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This honey mustard dressing recipe is deliciously creamy and so easy! Made in minutes, it’s ideal for drizzling salad and veggies.
Here’s one to add to the “better homemade” category – and it’s so easy, you won’t have any excuse not to try it! Once you start making your own dressing, you’ll never go back. It’s a breeze to make homemade vinaigrette with whatever you have handy.
This homemade honey mustard dressing is our simplest yet. And, all you have to dirty is 1 tablespoon, a bowl and a whisk. The flavor is so delicious: it’s perfectly tangy sweet, and you can make almost any combination of vegetables taste amazing with a little drizzle.
Love honey mustard? Try this Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce.
How to make honey mustard dressing
This honey mustard dressing is so simple, it takes just 5 minutes to whisk together! We first made the honey mustard vinaigrette as part of our healthy potato salad. It was so good we’ve made it on a regular basis ever since! To make the dressing, use a medium sized bowl, which allows the whisking motion to form a creamy emulsion. The formula for this honey mustard dressing we created especially to help you to memorize it! It’s got:
- 2 tablespoons each honey, white wine vinegar and mustard
- 4 tablespoons olive oil
This way, you can memorize it and whip it up on a moment’s notice! It’s one of our favorite homemade vinaigrettes because it’s so delicious: it’s the perfect balance of sweet and savory. We hope you’ll make it as often as we do!
Why make salad dressing at home?
Do you make your salad dressing at home? When Alex and I decided to start eating whole foods and make as much as we could from scratch, store-bought salad dressings were the first to go. Here’s why:
- It skips the additives and preservatives. Many of them have added preservatives, or large amounts of added salt and sugar. Making salad dressing at home lets you have full control over the ingredients going into your salad dressing.
- The flavor is incredible. Most of the time, like with our honey mustard vinaigrette, homemade salad dressing is much more delicious!
Ways to serve this honey mustard dressing
The best thing about this honey mustard dressing is that it’s so versatile! You can drizzle it on many different salads. Here are a few of our favorites to use it on (substitute it for the dressing listed in the recipe):
- Spinach Apple Salad This dressing pairs perfectly with tangy apple and crunchy walnuts.
- Arugula Beet Salad A green salad with earthy beets.
- Fennel Orange Salad Fennel and oranges pair well with this sweet tart dressing.
- Best Tossed Salad This tossed salad is a blank slate for the dressing!
- Asparagus Salad with Feta Sauteed asparagus and crunchy veggies are perfect dressed with honey mustard.
More favorite homemade salad dressings
And that’s it! Let us know in the comments below if you make this dressing. And if you’re inspired, continue to peruse our favorite homemade salad dressing recipes like:
- Balsamic Vinaigrette Classic and comes together in minutes.
- Caesar Dressing Creamy dressing that’s perfect on anything!
- Tahini Sauce or Lemon Tahini Dressing Brings a brightness to any salad.
- Italian Salad Dressing Perfect on Italian salad and chopped salad.
- French Dressing Tangy and classy.
- Vegan Ranch Dressing A plant-based way to do creamy ranch.
- Thousand Island Dressing Nostalgic and full of flavor.
This honey mustard dressing recipe is…
Vegetarian, vegan, gluten free, plant based, dairy free, refined sugar free, and naturally sweet.
Honey Mustard Dressing
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Total Time: 5 minutes
- Yield: ½ cup 1x
Description
This honey mustard dressing recipe is deliciously creamy and so easy! Made in minutes, it’s ideal for drizzling salad and veggies.
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons honey (local, if possible)
- 2 tablespoons white wine vinegar
- 2 tablespoons Dijon or stone ground mustard
- 4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
Instructions
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the honey, white wine vinegar, and mustard.
- Slowly whisk in the olive oil 1 tablespoon at a time until fully combined and an emulsion forms. The dressing can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks; make sure to bring to room temperature and shake well before serving.
- Category: Salad Dressing
- Method: Whisked
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 2 TBSP
Made this dressing last evening for a spinach salad and it was delicious. But in one section of this post lists 6 T of EVOO on the ingredient list and another section lists 4 T of EVOO. I used 6 T and it turned out great. Not sure which amount was correct. Thanks!!
Thank you for letting us know! The recipe card is correct (which is 4 T), but it tastes great with either one! Thanks for trying it and let us know if you try with 4 T too!
Hi, looks good. Can I substitute red wine vinegar or just white vinegar for the white wine vinegar?
You can do red wine vinegar but not white vinegar!
Okay, thanks for responding!
Paired nicely with a basic chopped salad comprised of all locally sourced ingredients (except the seeds): mixed lettuce, shredded carrot, diced cucumber, diced tomato, pickled onion and roasted sunflower seeds. Delicious!
So nice to have an easy recipe for salad dressing that’s not just my default drizzle of olive oil with a splash of balsamic vinegar
This recipe is awesome and SO easy, I have tried other honey mustard dressings that just didn’t have the right balance of flavors for me. I used apple cider vinegar and Dijon mustard. Thank you, it will now be a go to dressing for me. No more store bought!! :-)
I can never resist modifying a recipe. To the stated ingredients, I added the juice of half a lemon, fresh ground black pepper and one teaspoon of Herbs de Provence. Perfection!
Yum!
This an amazing simple dressing. I have made it three times since finding it a couple of weeks ago. The first time I made it as written and my family loved it. Local honey makes it extra healthy especially for persons with seasonal allergies. Since that first batch, I made a few changes according to what we like and what I have on hand. I added salt and pepper, just a pinch of each, and a splash of a good quality white balsamic vinegar. Yum! I think it is better after sitting for a day. Thank you for an easy recipe that helps me feel great about what I feed my family.