Easy Homemade Honey Mustard Sauce Recipe For Dipping

This homemade honey mustard sauce recipe combines the bright intensity of mustard with a hint of sweetness from honey and spices. It's a tangy sauce perfect for dipping chicken tenders, serving with ham, or even a beautiful piece of grilled salmon. 

Great Flavors In This sauce

The tangy and sweet combination of mustard with honey is a great way to brighten up just about anything. From fried chicken strips to grilled pork chops, and even roasted vegetables this sauce delivers. It's an easy recipe to make that doesn't require any cooking at all. Just mix it up in a small bowl and you are good to go. 

Basic Mustard Dipping Sauce Ingredients

The basic version of this sauce is great because we all have these simple ingredients on hand all of the time. They are pantry staples. 

• ¼ cup dijon mustard
• ¼ cup mayonaise
• 2 tablespoon honey
• ¼ teaspoon smoked paprika
• ½ teaspoon lemon juice

This kid friendly version is best used with crispy chicken nuggets and French fries for an easy weeknight meal.

Hot Honey Mustard Sauce

Since hot honey is all the rage these days, why not mix up a spicy version for our sweet potato fries, roasted vegetables, and fried chicken.

• ¼ cup dijon mustard
• ¼ cup mayonaise
• 2 tablespoon hot honey
• ¼ teaspoon smoked paprika
• ½ teaspoon garlic powder
• ½ teaspoon onion powder

Measure and combine all of the ingredients in a small bowl and stir. If you want even more heat, add extra hot honey or a pinch of cayenne pepper.

Fancier Honey Mustard Sauce

This mustard sauce recipe is for your more upscale dinner recipes. When you are making things like pork tenderloin or green vegetables, this sauce brings more depth of flavor and extra texture from the mustard seeds.

• ¼ cup dijon mustard
• ¼ cup whole grain mustard
• ¼ cup mayonaise
• 2 tablespoon honey
• ¼ teaspoon smoked paprika
• ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
• ½ teaspoon lemon juice

One of my favorite ways to serve this sauce is with a smoked spiral ham or turkey breast. The extra texture from the yellow mustard seeds in the whole grain mustard elevates the look, feel, and flavor of the sauce.

Recipe Modifications

I want you to make this sauce exactly the way you want it. You can modify the sweetness from the honey, the tangy taste of the mustard, or add fresh herbs.

Choose different types of mustard- there are so many kinds of mustard. Yellow mustard, spicy brown, I could go on. Try your favorite and see what happens.

Make it more less sweet- you can add more or less honey to get it to the right sweetness for your crowd

Add Fresh Herbs- chopped parsley and tarragon naturally pair well with mustard

How to Store HMS

Any airtight container will preserve leftover honey mustard sauce. I love these little glass jars with the screw on lids for a tight seal. Mason jars or any other snap ware container will also work.

Chicken Dinner Ideas 

This is the perfect sauce to liven up some of my favorite main dishes. Anything meat that is cooked low and slow can use the tangy punch from a bright sauce.

• Fried chicken, mashed potatoes, roasted brussels sprouts or asparagus
• Whole smoked chicken with roasted potatoes and vegetables
• Grilled chicken sandwiches with sweet potato fries and a green salad

Pork and Ham Options

For a classic spiral ham meal, I like to serve:

• Traeger Smoked Spiral Ham
• Au gratin potatoes dauphinoise 
• French Green Beans 

​Two more meals for you:

• Grilled Honey Mustard Pork Tenderloin with Mac and cheese and broccoli 
• Pan fried pork chops with an easy rice pilaf and whatever green vegetable you feel like eating. Or maybe roasted carrots. 

More Simple Homemade Sauces

I love a good easy sauce recipe! Check these out

Hibachi Mustard Dipping Sauce for steak and chicken breasts

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