Homemade honey mustard

How to prepare homemade mustard with honey .

Today I bring you a great recipe so that those of you who are lovers of this spice can prepare your own mustard at home, a honey mustard , using that, honey, as a sweetener instead of sugar.

Enjoying at home with all the ideas and  recipes of homemade sauces   is a fantastic option for your dishes to be of quality.

We call mustard both the seed and a type of plant in the cruciferous family. Although there are some forty different species throughout the planet, only three types are of gastronomic interest: white, black and wild mustard. 

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The name of mustard , as we know it today, appears in France in 1220, moustarde , derived from the Latin word mustum ardens , or what is the same, burning must .

Around the same time it appears in Spanish with the name of mustard and in Italian as shown. Despite this, it is known that the Chinese, 3,000 years ago, already cultivated this plant for their consumption, both medical and food.

In Greece it was used as a condiment and even the great Pythagoras claimed that it sharpened the wit. The Romans used it both as a medicinal plant and as a seasoning and flavoring for food and drinks.

In the Middle Ages it was when this plant became very popular in Europe since it was used as a condiment for meat, with the intention in many cases of concealing its poor condition due to the difficulties of conservation. It is in the 13th century when the preparation of mustard in sauce appears and becomes famous in Dijón .

I recommend this base for many sauces on the blog for many recipes, from a beef carpaccio accompanied with this sauce, a traditional roasted chicken with mustard , spaghetti with mustard and orange sauce , some caramelized ribs with honey or this chicken curry .

A lot of ideas so that your kitchen has an exotic touch and little by little at home, enjoy new flavors.

Preparation of honey mustard

1. We put the mustard grains in a bowl and cover them with the vinegar and 100 ml. of water for 12 hours.
2. After this time we add the rest of the ingredients and crush the mixture with the mixer.
3. We pass the mixture to a saucepan and cook for 2 or 3 minutes until we see that it begins to thicken. We remove from the fire and pour into a glass jar.
4. We let the mixture rest for 2 or 3 days in the fridge before consuming it, thus reducing part of its bitterness.
5. We can preserve the mustard if we put it under vacuum, for several months and once opened for about 2 weeks in the fridge.

You can see all the photos of the step by step  in the next album .

Tips for a perfect honey mustard sauce

• Here you have how to prepare honey mustard in a homemade way. We can use mustard grains in many ways in the kitchen, whole for pickles or pickles, or crushed, raw or roasted, to make sauces, flavor rice dishes or even oils. 
• Today there is a great variety of mustard sauce preparations, with Dijón , creamy and láncienne mustards being among the best known worldwide .
• This base for a  honey and mustard sauce is ideal for salads, but also for fish and meat.
• We will only have to add to this base paste the mayonnaise to your liking and mix. That sweet touch of honey with the characteristic flavor of mustard together with the sweetness that mayonnaise gives us, the base sauce that we will use for many dishes.
• And remember that if we add mayonnaise it must be in the fridge, well covered and for at most 3 days.