This easy homemade Honey Mustard Sauce recipe only needs 6 ingredients! You’re only a few minutes away from making your favorite dipping sauce right at home!
Easy Homemade Honey Mustard Sauce
ONE of my favorite things today: Honey Mustard Sauce! Delicious and simple, smooth and creamy dipping sauce that also serves as a salad dressing!
I could eat my screen.
Hello hello, friends! It’s Monday and I’m really in a chocolate cake type of mood, and since I also have a full day of work + back-to-school shopping + soccer practice, I think that’s more than a good enough reason to tackle both, chocolate AND cake.
But first, Honey Mustard and all the things that you can dip IN IT.
Look at this dreamy and creamy little sauce! How can we survive one more moment just looking at it on our screen? It needs to appear in our hands, STAT.
Lemme ask you a question, though. Do you ever ask your waiter about how your food was prepared and what ingredients were used? I do that. A LOT. I think I embarrass my friends and husband, but do I care? nope. I’m a food blogger – they should accept me for who I am, gosh darn it!
A while back, like years and years, I was at a Baker’s Square restaurant (are those still around?!) and ordered my usual chicken fingers with honey mustard. This particular time, though, the honey mustard sauce tasted even better than ever before. All I wanted to do was drink up the sauce.
When the waiter came back, I had to ask – how do you make this?!? He went back to the kitchen and returned with a piece of paper that said “secret recipe, BUT here’s my own…”
Ingredients for Honey Mustard Sauce
- Yellow Mustard
- Dijon Mustard
- Mayonnaise
- Vinegar
- salt, pepper, cayenne pepper
(See recipe card below for ingredient amounts.)
The chef couldn’t give me the restaurant’s recipe, but gave me his own, which was just as good!
I have been making it almost exactly as his recipe with very few tweaks for the past 10 years and we totally love it. It’s wildly delicious.
Tips and Variations
- I like to change this up sometimes and add yogurt instead of mayonnaise when I want to use it as a salad dressing.
- Also, for a healthier spin, I have used Hellmann’s Cholesterol-Free and Egg-Free Sandwich Spread in place of the mayonnaise.
- I especially like to make this when we have company because you can serve it with anything from chicken nuggets to pretzel bites, to raw veggies. Sweet and tangy, this homemade take on a classic appeals to both, kids and adults.
Now all I want to do is make one massive bowl of Honey Mustard Sauce with a side of chicken fingers. Some chicken nuggets, too. Some carrots! Zucchini! Some asparagus?!?
Okay I’ll stop.
ENJOY!
Honey Mustard Sauce Recipe
Ingredients
- ¼ cup mayonnaise
- ¼ cup dijon mustard
- ¼ cup honey
- 1 tablespoon yellow mustard
- 1 tablespoon white vinegar
- ⅛ teaspoon sweet paprika
- salt and pepper, to taste (optional)
Instructions
- Combine all the ingredients in a small bowl, except salt and pepper, and whisk until well combined.
- Taste for seasonings and adjust accordingly; add salt and pepper if needed.
- Store it in an airtight container and keep it refrigerated.
Notes
- I like to change it up sometimes and add yogurt instead of mayonnaise when I want to use it as a salad dressing. Also, I have used Hellmann’s Cholesterol-Free and Egg-Free Sandwich Spread for a healthier spin instead of the mayonnaise.
- Cover and store in the refrigerator for up to 1 month.
Nutrition
Nutritional info is an estimate and provided as courtesy. Values may vary according to the ingredients and tools used. Please use your preferred nutritional calculator for more detailed info.
How can it be made thicker?
We loved the taste but it ran over the plate into other foods.
Sure. You can try to add more mayonnaise or more mustard, or use a honey with a thicker consistency or stir in less honey. Try these couple of different ways to reach the desired consistency.
Hello from New Zealand, I have been searching for such recipe and this one of yours seems to be the one I want to try. However, this yellow mustard, would that be the tangy non-hot mustard and not the English mustard? I need to make this recipe of yours and want to get it right! Thank you for sharing!
Hi!
Yellow mustard is not hot and it’s not English mustard, for sure. Click for 👉 yellow mustard on Amazon. FYI, this is an affiliate link. I hope this helps.
First time I made this I didnt have any dijon mustard so u sed whole grain it still came out well but I am about to try a new mix by using half wholegrain mustard and half dijon. I live in Britain and have trouble getting things like honey mustard dip and red and green pepper jelly. If anyone has an easy recipe for pepper jelly I’d love to try it.
