Upgrade your meals with this flavorful Outback Steakhouse copycat Honey Mustard recipe. The dressing combines bold mustard, delightful honey, and creamy mayonnaise to create a versatile condiment that complements a variety of dishes, not just salads.
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Outback honey mustard sauce
Despite its name and accent, Outback Steakhouse is an American invention. As an Australian-themed, American-style chain of casual dining restaurants, Outback Steakhouse operates over 1000 locations throughout the world. Four friends founded the first restaurant in 1988 in Tampa, Florida, where it is still headquartered today.
If you’re anything like me, you can never get enough of Outback Steakhouse Honey Mustard Sauce. The good news is that the recipe isn’t a secret anymore. Now, you can make it at home with this copycat recipe.
What makes the Outback Steakhouse honey mustard so good?
The use of high-quality ingredients is what makes this honey mustard dressing so flavorsome. The Grey Poupon Dijon Mustard is a white wine-infused mustard with an ultra-creamy texture and just the right amount of vibrant spice.
When you combine it with good-quality mayo and honey, all of the components play off each other to create a luxurious dressing.
Why you’ll love this recipe
It doesn’t get any easier than this! You don’t need a blender or any special equipment to make this dressing. Just make sure that you thoroughly combine the ingredients and give a while for the flavors to meld before you enjoy it.
Also, this dressing isn’t limited to just salads! You can use it as a dipping sauce for chicken, smother it on a sandwich, or use it as a meat marinade for chicken or pork before they hit the grill. Since it is so versatile, you won’t have trouble putting it to use.
Ingredients
Outback Steakhouse Honey Mustard Sauce uses only three ingredients, but you cannot use substitutions if you want to achieve the authentic taste and texture.
- Grey Poupon Dijon Mustard
- Mayonnaise – I recommend Hellman’s or Best Mayonnaise brand
- Honey
Whipping together these three basic ingredients will give you a great tasting salad dressing, dipping sauce, and barbecue sauce.
Ingredient notes
The original Grey Poupon mustard, named after the two men who combined their mustard-making businesses to form one company in 1866, did indeed start as French mustard. Today though, the mustard is owned and manufactured by an American company and made with Canadian-grown mustard seeds.
Although Miracle Whip is a fine substitute for mayonnaise in almost any recipe, it won’t work here. Miracle Whip is a combination of mayonnaise and other ingredients. Because it doesn’t have enough egg in it as real mayonnaise does, it will separate when you add the honey, which is quite dense.
But don’t let that shy you away from making my version of Outback Steakhouse Honey Mustard Sauce. This delicious sauce is easy to make and you probably have everything you need in your cupboard already.
How to Make Outback Honey Mustard at Home
It’s so simple to make copycat Outback honey mustard dressing! Here’s how:
- Place all of the ingredients in a small bowl.
- Stir or whisk until thoroughly combined.
- Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours before serving.
How to store the salad dressing
In order to stay fresh, this dressing needs to be in a container with a lid or a squeeze bottle with a tight-fitting cap. You can’t just loosely wrap it with plastic wrap. However, when stored correctly, this yummy dressing lasts 7 days.
Other ways to use honey mustard
There are plenty of uses for this honey mustard salad dressing! Here are some ideas:
- Use it as a sandwich spread. This dressing tastes phenomenal on a chicken sandwich or even a turkey burger.
- Use it as a dip. You can dunk onion rings, Outback Steakhouse Aussie Fries, or chicken tenders into this delicious dressing!
- Make wraps more exciting. Making some wraps for lunch? Luckily, this honey mustard tastes great with ham, turkey, and other deli meats you can load into a wrap.
- Add it to other types of salads. Jazz up your egg salad or potato salad by adding some of this instead of plain mustard! Even pasta salad can benefit from its tangy yet sweet flavor.
Love the dressing on their steak salad? Get the Outback Blue Cheese Vinaigrette recipe.
Love Mustard? Check out these recipes
- Sweet Mustard
- How to Make Honey Mustard in a Mason Jar
- Japanese Mustard Dressing
- Chick Fil A Honey Mustard Sauce
- Homemade Spicy Mustard
- Oriental Mustard
- Mustard Sauce for Meat
- Mustard Vinaigrette
- Mustard Barbecue Sauce
- Houston’s Honey Mustard
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Copycat Outback Steakhouse Honey Mustard Dressing
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups mayonnaise
- 1/4 cup Grey Poupon Dijon mustard
- 1/2 cup honey
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients in a bowl and mix well.
- Refrigerate overnight or for at least 2 hours before serving.
This recipe is good honey mustard sauce but it’s definitely not an outback copycat. Try 1C mayo, 3Tb mustard, 1/2C honey, 1/8ts white vinegar, 1.5ts white sugar. Happy eating.
This was actually A LOT like what I remembered Outback honey mustard to taste like, and I loved their honey mustard back in the day. I think this is my new favorite dressing! I did not let it refrigerate for 2 hours and I added a drop of water to thin it out.
do you have a copykat for thier light balsamic dressing?
I do not, but I appreciate the suggestion!
That’s pretty close tbh, 9/10 on the similarity scale. It does seem like a lil something is missing, but that could be because I quartered everything, since it looks to make a bunch and we only have 3 people in this household (one of which doesn’t like honey mustard)
But it turned out closer to outback Honey mustard dressing than anything I’ve tried upto this point, nice work!
What brand of mayonnaise should be used in this recipe?
I would use Hellman’s or Best Mayonnaise for this recipe.
This is pretty darn close. I use to work at the original Outback.
The accurate recipe is equal parts mayo/honey and 1-3 parts honey. So for every 3 tablespoons of mayo and honey you have 1 tablespoon mustard.
I have looked at many recipes and none appear to hit what is truly Outback’s House Nonet mustard vinegarett recipe. They wil also refer to this as :Italian” There are spices that can be seen in the dressing and NONE of the recipes call for it. What’s up?????
My guess, is that they used to serve a honey mustard dressing, this recipe has been on my website for 20+ years, it sounds like they also serve another salad dressing as well.
Being on a diet I could not eat this but my whole family did and devoured their salads. Even my very picky 8 year old daughter loved this salad dressing (the only salad dressing she would eat was ranch).
Outback Honey Mustard 1x Batch
6 cups honey
4 cups Grey Poupon
1 Gallon Mayo
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Small batch
3/4 cup honey
1/2 cup GP
2 cups Mayo
Do u use Dijon mustard?
Yes, you use Dijon mustard.
Spot on! Can’t tell the difference!
I have been looking for this recipe for years, I have even bought the stuff from out back hahaha. Thank you so much for posting this!!
OMG – Just what I was looking for! So delicious – just like Outbacks!
The recipe for the Outback Honey Mustard Dressing tastes just like it.
They have the Best Dressing around
Re: Outback Steakhouse Honey Mustard Dressing recipe
You state that Steven Man suggests using lite mayo rather than regular. I was wondering — does he suggest the change to make the recipe taste more like Outback’s, or does he offer it simply to make the dressing more low cal?
Thanks!
BBN