Honey Dijon Vinaigrette. Pair this delicious homemade honey mustard dressing with your favorite salad! We love ours over baby spinach with dried cranberries, sliced almonds, and crumbled feta. Delicious!
When it comes to dressings, I like to be thoroughly assaulted by flavor. Not quite a sucker punch to the taste buds, but pretty darn close.
In order for me to deem a dressing appropriate, it needs to be a little bit sweet, a little bit salty, and enhance any and all veggies I pair it with without overpowering their natural deliciousness. It’s not asking too much.
My past arsenal includes a creamy curry dressing worthy of slathering on everything from salads to rice bowls, a greek vinaigrette that is utterly magical over bell peppers and chickpeas, and a refreshing yet fiery sriracha ranch that takes fish tacos to the next level and then some!
Flavorful dressings FTW!
This zesty vinaigrette rocks our socks!
Looking for a traditional mayo-based honey mustard dressing or dip? For ours we combine equal parts honey, yellow mustard, dijon mustard, and mayo for ours – then adjust the sweetness to taste!
I even make a chipotle honey mustard dip that’s awesome for spreading on veggie burgers and dipping fries in!
Honey Dijon Vinaigrette
This scrumptious honey dijon vinaigrette is fast and flavorful! It’s also super easy to customize so you can make it as mild or as bold as your heart desires. Anything goes when it comes to salad dressing!
Homemade Honey Dijon Vinaigrette
Pair this delicious Honey Dijon Vinaigrette with your favorite salad!
Recipe yields enough for 3-4 side salads or two large salads. Feel free to double or triple as needed!
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 3 TBSP honey
- 2 TBSP white wine vinegar
- 1 TBSP dijon mustard
- 1 TBSP minced vidalia onion
- 1/4 tsp sea salt
Instructions
- Whisk all of the above ingredients together until well combined.
- Dip a spinach leaf to taste, then adjust the vinegar-to-honey ratio to suit your palette. You can up the tartness or the sweetness! Simply listen to your taste buds; they're brilliant.
- Drizzle over #allthesalads
Recipe Notes
No white wine vinegar? This dressing can also be made with red wine vinegar or apple cider vinegar if you prefer! Start with 1 TBSP and add extra to taste.
Optional: This dressing can be made with a food processor or immersion blender too!
Nutrition facts below are an estimate provided by an online nutrition calculator.
If you get a chance to try this Homemade Honey Dijon Vinaigrette, let me know! You can leave me a comment here (LOVE checking those daily!) or tag @PEASandCRAYONS on Instagram so I can happy dance over your creations. I can’t wait to see what you whip up!
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Originally Published December 2012 – Updated Photos April 2018
Karly
I’ve loved honey mustard ever since I was a kid! I’ll need to make this!
Albert Bevia
Nothing better than homemade dressing, you always make everything look so easy, and that is amazing, can’t wait to try this dressing
Amanda
I love a flavor punch in my dressings too. This vinaigrette looks and sounds fantastic! A great way to brighten salads, and I bet it’s wonderful over a platter of grilled veggies, too!
April
Homemade vinaigrette is the BEST! Yum!
Amber @ Slim Pickins Kitchen
Yum! This looks amazing!
Lillian
This looks fantastic! I don’t usually like mustard too much, but I’d try this in a heartbeat (and probably pour buckets of it onto my salad – it looks *that* good). 🙂
Carli Alice
I love making honey dijon dressing. It’s so yummy. I’ll have to try the onion, haven’t done that yet.
Sharon
I love honey dijon vinaigrette but I normally buy it from the store rather than make it myself. Your recipe sounds absolutely delicious! I’ll definitely have to give it a try! 🙂 xx
Ali @ WHOLEistically Fit
Love the post, Jenn. 😀 I’m 100% with ya on the dressing requirements. This looks heavenly and I love the presentation of it in the pictures.
Kim Lee
I was actually thinking of making a big salad for Christmas with fruit and this dressing would go perfect with what I had in mind. I’m printing now!
Cotter Crunch
it’s curry in a hurry. YUM!
kepotts
Yes please on the dressing flavor assault, this coming from a person who enjoys sweating when they eat (bring on the spice!) This dressing looks amaze-a-balls!
Andrea @ Vegvacious
YUMMY!!! Honey dijon is my fave on everything from salads to roasted brussels sprouts to sandwiches!
Little Miss Cornucopia
I looooove a good tasty mustard dressing and this one sounds uh-may-zing!! I think I almost licked my screen – thanks for that! X
MIz
I read your posts and HONE IN ON YER PICS and wonder:
SERIOUSLY THATS HER FOOD?
my food tastes fab but my food be, um, ugly 🙂
Jamie@Thrifty Veggie Mama
Yummy! Definitely one of my favorite dressings but I haven’t tried to make it at home yet. I really love a good creamy tahini dressing too.
Frances Stiles
Honey dijon is Ralph’s favorite! I’ll be trying this version, soon…Thanks, Jenn!
Aparna B. @ Not A Leaf
This is my and REB’s go-to homemade dessert when we have side salads alongside dinner! I love this! It’s so light, tangy and so flavorful!
Aparna B. @ Not A Leaf
Ugh. Not dessert. DRESSING. DRESSING, APARNA, DRESSING. Gah. It’s early 😉
Amy B @ Second City Randomness
Lovely. During all this holiday craze, I’ve become really appreciative of the lighter meals like this. It’s refreshing.
Kristen @ notsodomesticated
I have no doubt that I would love this dressing. I’m the same as you … I need my salad dressing to pack a punch! 😉
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