Sauces & dressings · Salad dressings
Honey mustard
The five-minute dip that ends bottled-sauce purchases: honey, two mustards, a spoon of mayo and a splash of vinegar. Chicken tenders' reason for living.
- Time
- 5 min (5 prep + 0 cook)
- Servings
- 8
- Per serving
- 85 kcal
- Protein
- 1 g
Both directions are legitimate — the score measures fullness per calorie, not virtue. Every version is the same dish, rebalanced.
Ingredients
- 3 1/2 tbsp honey70 g
- 1/4 cup Dijon mustard60 g
- 4 tsp yellow mustard20 g
- 1/4 cup mayonnaise60 g
- 2 tsp apple cider vinegar10 g
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Steps
- Whisk everything smooth. Done — that's genuinely the recipe.
- The two mustards matter: dijon for depth, yellow for the tang and the colour you recognize.
- Keeps two weeks in the fridge. Dip, dressing (thin with water), or glaze for baked chicken.
Why this score
engineered against fullnessConcentrated sugar, with little protein or fiber to slow it down; dense calories with little protein, volume or fiber to fill you up.
Three routes to fullness — one is enough
What pulls it down
Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 677 kcal goes into the pot, 220 g of ingredients comes out as ~220 g of food → 308 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.
Per
- Calories
- 308
- Protein
- (2%)
- 2 g
- Fat
- (62%)
- 22 g
- Carbohydrates
- (36%)
- 28 g
- of which sugar
- 27 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 575 mg
Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.
Computed from the ingredients' USDA data — nothing typed by hand. Every number is traceable, every score recomputable.
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Photo: AI-generated. Nutrition and score are computed from the ingredients with the published formula — this recipe hasn't been kitchen-tested by us yet.