Easy Honey Dijon Vinaigrette Salad Dressing

This Honey Dijon Vinaigrette is bold, sweet, tangy, flavorful, and perfect for drizzling on hearty salads, roasted fall vegetables, or grain bowls. It’s the kind of salad dressing that takes a salad from sad and boring to deliciously craveable. Five minutes and a handful of simple ingredients is all you need to make this flavor-packed homemade vinaigrette. 

This honey dijon vinaigrette is the perfect way to add a serious boost of flavor to your salads. But don’t stop there. Its bold sweet-tangy flavor pairs also well with hearty grain salads, roasted vegetables, and slow-roasted chicken. 

How To Make Honey Dijon Vinaigrette

Making this homemade honey dijon vinaigrette salad dressing is so easy, you’ll never bother with the store-bought stuff again. 

The Ingredients

The dijon mustard and honey are the stars of this show. The sweetness of the honey balances out the zesty kick of the mustard, creating a flavor combination that’s hard to beat. 

Olive oil and red wine vinegar create the base for this salad dressing, complementing the zing of the dijon and balancing the sweetness of the honey. The olive oil brings a nice, rich flavor that helps to blend everything together and take just a bit of the edge off of the mustard and vinegar. 

Other oils and vinegars can be subbed in if you like (avocado oil or vegetable oil; white wine vinegar or apple cider vinegar) but this combo is my favorite. 

Salt, pepper, onioin powder, and garlic powder round out the flavors and add the bit of depth and interest this recipe needs to be truly craveable. 

The Method

My favorite method for making vinaigrette is also the easiest. Simply toss all the ingredients into a glass jar, secure the lid tightly, and then give it a vigorous shake to mix everything up. It takes less than 5 minutes to make and saves me from dirtying up extra dishes, which I try to avoid at all costs. 

Storing The Vinaigrette

Mixing the vinaigrette in a glass jar also makes it easy to store. Just be sure to either use a plastic lid or place a piece of parchment or wax paper between a metal lid and the jar to keep the vinegar from corroding the metal. 

Because this recipe uses all shelf-stable ingredients, you can easily store this vinaigrette in the fridge for up to 10 days (and probably longer). The oil and vinegar will naturally separate after a day or two in the fridge since there are no added emulsifiers like the ones found in store-bought dressings. When this happens, simply let the dressing sit at room temperature for about 20 minutes to let the oil warm up and re-liquify. Then you can give the jar a quick shake and you’re good to go! 

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Honey Dijon Vinaigrette

This Honey Dijon Vinaigrette is bold, sweet, tangy, flavorful, and perfect for drizzling on hearty salads, roasted fall vegetables, or grain bowls.

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Course Salad Dressing

Servings 6

Ingredients

  

• ½ cup olive oil
• 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
• 2 tablespoons dijon mustard
• 1 tablespoon honey
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ¼ teaspoon black pepper
• ¼ teaspoon onion powder
• ⅛ teaspoon garlic powder

Instructions

 

• Combine all ingredients in a small jar. Secure lid and shake vigorously to combine. Enjoy!
• When storing, be sure to use a plastic lid or place a piece of wax or parchment paper between the metal lid and the jar to stop the vinegar from corroding the metal lid.
• Vinaigrette will store in the fridge for up to two weeks. The vinegar and oil will separate after a few days, so allow the vinaigrette to sit out at room temperature for a bit until you can shake it again to reincorporate everything.