Mustard-honey salad dressing goes well with meat, seafood and fish. The main thing is to cook it correctly. In the article, we will consider how to make mustard-honey sauce classic, and several of its variations. As well as salad recipes that will become tastier with such an unusual and tasty dressing.
Mustard-honey salad dressing perfectly combines a variety of flavors. The highlight is that it is both sweet, moderately sharp and slightly sour.
Mustard-honey sauce in recipes for salads prepared on the basis of meat, reveals all the taste delicacies of the dish.
Despite all its originality, refueling is quite simple.
Recipe for classic mustard-honey sauce with photo
To prepare it, you need a small amount of ingredients and a minimum of time.
The calculation of the ingredients is based on two servings.
We will need:
- 3 tablespoons of honey (it is best to use linden honey, in the absence of any suitable);
- 1 tbsp. l lemon juice;
- the same amount of vegetable oil (preferably olive oil);
- a couple of teaspoons of mustard;
- nutmeg and spices are optional.
Sauce making
Many tips recommend that if you use candied honey, melt it. But this is not worth it, since under the influence of mustard any even the most candied honey will become liquid.
First of all, you need to mix honey and mustard. We spread honey in a saucer, add mustard and leave for several minutes so that the mustard can melt it. Only then mix them. You can use hot mustard, or you can take tender. It all depends on the taste preferences of each hostess. It will be original if you use mustard with grains.
After both ingredients are mixed, add lemon juice to them and mix again. Doing it better with a whisk.
In the next step, add olive oil. If this is not the case, you can add refined vegetable.
Garlic can be added as desired.
After we mix all the ingredients, the dressing can be sent for storage to any cool place. It is best to store the sauce in a glass container. The dishes in which it will be located must be hermetically sealed. It is important to remember that mustard-honey salad dressing is a perishable product, so you can save it for no more than seven days.
Soya Honey Mustard Sauce
Cooking based on four servings. In time it will take no more than ten minutes.
So, we take:
- a few tablespoons of honey (it is best to use linden honey, in the absence of any suitable);
- a couple of spoons of soy sauce;
- the same number of spoons of vegetable oil (it is advisable to use olive);
- one, not full, spoonful of vinegar;
- a teaspoon of mustard;
- a quarter of a teaspoon of ground pepper.
Cooking process
First of all, use a fork to grind honey with mustard. After that, add olive oil and black pepper to them. After these four components are well ground, add soy sauce to them and stir until the mixture acquires a uniform color. Everything - the sauce is ready. But, before serving it to the table or adding it to the salad, it must be sent to the refrigerator for 15 minutes.
Sour cream honey mustard sauce
Cooking based on four servings.
Ingredients:
- a couple of spoons of fat sour cream;
- a couple of spoons of homemade mayonnaise;
- the same amount of Dijon mustard with grains;
- a spoonful of linden honey;
- a small clove of garlic;
- a couple of teaspoons of lemon juice;
- a spoon of olive oil (can be replaced with refined vegetable);
- ground white pepper - a quarter of a teaspoon.
Cooking dressing
As in previous recipes, the first step is to mix honey with mustard. After the mixture gains a homogeneous mass, you can add lemon juice to it. Mix everything again. Squeeze the garlic with a garlic squeezer or rub on a fine grater.
Mix it with sour cream and mayonnaise. Add pepper. We introduce sour cream-mayonnaise mass into honey-mustard. Whip everything with a whisk, transfer to a glass container and send it to a cool place for storage.
Store the finished sauce for no more than two days.
Below is a photo of a mustard sauce based on sour cream.
Classic mustard and honey mustard salad
It can be cooked like every day, also perfect for a festive table.
Ingredients:
- three hundred grams of beef;
- a couple of small pears (preferably solid);
- fresh basil leaves;
- lettuce;
- cooking oil for frying;
- a couple of spoons of sugar for caramelization of pears;
- mustard-honey sauce for the Classic salad - 2 tablespoons.
How to cook
Salad with beef in honey mustard sauce will surprise you with ease of preparation and unrivaled taste.
To begin with, we start preparing the ingredients.
We wash the lettuce leaves and leave to drain on a dry towel. After they dry, cut with a knife into small strips or you can tear with your hands.
