
Honey Mustard Dressing Recipe
You don’t want mayonnaise to make an exquisite Honey Mustard Dressing! Mine is made with simply mustard, honey, cider vinegar and oil. That’s all it is advisable make an exquisite creamy Honey Mustard Dressing that transforms even the plainest of salads into wow!
I exploit this Honey Mustard Dressing for salads nevertheless it’s positively thick sufficient to make use of as a dipping sauce too. Although fact be informed, my Honey Mustard Dipping sauce is made with mayonnaise and no vinegar. 🙂 However I do use this for dipping too!
My mates and I at all times say that an ideal salad comes right down to the dressing. It doesn’t matter how fancy pants the substances within the salad are. If the dressing is a fail, then the salad is a fail.
However THIS dressing is at all times a assured hit!!
PS The bottle within the photograph above could also be acquainted to Australians. It’s bought at Woolworths, branded by a sure well-known movie star chef who shall stay unnamed. Nevertheless, it’s very impractical for dressings. Firstly as a result of it’s important to maintain your finger on the highest of the pourer if you shake it. Secondly, the bottle must be greater than half full to ensure that the dressing to pour into the funnel. Humph. Not glad!
I do wish to experiment with dressings, however when it comes right down to it, I at all times fall again on my sure-fire winners. And Honey Mustard Dressing is unquestionably falls into that class. It actually does make the whole lot higher. Whether or not simply used to decorate plain leafy greens, or with a number of cherry tomatoes added, which is all I did (see photograph at high), or for a salad with extra substantial substances. Like my Roasted Candy Potato Salad. This dressing could be improbable with that!
Although made with honey, this isn’t a very candy dressing. I’m extra of a savoury than candy woman, so my savoury meals with sweetness in them at all times errs extra in the direction of savoury than candy. It feels like there may be loads of honey on this, however really, there’s loads of bitter too from the vinegar and mustard so it balances it out.
This Honey Mustard Dressing retains for weeks within the fridge so it’s a improbable one to make an enormous batch of to have one hand for fast salads, each facet salads and extra substantial meal salads!

Ingredients
- 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
- 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.
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.