So good and so easy! I halved the recipe and made it with maple syrup instead since I didn’t have any honey on hand. Still turned out delicious!
I am very happy you enjoyed it! THANK YOU! 🙂
I made this sauce on Christmas Eve to go with my homemade chicken strips, and it was a HUGE hit. Everyone commented on how delicious it was and said it tasted even better than restaurant honey mustard sauces. I will definitely make this recipe again! Thank you!!
Looks delicious to me, will definitely give it a try.
How about silken tofu instead of mayo or yogurt to make it dairy-free?
Yogurt is dairy-free now? Hmmmm
Hi how long can this sauce be stored in the fridge for and can it be frozen. TIA
Just made this – SOOOOO good! I wish I would rate this recipe 10 stars! Will definitely be a new staple with my chicken! Thanks Katerina!
My all-time favorite salad dressing. The one I usually buy from store has yellow mustard seeds in as well, so I’m wondering how much I should put in? Please advise. Thank you. Fowzia, Cape Town.
I tried the honey mustard recipe and it came out really good !!
I’ll never buy more bottled sauce !!! Thank you it was pretty helpful
I get Honey Mustard when I sometimes order chicken tenders. It isn’t spicy at all {that’s the way I can eat it, because of all the medicine I take I can’t eat anything spicy at all. It will burn my mouth. I bought some from the grocery store and it is very spicy. I just want to know if your recipe is spicy or not. It really looks good.
Hi!
It isn’t spicy, but there is paprika in it which does have a hint of spicy, but it’s not noticeable.
Amazing! Best honey mustard I’ve ever had. I licked the bowl clean when I was done. I was out of honey mustard and I was making a chicken salad with grapes and apples and the recipe called for honey mustard so I used your recipe. My goodness it is so good thank you for putting this recipe on your website
Hi, my sauce came out much darker than this and I would like to know what I could do to lighten it, I like to follow the instructions along with the pictures so I’m quite unnerved it did not come out the same
Hi!
I don’t know why it would come out darker – did you use red vinegar instead of white vinegar? Maybe it wasn’t dijon mustard and it was brown mustard?
Can this be served hot?
It looks delicious, but there is no such thing as Fat Free Mayonnaise, then it ain’t Mayonnaise! Don’t fear Fat, fear Carbs!
My granddaughter says this is the best ever!! I must agree. thank you!!
ican’t find how much honey to use in your honey mustard sauce.. Did I miss it somewhere? Wanted to make it for a luncheon soon.
Hi Nancy!! That’s a 1/4 of a cup.
Big, medium og small cup ?
Over here we tend to use exact measurements like 25 grams or 50 milliliter.
How much is a cup ?
Thank you from Denmark
Hi! I have no idea what it would be in ml or gr, but 1/4 cup is roughly around 4 tablespoons, and one whole cup of mayonnaise is about 230 grams according to the mayonnaise container that I’m looking at right now. 🙂 And it says that 1 tablespoon of mayo is 14 grams. Does that help? I hope! 😀
Thank you…
I’ll give it a try
Initially it says use cayenne pepper – but then the picture and the printable recipe instructions say paprika. Which is correct?
Hi Jenn! Yes, the cook at the restaurant suggested using cayenne and that is why I said that in the post – I was quoting his recipe – but I like using paprika instead, because of the smokiness that it adds to the overall taste. 🙂
Why cant I print this recipe?
Hi Renee! Is the print button on the recipe card not working for you? Please let me know. Thank you!
The print button is not working for me either
if you read the ingredients on fat-free items, you’ll see how many more chemicals they have then full-fat. They have found that you’re better off eating the full-fat. Fat-free actually cause weight gain.
This dip looks amazing! I wanna dip dip dip!
I love honey mustard! I’ve been looking for a great recipe to make it at home!
I always want to ask how they make things when I go out to eat too! This sauce looks perfect for so many things.Can’t wait to try it!
I want to dip all the things!! This looks so creamy and perfect, just how honey mustard should be!
I LOVE homemade honey mustard. It’s my favorite dip for chicken tenders!
LOVE homemade honey mustard sauce!
The sauce looks SO good.
I love honey mustard so much I think I could literally drink it! This would also be awesome on grilled chicken burgers, I’ll have to give it a try this week!