3-Ingredient Honey Mustard Dressing

Spice up your salad life with this easy and healthy 3-ingredient honey mustard dressing! It’s completely free of gluten and sugar, making it a wonderful alternative to those over-stuffed store-bought versions.

Honey Mustard Dressing.

Even though salads are usually considered more of a summery food, I’m up for a well-dressed bowl of greens any time of year. I’ve never been one to really enjoy them plain. I really love my dressings! Caesar, balsamic vinaigrette, oil & vinegar, buttermilk…. And since adding dressings back in after going on the GAPS Diet, my latest favorite has been this easy, 3-ingredients honey mustard dressing.

Thankfully, though store-bought versions of full of unnecessary ingredients, honey mustard dressing is super-d-duper (as my kids say) easy to make at home! I first wrote up my recipe over at Intoxicated on Life, but lately I’ve been making it a little differently so I thought I’d share it here, too.

Honey. With all the honey in this dressing, it’s practically a medicinal food. Kidding. Sort of! Honey is packed with vitamins and minerals (niacin, thiamine, pantothenic acid, riboflavin, vitamin C & B6, calcium, and iron, and more), and is anti-fungal, and probiotic due to its healthy bacteria. Since this honey mustard dressing is raw, I like to make sure that the honey I use is the best quality. But you can totally use whatever kind of honey you like. I usually use Azure Standard’s raw wildflower honey, but there are other good kinds out there, too.

Brown mustard. My family likes spicy brown mustard, and spicy brown mustard is what I use in this recipe. I haven’t ever tried making honey mustard with any other kind of mustard, but if you’re not a spicy mustard fan, go ahead and try a different kind.

Sour cream. This ingredient is the main difference between my old recipe. Back when I created it, I was not eating dairy. So I used my homemade mayonnaise for the creaminess. Since I can now have dairy, and I don’t keep homemade mayonnaise on hand all the time, I chose to use sour cream instead. I always have sour cream on hand! If you need to be dairy-free, feel free to use mayonnaise instead. Just keep in mind that mayo has eggs in it, so if you use that this recipe won’t be egg-free.

More Salad Love.

If you need more salad inspiration, I’ve got a few more favorites for you. Easy and full of nutrition, my simple green salad with leftover turkey and homemade ranch dressing is a refreshing lunch or simple dinner. Or, if you’re wishing you could eat out, but you can’t (’cause food sensitivities) my paleo copy-cat Chick-fil-A market salad is a wonderful at-home option for salad lovers. You can give any ol’ plain salad a dose of healthy fats with in my delicious GAPS-friendly creamy “buttermilk” avocado dressing. My probiotic blender ranch dressing is another favorite!

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