My Spicy Honey Mustard Sauce is the perfect sauce for all your favorite foods. It’s a fantastic dip or glaze because it’s full of flavor and packs a spicy kick.
My family loves dipping sauces. I am always try to up my flavor game. Try my bourbon sauce recipe or my boom boom sauce for a kick to your dishes.
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Why this Spicy Honey Mustard Sauce Recipe is a Keeper
Spicy honey mustard is also known as sassy mustard. It’s the perfect combination of sweet honey, mustard and hot sauce into the perfect dipping sauce.
- Only Minutes: Tangy honey mustard is made in less than five minutes with simple pantry staples.
- Simple Ingredients: You will need a handful of simple ingredients for this sweet spicy vibe. It is so easy.
- Family Friendly: Spicy honey mustard dressing brings so much flavor to all your favorite things you enjoy mustard on. You’ll love it!
- Adaptable: You can make this honey mustard sauce to meet your taste. It can be sweeter, spicier or milder.
What Kind of Honey is Best for this Spicy Honey Mustard Dressing?
If you want a sweeter sauce, add more honey to sweeten this recipe for honey mustard sauce! Any kind of honey will work, but you can try different flavors of honey to change up this tangy flavor versatile sauce.
Ingredient Notes to Make this Recipe for Spicy Honey Mustard
All of the required ingredients are easy to find at the store, but you may even have some of them in your kitchen already.
- Honey Mustard Salad Dressing: Make your own homemade honey mustard sauce or buy your favorite from the grocery store.
- Buffalo Chicken Sauce: Try making Best Chicken Wing Sauce to use, or use your favorite hot sauce bottled version.
- Barbecue Sauce: Use either or a spicy or sweet sauce.
See the recipe card below for a complete list of the ingredients with measurements.
Prep Ahead Suggestions for Homemade Spicy Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce
Preparing a recipe ahead of time can be the best way to go! Make this recipe in advance to be able to enjoy it whenever you’d like.
- Make Ahead: The flavors often meld and improve if you make it a day or two in advance.
Pro Tip for Tangy Hot Honey Mustard
Herbs: Fresh rosemary, thyme, or a bay leaf.
How to Make Spicy Honey Mustard
This recipe comes together in 1 quick and easy step. This mustard flavor sauce is so good, it will quickly become one of your favorite condiments!
These are the basic steps for making Spicy Honey Mustard Sauce. Refer to the full, printable recipe card below for detailed instructions.
1. Combine Ingredients
Add honey mustard salad dressing, wing sauce and barbecue sauce in a small bowl and stir to combine.
How to Store, Reheat and Use Leftover of this Homemade Dressing Condiment
- Storing: Store spicy honey mustard in the fridge in an airtight container or jar.
- Reheating: You can warm this honey mustard pretzel dip on the stove top or in the microwave to serve on top of your favorite foods.
- Using Leftovers: Enjoy sweet and spicy leftovers with fried chicken wings, on a grilled chicken salad or with Air Fryer Chicken Strips.
Variations and Substitutions for this Sweet and Tangy Honey Mustard Dressing
Homemade dressings are the best because they’re so easy to customize! Try taking it to the next level by experimenting with flavors and trying different ingredients.
- Different Mustard: Dijon mustard, French mustard or English mustard are all great options. Spicy mustard has brown mustard seed and yellow mustard may not be best for this recipe.
- Tang: Add a little tang with some vinegar. Use your favorite, like white wine vinegar, rice wine vinegar or apple cider vinegar. You can also try lemon juice.
- Hot Honey: Use hot honey in place of sweet honey to make the recipe a little spicier.
Spicy Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce Recipe FAQs
Some ways to serve include with Doritos Chicken Tenders, Baked Sweet Potato Fries or Soft Pretzels and honey mustard.
If stored properly, you can make this spicy honey mustard last for up to 3 weeks.
Try adding red pepper flakes, cayenne pepper and hot sauce to make it spicier.
Try this sweet and tangy sauce on veggies, onion rings or even as a marinade for grilled chicken bites to make them delicious honey mustard chicken fingers.
Expert Tips to Love this Spicy Honey Mustard Recipe
- Balance: The goal is to balance the sweet, tangy, and spicy elements. Don’t be afraid to adjust the ingredients to your liking.
- Taste: Start with a small amount of hot sauce and add more to taste. It’s easier to add heat than to take it away!
- Emulsify: Whisk the ingredients vigorously to create a smooth and emulsified sauce. This will prevent the oil from separating.
- Quality Ingredients: The better the mustard and honey, the better the final product will be.
- Infuse the Heat: For a smoother heat, consider infusing honey. Gently heat the honey with chili flakes or a halved jalapeño for about 30 minutes, then strain. If you don’t have honey, you can try infusing maple syrup.
- Spicy and Creamy: If you’d like a creamier sauce, try adding a little mayo at a time to get the perfect consistency.
- Consistency: To thin the sauce, add a little water to the spicy and savory sauce.
Spicy Honey Mustard Sauce
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Ingredients
- 1 cup Honey mustard salad dressing
- ¼ cup Buffalo chicken wing sauce, I use my own but your favorite bottled sauce would work too
- 1 tablespoon Barbecue sauce
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients in a bowl and stir to combine.
- Serve with your favorite dippers.
Christina’s Notes
- Balance: The goal is to balance the sweet, tangy, and spicy elements. Don’t be afraid to adjust the ingredients to your liking.
- Taste: Start with a small amount of hot sauce and add more to taste. It’s easier to add heat than to take it away!
- Emulsify: Whisk the ingredients vigorously to create a smooth and emulsified sauce. This will prevent the oil from separating.
- Quality Ingredients: The better the mustard and honey, the better the final product will be.
- Infuse the Heat: For a smoother heat, consider infusing honey. Gently heat the honey with chili flakes or a halved jalapeño for about 30 minutes, then strain. If you don’t have honey, you can try infusing maple syrup.
- Spicy and Creamy: If you’d like a creamier sauce, try adding a little mayo at a time to get the perfect consistency.
- Consistency: To thin the sauce, add a little water to the spicy and savory sauce.
- Scale the recipe: Simply adjust the serving size in the recipe card and the ingredients will update automatically.
- Make your own All Purpose Seasoning: When a recipe calls for All Purpose Seasoning, you can use my homemade All Purpose Seasoning recipe or substitute salt and pepper to taste.
- Meat doneness: I always use a meat thermometer to test for doneness when cooking meat.
- Use unsalted butter: I use unsalted butter so I can control the salt level in the recipe.
- Preheat the oven: Unless otherwise noted, always preheat your oven before baking.
For more helpful information about this recipe, such as variations, substitutions and other pro-tips, check out the blog post.
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Too many words on the honey mustard buffalo wings recipe. Cut to the chase. And in the end it’s a nonrecipe.
Awesome post! Saw you on Facebook – I am a sucker for anything buffalo and/or honey mustard, plus sauces, so this made me drool. I stumbled your main page – come check out my blog if you get a chance 🙂 Great site here!
Thanks for the kind words! I”ll be sure to stop by!
Your dip would be so good on so many different game day foods! Yum! #client
It makes a great dip and sandwich spread too! 🙂
Those shrimp tacos look amazing too! Glad I popped over from FB. Pinned for later.