Here’s the best 3 ingredient honey mustard homemade recipe. Use this darn good honey mustard as a dipping sauce or glaze. Also, it’s the best honey mustard for dipping chicken tenders. It uses a minimal 3 ingredients and is the leading 3 minute honey mustard. Although it’s primarily a dip, it’s also often used as a sauce or glaze. So, it’s part of our Dips & Spreads as well as our Sauces & Marinades Categories.
Overview of 3 Ingredient Honey Mustard
Delving into the heart of Southern cuisine, this original recipe from the 1970s revolutionizes the way we enjoy honey mustard. Crafted with raw honey, mayo, and the essential yellow mustard, it was originally intended to complement the crispy, golden delight of boneless Southern fried chicken. However simple, this blend proves that sometimes, the most straightforward recipes carry the warmth of generational wisdom, ensuring it wouldn’t be honey mustard without the perfect balance of these three ingredients.
Popular Questions on Homemade Honey Mustard 3 Ingredients
Is There Real Honey in 3 Ingredient Honey Mustard?
If you make it with this recipe, yes, it uses real honey. It’s the restaurant and fast food packaged honey mustard that typically doesn’t contain real honey. Keep reading to see more on this in the nutritional section of honey mustard.
Do You Use Yellow Mustard or Another Mustard?
While the classic recipe calls for yellow mustard, you can also use some spicy brown mustard for those who prefer its rustic flavor. Also, some use half yellow mustard and half spicy brown mustard.
What Can I Add to Spice Up This 3 Ingredient Honey Mustard?
If you want a bit more variety, you can add in 1/2 tsp of prepared horseradish (or 1 tsp horseradish sauce) and a pinch of cayenne red pepper.
How To Make Honey Mustard With No Mayo
You can leave out the mayo and replace it with plain yogurt. The preferred type to use is the whole fat or the Greek yogurt. However, it will be much thicker and creamier in taste and texture.
What Do You Use This 3 Ingredient Honey Mustard For?
Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce
It’s best to use this for dipping fried chicken nuggets, fried chicken strips, and chicken fries. However, it’s also for dipping appetizers like apple sections cheese cubes, summer sausage, little smokies, and countless others.
Honey Mustard Baking Glaze
Some have also spread it onto salmon filets or chicken before baking or just when finalizing grilling them. Others have used it for mixing into raw vegetables before roasting them.
Storage And Shelf Life of Homemade Honey Mustard Sauce
Fortunately, this typically has a long shelf life as a homemade 3 ingredient yellow mustard sauce. It can last nearly as long as mayo does. Store it in an air tight food container or closed mason jar.
I typically will replace it after about a month. For those who use a homemade mayo, however, I strongly urge you to consider the life of your homemade mayo which is often very short, like a few days.
Nutritional Values of Honey Mustard
This homemade honey mustard calories are about 66 calories. Also, there are about 7 grams carbs for a serving. Additionally, see more nutritional values in the <Print Recipe> option. Also, here’s more reading about honey and about mustard.
What’s in the fast food packets of honey mustard?
If you use those common fast food packets, probably it will have what they call “honey water” and high fructose corn syrup. So, it’s sometimes considered an artificial honey. The mustard might be real or uses a mustard base. Regardless, there are often a lot of artificial flavorings and preservatives. So, this is another reason you may want to continue to just whip up your own so you control the natural ingredients.
Conclusion of 3 Ingredient Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce
Now you’ve seen how to make a very easy homemade recipe for 3 ingredient honey mustard. It’s literally just a matter of mixing together those 3 key ingredients. And, you’ve learned how it’s used on some fairly popular items such as fried chicken strips, summer sausage, and other items. Tell me how yours went and if you made any changes. I’d like to hear also what you used yours for.
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Ingredients
- 4 Tbsp mayonaise
- 3 Tbsp yellow mustard
- 4 Tbsp honey
Instructions
- Whisk together mayo, mustard and honey.
- Ready to serve or store in fridge.