the dressing is drizzled over salad and tossed, the salt per serving is actually very little.
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90 Comments

  1. Pat Rolt says

    June 29, 2023 at 12:49 pm

    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.

    Reply
  2. carrie says

    May 23, 2023 at 8:52 am

    5 stars
    So easy and delicious!

    Reply
  3. Kate says

    January 15, 2023 at 1:43 pm

    We love this dressing, but I couldn’t find the nutritional info. I would greatly appreciate it

    Reply
  4. Kate says

    June 20, 2022 at 7:10 pm

    Is there a way to have it thicker as it would be an amazing dipping sauce but i find it a tad to runny.

    Reply
    • Pat Rolt says

      August 23, 2023 at 11:56 am

      Kate, if you want it thicker, use mayonnaise instead of olive oil (or 1/3 mayonnaise and 2/3 oil).

      Reply
  5. Frances says

    April 10, 2022 at 3:09 pm

    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!

    Reply
    • Nagi says

      April 10, 2022 at 4:59 pm

      Chili honey is the bomb Frances!!! N x

      Reply
  6. Emma says

    March 19, 2022 at 9:57 pm

    Hi Nagi, how long does the dressing store in the fridge?

    Reply
    • Nagi says

      March 20, 2022 at 11:28 pm

      Hi Emma – that’s in Note 2 of the recipe! N x

      Reply
      • Pat Rolt says

        June 29, 2023 at 12:47 pm

        There is only Note 1, no Note 2.

        Reply
  7. Pam says

    January 19, 2022 at 3:36 pm

    4 stars
    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.

    Reply
    • Nagi says

      January 19, 2022 at 11:19 pm

      They are from a few different places Pam – just collected along the way! N x

      Reply
  8. Selena M.L Oh says

    January 10, 2022 at 2:15 am

    Fab dressing…love it…goes with all my salads:)

    Reply
  9. J Shev says

    December 25, 2021 at 9:40 am

    5 stars
    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.

    Reply
  10. Maria says

    December 19, 2021 at 8:25 pm

    5 stars
    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.

    Reply
  11. Gloria Greaves says

    December 13, 2021 at 9:57 am

    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.

    Reply
  12. Jill Taylor says

    October 17, 2021 at 6:56 pm

    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.

    Reply
  13. Jill Taylor says

    October 17, 2021 at 6:53 pm

    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.

    Reply
  14. Lisa M says

    August 26, 2021 at 4:43 pm

    5 stars
    Yum – just delicious added to a Rocket and Walnut salad

    Reply
  15. susan says

    July 12, 2021 at 5:15 am

    5 stars
    I’ve made this recipe many times. I love the combo of the honey & warm mustard. goes great on anything, lately I’ve been using it on a quinoa summer salad. YUMM!

    Reply
  16. Lori says

    June 17, 2021 at 1:27 am

    Wow! Excellent dressing. The only ingredient that I changed was to use 1/3 cup of honey to reduce some of the tang. I can’t wait to have friends over to let them try the dressing!

    Reply
  17. Peter says

    May 22, 2021 at 8:54 am

    Love this dressing. It’s my standby salad dresser. So quick and simple.

    Reply
  18. Katie says

    May 10, 2021 at 9:21 am

    5 stars
    This dressing is so simple and tasty!

    Reply
  19. James says

    March 10, 2021 at 1:57 pm

    5 stars
    I made this the other day as a suggestion to go with the poached chicken. I thought the dressing was the best part, and even better on the salad I just had for lunch. So so easy to make, especially if you have a bottle with measurements on it, just 60 ml increments of each ingredient, close and shake it up. I used Maille a l’ancienne whole grain mustard and it added such a great texture. Thanks!

    Reply
  20. Anna Tran says

    January 19, 2021 at 5:15 pm

    So nice and so delicious
    Thank you so much Nagi

    Reply
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