Creamy Honey Salad Dressing | Easy 5-Ingredient Dressing | Everyday Gourmet 2026

I want to show you a really versatile dressing. It's my creamy honey dressing. And I'm going to dress some simple winter leaves like radicchio, I've got some coz and some burr bosque pear, it goes really well with it. But it also goes with other savoury dishes, some grilled chicken, even some grilled fish. So I'm using some creme fraiche. And usually with a dressing, you would use extra virgin olive oil. But the creme fraiche is used as opposed to it because this is the fatty addition to it. So creme fraiche, and I really like its tanginess, that's why it goes so nicely with the honey. To this, I'll add some Dijon mustard and some white wine vinegar, you always need a little bit of acid, give that a stir. And now for the honey. And when you're using a honey in a dressing, you want to use a really good quality honey. And this one is 100% cold extracted Australian honey, meaning it's been slowly processed so all the nutrients are in it too. So I'm just going to use this to drizzle that in. Okay, that is just right. We're going to stir that in, a pinch of salt and some pepper. And that's ready to go. I just want to have a taste of it just to make sure that it's all balanced. It's so good, honey in dressings, oh, it's just a lovely touch. And it is going to go really nicely with this bitter green. So radicchio is quite bitter and it's hearty. So I'm just going to take the base out. And the reason I do that is because I just want to break up these hearty, bitter leaves. Just add them to that. Look at the purple color, isn't that stunning? I'll add a few of the baby cozz leaves, particularly the heart because they're the crunchiest bits. And our burbosque pear, and you know that it's burbosque because of its brown color. And I want one that's not too ripe. I actually want it for the crunchiness of it. So this one's just right. Cut down and we're just going to thinly slice it. And as we know, honey and pears are best friends. So it's just a perfect pairing. Pop that in there. Then I'm just going to toss everything together. And whenever you're tossing a salad like this, please do it at the last minute. Just so everything stays quite crisp. Fantastic. Okay, I'll use my clean hands to plate this up because I just want to get some height on this salad. Top that up. You could even add some parmesan. That would be a lovely addition if you wanted some cheese. And one last ingredient. Some macadamia nuts. So just a few of those on top. Some extra crunch. I'm just going to roughly chop them. You could also use almonds for this. That would be lovely. And we'll sprinkle it over the top. It's such an elegant salad. That is one of those moreish salads where you have one bite and you just need a second bite because it's creamy. It's sweet. It's tangy. That's the perfect dressing. Pop that in your repertoire.