Mustard Sauce

This mustard sauce is creamy and perfect for dipping! It takes minutes to whip up with mustard, mayonnaise and honey.

Need a creamy condiment for sandwiches or dipping? Here’s just what you need: mustard sauce! This irresistibly zingy and balanced sauce stars two types of mustard, mayonnaise and honey. It comes together in just 1 minute, and the flavor is divine! Use it for dipping vegetables or wings, or slather it on sandwiches and burgers. It adds a bright pop of flavor to everything it touches and it’s beyond simple to stir together.

Ingredients in mustard sauce

This mustard sauce recipe is so simple and tasty, it’s become one of our “back pocket” recipes that we use in a pinch. It’s perfect for everything from grilled vegetables to fried fish to burgers, and we can’t get enough of it! Here are the ingredients you’ll need, which you might already have on hand in your refrigerator:

• Mayonnaise
• Dijon mustard
• Yellow mustard
• Honey (or sugar)

Simply mix them together in a bowl until combined: easy as that! Take a taste from the end of the spoon and it’s tangy, savory, a little spicy and sweet all at once.

Do you need two types of mustard?

For the best flavor, this mustard sauce relies on two types of mustard: Dijon mustard and yellow mustard. Dijon mustard is spicier, with a sharper flavor. Yellow mustard is a bit more mild, but it adds a nice roundness to the flavor and color to this sauce. If you only have one or the other, the sauce will still work! It will taste slightly different, but it works in a pinch.

Varying the sweetness and sweetner

We like honey in this sauce, which makes it almost like a honey mustard sauce recipe. In fact, you can increase the amount of honey as desired to make it sweeter and more honey-forward.

You also can change the sweetener according to your tastes and preferences! The sugar is helpful to make for a balanced flavor. However, you can use less if desired, or use sugar, maple syrup or agave syrup. If you omit the sugar, the sauce will taste very spicy and have a subtle bitter aftertaste.

Storage info

Homemade mustard sauce lasts at least 1 month in the refrigerator in a sealed container. You can likely store it for longer, but ours never lasts that long! (Mayonnaise is stable in the refrigerator for months and mustard lasts 1 year.)

Ways to serve mustard sauce

There are so many ways to serve mustard sauce once you’ve whipped up a batch! We originally made ours for these Shrimp Burgers. Here are a few ideas:

• Seafood burgers: Spread it onto Shrimp Burgers, Salmon Burgers, or Tuna Burgers
• Seafood cakes: Use as a dipping sauce for Salmon Cakes, Tuna Cakes or crab cakes
• Salmon: Drizzle onto Grilled Salmon, Broiled Salmon or Oven Baked Salmon
• Shrimp: Use as a dipping sauce for Sauteed Shrimp, Grilled Shrimp or Garlic Shrimp
• French fries: Try it as a dip for Baked French Fries
• Vegetables: Or, dip veggies like Crispy Breaded Cauliflower or Roasted Broccoli
• Sandwiches: Spread it on a Salmon Sandwich, Vegetarian Reuben or a vegan sandwich with Lion’s Mane Mushrooms.

More sauce recipes

This sauce recipe is a favorite in our arsenal. Here are a few more easy sauce recipes to try:

• Try Lemon Pepper Sauce, Lemon Butter Sauce or Lemon Caper Sauce
• Go for Garlic Butter Sauce or Lemon Garlic Butter Sauce
• Opt for creamy Tzatziki Sauce or Garlic Aioli
• Make bright green Chimichurri Sauce or creamy red Roasted Red Pepper Sauce
• Make Peanut Sauce or Ponzu Sauce
• Go for Homemade Tomato Sauce or Pizza Sauce

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Peanut Sauce Recipe

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Ponzu Sauce

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Homemade Tomato Sauce

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Roasted Red Pepper Sauce

This mustard sauce recipe is…

Vegetarian, vegan (with sugar), plant-based, dairy-free and gluten-free.

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