Clean beef from films and excess fat, rinse well under running water.
Wash the pear, peel and peel. Cut the fruit into thin slices. Caramelize the pear with sugar.
At the first stage of cooking, we cut the beef into thin slices, fry in a pan with the addition of vegetable oil until golden brown.
Mix all the ingredients and season with the sauce.
Before serving, add sesame seeds and basil leaves to the salad. Mix all ingredients again.
Shrimp salad with honey mustard sauce
The preparation of this salad requires no more than half an hour.
Ingredients:
- one fresh cucumber;
- lettuce;
- Spinach to taste
- one fresh tomato;
- up to one hundred grams of shrimp;
- one lemon;
- a couple of tablespoons of honey mustard sauce with soy.
Sequencing
At the first stage, wash the salad and spinach, dry it on a paper towel. Poke on large strips with your hands.
Wash the cucumber. Peel if necessary. Finely chop into cubes.
Cut the tomato into thin slices.
Defrost the shrimp and clear the shell. Do not forget to pull out the gut.
If you have chosen a small shrimp, then you can use the whole one without cutting it. In the case of large shrimp, it is necessary to cut into a couple of parts.
At the next stage, fry the shrimp in a pan with the addition of oil for no more than three minutes. The main thing is not longer, otherwise it will become stiff and lose its taste.
You can immediately fry several slices of lemon for decoration.
Mix all the ingredients and add the sauce to them.
Before serving the salad on the table, it must be sprinkled with lemon juice and garnished with pre-fried slices.
Chicken Salad with Honey Mustard Sauce
To make a salad, we need:
- some cherry tomatoes;
- a spoon of balsamic vinegar;
- linden honey;
- chicken fillet;
- olive oil (can be replaced with another refined oil);
- lettuce;
- mustard with grains;
- salt to taste;
- ground white pepper.
Cooking
We wash the chicken breasts, clean it of excess films and dry it with a paper towel. Next, pickle them. For the marinade, we need salt, pepper, a little lemon juice and olive oil. Pour the breasts and marinate in a cool place for 45 minutes.
In a separate container, mix honey with mustard. And with this mixture, grease the chicken before sending it to the oven.
After the chicken is marinated, send it to the preheated oven for half an hour. It is possible and less. It all depends on the size of the breast. The main thing is to ensure that the meat does not dry out.
After the meat has cooled, it must be cut into thin slices.
We wash the leaves of lettuce, dry it and tear it apart with our hands.
Wash the tomatoes and cut them into halves. In this case, there is no need to blanch them. But if the skin is tough, you can carefully remove it.
All the ingredients are mixed and seasoned separately with whipped oil with balsamic vinegar and salt. Before serving, you can add white pepper to the salad .
Tuna salad
There are many salads with tuna. It goes well with many ingredients. Tuna is a unique fish, which in its taste is very similar to beef. But, since this ocean fish is not found in our latitudes, it is not possible to buy it fresh. Even if you find a quality product, be prepared for the fact that you have to pay a considerable sum of money for it.
It is customary to cook canned tuna salads. But for our recipe you need to try to find fresh. This dish can be attributed to a delicious one, which not every hostess will allow herself every day, but it can become a real decoration of the festive table.
Ingredients for making tuna salad in honey mustard sauce:
- two hundred grams of tuna;
- a few pieces of quail eggs;
- classic mustard sauce;
- green beans;
- some cherry tomatoes;
- lettuce;
- salt;
- ground pepper (preferably white).
How to cook
First you need to clean and boil the beans. Boil it for no more than 10 minutes. Then remove from water and allow to cool. Cut the beans into two halves.
Boil quail eggs and also cut in half. So do the cherry tomatoes. We wash them, dry and cut in half.
Rub the tuna fillet with pepper, salt and olive oil. We send to grill. For lack of it we fry in a pan on both sides until a crust forms, but so that the tuna fillet inside remains a little damp. After we get the fish, coat it with honey mustard sauce and cut into small cubes.
Rinse, dry and lettuce leaves into small pieces with your hands.
Mix all the finished ingredients. Before serving lettuce, we season it with the remaining honey-mustard sauce.