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This honey mustard dressing recipe is awesome! It's tangy, sweet, and so easy to make. It's made with simple ingredients and only takes a few minutes of your time. Whip up a batch today and make that salad extra delicious.
Why Make Your Own Salad Dressing?
When you make salad dressing at home, you get to decide what goes in, and what stays out. Have you ever wanted to try a new flavor combination in your salad dressing? Maybe you like things on the spicier side and want to add an extra kick. Or maybe you want to experiment with a new flavor combination?
Related: 5 Reasons to Always Make Your Own Salad Dressing
At the store you take a big gamble trying something new. Because what if you don't like it? Then you're stuck with a big bottle that will just sit and take up space in your fridge.
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Ingredients used in this recipe
- Olive oil or avocado oil - ditch the unhealthy vegetable oils and go with this olive oil or avocado oil.
- Honey - Use this kind for an extra boost of nutrients.
- Mustard - use your favorite kind. We like Dijon or yellow mustard for this recipe.
- Salt - We like this kind because the trace minerals are still in the salt.
tools used in this recipe
- Mason jar - mix, serve, store all in one jar! Perfect. This size works perfect for this recipe.
- Salad bowl & tongs - Make your salad even more special with this beautiful wood bowl & tongs set on Amazon.
- Measuring cups & spoons - We recently upgraded to these cups and spoons so the labels don't wear off over time (PLUS...no plastic!)
What's Not in this dressing?
You won't find any refined oils or preservatives in this homemade salad dressing. But you will in the store bought stuff. If you look on the back of store bought salad dressing, you'll likely find some of these ingredients (maybe all of them) in the list of ingredients.
- soybean oil, vegetable oil, or canola oil
- sugar, high fructose corn syrup, or corn syrup
- modified food starch
- preservatives
Read more about 10 surprising processed foods to avoid here.
More Reasons to make your own salad dressing
When you have honey, mustard, and olive oil in your cupboard (you probably do), you can make this honey mustard salad dressing faster than you can pick it out at the store.
It's also WAY cheaper to make salad dressing at home than it is to buy a bottle at the store. And if you're anything like me, you don't like wasting money. I recently enrolled in an awesome online course to help me trim the costs in our grocery budget even more. And let me tell you...it's been AWESOME. I can't recommend it highly enough. Check it out here.
Related: 5 Reasons To NEVER Buy Salad Dressing Again.
And if you still need another reason to make your own salad dressing...consider the environment! When you make this salad dressing at home, you won't have another empty plastic bottle to throw away or recycle. Just use a mason jar and store it in your fridge.
How to make Honey Mustard Salad Dressing
I like to mix it and store it in the same container. So if you're using a mason jar to store it, get it out now. Mix the honey and mustard. Then mix in the olive oil (you can use avocado oil if you'd rather, although I wouldn't recommend vegetable oil or canola oil).
This recipe will make about one cup of salad dressing. The perfect amount to store in half-pint mason jars. We love these jars for condiments. If you prefer wide mouth, these are the way to go.
Where to use your honey mustard dressing?
Now that you have a bottle of delicious homemade honey mustard salad dressing, you get to use it! Obviously you can use it on any salad (I particularly like the honey mustard and apple flavor combination). You can also use it as a sauce for roasted veggies (like these brussels sprouts) or a dipping sauce for raw veggies at your next party.
Looking for more delicious homemade salad dressing recipes?
4 Ingredient Honey Mustard Salad Dressing
A simple and delicious sweet and tangy honey mustard salad dressing.
Ingredients
- 2 Tablespoons honey
- 6 Tablespoons mustard (use any mustard you like)
- 8 Tablespoons (or ½ cup) extra virgin olive oil
- Salt, to taste.
Instructions
- Mix honey and mustard together in your mason jar
- Pour the oil in a little at a time and stir to combine.
- Season with salt, to taste.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 16 Serving Size: 1 TbspAmount Per Serving: Calories: 71Total Fat: 7gSaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 6gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 100mgCarbohydrates: 3gFiber: 0gSugar: 2gProtein: 0g
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Marsha Franklin says
Let me say up front that I have never liked honey mustard dressing, but my husband loves it. I decided I wanted to fix grilled chicken sandwiches for dinner so I looked for a honey mustard recipe that was easy and required ingredients that I had on hand. By the way, I don’t care for Dijon mustard. I used yellow mustard, honey, I had bought at our local Amish store, and a mild olive oil from The Sacred Olive in Old Winter Garden Florida. I mixed, served, and stored the dressing in one jar that I had on hand for making pickled red onions, my son’s recipe. This honey mustard has won me over. I love it, not too tangy and not too sweet. Thank you for adding a new dressing to this old gal’s repertoire.
Megan says
Thanks Marsha! I'm so glad to hear that you're enjoying this dressing. I'm curious about pickled red onions now...I might have to try them!
Pamila Tyner says
How much does this recipe make by using the amounts that it requires? I guess you have to keep making this recipe until you make the amount for the container you are using. Let me know if you have a larger amount that fits a mason jar. Thank you.
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Megan says
Hi Pamila. Thanks for stopping by. This recipe makes one cup of salad dressing and fits in an 8oz mason jar. You can double the recipe if you want it to fit in a pint size jar. Hope that helps!