Skip the store and make this perfect honey mustard sauce at home!

Honey mustard sauce is a delicious blend of sweet and tangy flavors that will make almost anything taste extra delicious.

Whether you’re dipping chicken tenders, drizzling it on salads, or using it as a marinade for meat or chicken, this perfect honey mustard sauce will add pizzazz to your meal.

Made from simple ingredients like honey, mustard, oil, and lemon juice, this sauce is easy to make.

Read on to see how to make a perfect honey mustard sauce that your family and friends will love.

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Why you’ll love this honey mustard sauce

Having a go to recipe for honey mustard sauce will make it easy to whip up a perfect batch anytime you want, making it easy to always have on hand.

Here’s why this recipe will become your go to recipe:

Sweet and tangy: With equal parts honey and mustard, this sauce is the perfect balance of sweet and tangy.

Perfect consistency: This recipe creates a sauce that has a perfect consistency you’ll love.

Everyday ingredients: This recipe is made with everyday ingredients that you most likely already have on hand.

Free of preservatives and additives: Unlike store bought honey mustard sauce, this homemade version is made with only 7 simple ingredients and has no added preservatives, colors, or additives.

Ingredients

You’ll only need 7 simple ingredients to make this perfect honey mustard dressing.

Honey – The honey gives the sauce sweetness as well as gives it a perfect creamy texture.
Mustard – This is the backbone to the flavor of this sauce. Use a good Dijon mustard or a classic yellow mustard, either will work. I used Dijon.
Avocado oil – Gives the sauce a great smooth texture. Avocado oil is great because of it’s nice neutral flavor that lets the honey and mustard flavors shine. It also works well because it doesn’t solidify as easily in the fridge as olive oil does, but you can use olive oil if you prefer.
Lemon juice – Gives the honey mustard sauce a nice pop of freshness and brightens it up nicely.
Salt – A little salt helps round out the flavors.
Pepper – Use fresh cracked pepper for the best flavor.
Onion powder – Onion powder gives the sauce a deeper flavor.

How to make honey mustard dressing

Honey mustard sauce is a classic condiment that goes with so many things. You can make this honey mustard sauce easily in a lidded jar or in a bowl with a whisk. You do you. All it takes is 5 minutes and you’ll have a sweet and tangy sauce you will love.

Put it all in a jar. In a jar with a lid, add the honey, mustard, avocado or olive oil, lemon juice, salt, pepper, and onion powder. If you don’t have a lidded jar, add everything to a medium sized bowl instead.
Shake it up. Tightly put the lid on the jar and shake it up until everything is well combined and emulsified. If you’re making this in a bowl, vigorously whisk everything together until the sauce is fully combined.
Enjoy! Pour your perfect honey mustard sauce over salads, grain bowls, protein, etc. It’s really good for a lot of things!

Tips

Need a few tips to make sure preparing this sauce is a breeze? Read on to get the scoop.

Oil the measuring cup. To help the honey easily come out of your measuring cups, lightly grease the cups before pouring the honey into them.
Skip the measuring cups and use a scale instead. The easiest and most accurate way to measure ingredients for a recipe is by weighing them instead of measuring their volume. This is especially true for honey. Skip the measuring cups altogether and weigh out the honey straight into your mixing bowl placed on a scale.
Make it in a jar to make preparation a breeze. Shaking it all up in a jar is by far the easiest way to make this sauce. Make sure the jar you choose holds a volume of at least a cup because this recipe makes a cup of sauce.
If you don’t have a jar, a bowl and whisk works. Although a jar is the easiest way to make it, a medium sized bowl and a whisk will do the trick.

Serving ideas

This perfect honey mustard sauce is so delicious and versatile. Here are some tasty ways to enjoy it:

Drizzle over grain bowls
Dunk in some French fries
Toss a delicious salad in it
Dress up roasted or sautéed vegetables
Marinate your favorite protein (pork chops and chicken pair well with it)

Storing and making ahead

Store the sauce in a jar with a tight fitting lid in the refrigerator. The sauce will keep for up to a week in the fridge.