Honey Mustard Sauce for Ham

This Honey Mustard Sauce recipe is perfectly paired with my Instant Pot Ham or any ham recipes for that matter! I love that it's not overly sweet, slightly tangy, and packed with flavor.

I always serve this honey mustard sauce as part of my Eastern dinner, especially with crockpot spiral ham, and for Christmas, with smoked prime rib. What can I say? I've never been a horseradish sauce kind of girl.

It takes a plain ham to a whole new level, but is surprisingly delicious with chicken and seafood as well!

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• 🧐 Why This Recipe Works
• 🛒 What You Need For This Recipe
• 🔖 Recipe Ingredients and Substitutions
• 🍯 How to Make Honey Mustard Sauce
• 🤷🏻‍♀️ Recipe FAQs
• 👩🏼‍🍳 Pro Tips
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🧐 Why This Recipe Works

• This is a super easy recipe that only requires a few steps and a few simple ingredients. It's as easy as adding all the ingredients into a saucepan and simmering the sauce for a few minutes. You can handle that, right?
• The honey in the sauce provides just the right amount of sweetness and balances out the acidity of the mustard and vinegar. Unlike many ham sauce recipes, it's not overly sweet. That's because many mustard sauce recipes use pineapple juice, orange juice, crushed pineapple, and brown sugar. They should be called sweet pineapple sauce instead of ham sauce.
• The cayenne pepper adds a nice amount of heat but can be left out for a more mild honey mustard sauce. Especially if serving it to kids, with chicken nuggets, for example.
• This mustard sauce goes perfectly over spiral ham instead of a sweet ham glaze. Be sure to drizzle it over leftover ham and in ham sandwiches too!

🛒 What You Need For This Recipe

🔖 Recipe Ingredients and Substitutions

• Oil: If you aren't cooking a ham or don't have pan juices to add to the sauce, you can add olive oil instead. Avocado oil is another great option.
• Mustard: Don't have dijon mustard? That's alright, just use plain yellow mustard. If you like horseradish, add a teaspoon of that too to make the mustard spicier.
• Vinegar: Although I add red wine vinegar, you can substitute apple cider vinegar or white vinegar if you need to.
• Sage: Make sure to use rubbed sage in this recipe. You can usually find it in the spice aisle. Ground sage is a lot finer and usually tastes more bitter so I don't recommend using it. If you do use it, try ½ teaspoon before adding more. Try substituting a teaspoon of roesmary instead.

🍯 How to Make Honey Mustard Sauce

STEP 1: Add ¼ cup of baked ham pan juices or olive oil to a small or medium saucepan. Stir in the remaining mustard sauce ingredients as you heat them over medium heat.

STEP 2: Once mixed, whisk the sauce over low heat until it begins to boil then simmer for a few minutes until it thickens.

Serve this yummy honey mustard sauce for Easter dinner Drizzle mustard sauce over ham slices, or use it as a dipping sauce with shrimp, other seafood, and or chicken wings or nuggets.

🤷🏻‍♀️ Recipe FAQs

👩🏼‍🍳 Pro Tips

• Although I've found using ¼ cup of the pan juices enhances the flavor of the mustard sauce, feel free to substitute the pan juices with mayonnaise.
• You can also substitute the pan juices with olive oil for a healthier alternative.
• Red wine vinegar or white wine vinegar can be used in the recipe.
• If you don't have dijon mustard, substitute with plain mustard, and a tablespoon or more of horseradish sauce.
• Try experimenting with other herbs and spices to see what you can come up with.

If you enjoy making your own homemade sauces, you may want to check out these other delicious sauces: Yogurt Shawarma Sauce, Pasta Cream Cheese Sauce, Chimichurri Sauce, and 5-Ingredient Sriracha Aioli.

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