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Easy Creamy Honey Mustard Dressing (Soy Free)

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Our creamy homemade honey mustard dressing is great on salad and doubles as a dip for your favorite veggies or chicken strips. Unlike many packaged honey mustard dressings, our recipe is soy free and egg free (as well as dairy free)!

A hand dips a chicken strip into a bowl of homemade honey mustard dressing on a plate.

One of my goals this year is to add more fruits and veggies back into my diet, and admittedly it’s so much easier to do this when I have a delicious dressing to dip my carrots and cucumbers in, like this honey mustard dressing.

And let’s be honest, it’s my favorite way to eat chicken strips, too 🙂

Many commercial honey mustard dressings contain eggs and soy thanks to the mayo that is in the dressing to add creaminess. I love thick and creamy honey mustard, so I decided to make our own version that is soy free and egg free.

Why you’ll love this recipe

Our honey mustard dressing recipe is so creamy and thick, it’s great for salads but also doubles as a dip as well! I love baby carrots and sliced cucumbers dipped in this honey mustard, it’s borderline addicting (a great way to get more veggies in!).

A colorful salad with a small bowl if honey mustard tucked into the salad.

Since you’re making it at home, it’s easy to customize it for your individual food allergies and flavor preferences. If you want a sweeter dressing or a more tart dressing, it’s super easy to adjust this to your tastes!

How to make homemade creamy honey mustard dressing

To make this honey mustard dressing, you’ll add everything to a small bowl or jar and whisk it together, that simple!

You can adjust everything to taste in this recipe:

  • If you want a more tart and bolder dressing, reduce the honey and increase the mustard. Starting with 1 teaspoon less honey and 1 teaspoon more mustard is a good start and you can adjust from there. We made our first batch this way and it’s good, too!
  • Adding a little more apple cider vinegar is great for extra tartness without increasing the mustard if you don’t want to increase the bitterness (the mustard can lend some bitterness).
  • I love the addition of garlic powder and onion powder in this honey mustard dressing, but if you prefer to keep it simple, you can skip those and stick with the salt and black pepper.
  • This dressing will thicken up as it sits in the fridge, so if it’s too thick to drizzle on your salad, you can thin it out a bit with a splash of water (don’t add too much though!).
Three condiment bottles on a wooden surface showing the ingredients to make soy free honey mustard dressing.

If you’d like to reduce the fat and calories in this dressing, you can swap half the mayo with a dairy-free sour cream or a dairy free plain coconut yogurt.

Soy free mayo options for this dressing

For this recipe, we used the Best Foods/Hellmans plant-based mayo, which is soy free and egg free.

Best Foods and Hellmans are the same company, the name you’ll see on their products will depend on your region. So the Hellman’s plant based mayo and the Best Foods plant based mayo should have identical ingredients.

Finding a soy free and egg free mayo can be tough, so here are a few of our recommendations:

If you can have eggs, you can use a regular paleo mayo (such as Primal Kitchen, Chosen Foods, or Sir Kensington), or homemade mayo.

A copper spoon drizzles honey mustard dressing into a bowl next to salad.

Check out our other dairy free salad dressing recipes:

A hand dips a chicken strip into a bowl of honey mustard dressing on a plate, next to cucumber slices and more chicken strips.

Easy Creamy Honey Mustard Dressing (Soy Free)

Our creamy homemade honey mustard dressing is great on salad and doubles as a dip for your favorite veggies or chicken strips. Unlike many packaged honey mustard dressings, our recipe is soy free and egg free!
Makes 1 cup of dressing, 8 2-Tablespoon servings
Soy free, egg free, dairy free
5 from 1 vote
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Course: Condiments, Sauces, & Spreads
Cuisine: American
Keyword: creamy honey mustard, honey mustard dressing
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Total Time: 5 minutes
Servings: 8 servings
Calories: 154kcal

Ingredients

Instructions

  • In a medium sized bowl, whisk together all of the ingredients until smooth.
  • You may have to slightly warm up your honey for easier mixing. Make sure you only slightly warm it up, and don't mix it into the mayo hot. It doesn't take much to warm up honey, you can run your container under hot water until it softens or pop it in the microwave in a small dish for just 10 seconds (that's all it takes!).
  • This dressing is slightly more sweet and less tart, however if you want it less sweet and more tart, you can reduce the honey and add a bit more mustard or add a little more apple cider vinegar.
  • Store in a jar or container in the fridge for 1-2 weeks.
  • This dressing will thicken up in the fridge overnight, so if your dressing thickens up a lot and you want it thinner to drizzle over your salad, you can just add a little water to it (it won't take much water to do this, don't add too much).

Notes

For a dressing that is lower in calories, you can swap half the mayo with Violife sour cream or So Delicious plain coconut yogurt. 

Nutrition

Serving: 2Tablespoons | Calories: 154kcal | Carbohydrates: 6g | Protein: 0.2g | Fat: 14g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.03g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.1g | Sodium: 234mg | Potassium: 10mg | Fiber: 0.2g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 3IU | Vitamin C: 0.05mg | Calcium: 3mg | Iron: 0.1mg
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