5-Minute Sweet & Spicy Sriracha Sauce
This sweet and spicy sriracha sauce recipe has the perfect balance of flavor, heat, and sweet. It is a delicious match for a variety of foods, and it’s beyond easy with just three high-quality ingredients. As with most homemade sauces, this honey sriracha sauce has the power to take a dish from “just okay” all the way to “oh my amazing.”
A Homemade Sriracha Dipping Sauce
This spicy sweet sriracha sauce recipe was first created for my sweet potato fritters recipe and my baked sweet potato slices with brown sugar and butter. Like most dippable, fried, sweet potato treats, those fritters needed something that was worthy of them. Ketchup clashes, mayo is too bland, BBQ sauce overwhelms, and honey is too sweet. While honey mustard was good, it wasn’t great. I wanted a dipping sauce with the perfect balance of spicy and sweet, full of flavor but not too much heat.
I’ve put it on rockfish sandwiches, bacon avocado burgers, and nachos. It’s been used as a dipping sauce for soft pretzels and onion rings and as a dressing for spinach salad. This honey sriracha mayo sauce is super versatile, and it’s become one of my favorite homemade dressing and sauce recipes.
Featured Ingredient: Sriracha Sauce
If you are not familiar with Sriracha, let me be the first to introduce you. It’s a hot sauce unlike any other hot sauce. They have a pretty impressive back story that you can check out at the parent site Huy Fong.
The most common use of sriracha in my house is for this sauce, but I also include it in my cilantro lime chicken & rice and have been known to drizzle it on greek lemon chicken kebabs. What I like most about sriracha is that I can taste the actual flavor beneath all that heat.
While I would never call myself a hot sauce expert, I have tried this sauce with a couple of other hot sauces, and for me, they came up lacking. If you try it with your favorite hot sauce and it works, let me know in the comments below!
How to Make Sweet & Spicy Sriracha Sauce
How is this version different from the original?
I originally developed this spicy mayo recipe using a simple ratio of 3 parts mayo to 1 part honey to 1.5 part sriracha. As I began using it for more and more things, I realized that I much prefer it with a bit more mayo while keeping the honey and sriracha equal.
With the new ratio, the sauce is thicker, but has slightly less heat, which means I can use more. As with all homemade sauces, the ratios are, of course, adjustable. If you want a spicy flavor but less heat, cut the sriracha in half. If you like it really spicy, double it. It’s really up to you. Start with the suggested amounts and start adjusting.
How to Store and Reheat
Place it in the fridge in an airtight container. I use pint-sized glass canning jars, but any airtight container will work.
Typically this sauce will last a good week or so in the fridge. Honey and sriracha have very long shelf lives, but if your mayo expires in 2 days, so will this sauce. If it smells funny, has something growing on it, or has changed consistency, don’t taste it, just toss it.
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5-Minute Sweet & Spicy Sriracha Sauce
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup Mayonnaise
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1/4 cup sriracha sauce
Instructions
- Place all ingredients in a bowl and whisk together until smooth.
- Use as a dipping sauce, salad dressing, or sandwich spread on burgers, fries, sweet potatoes, nachos, tacos, or anything else you can think of that needs a little kick.
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Sriracha is one of our favorite sauces and something we use ALL THE TIME! Had never tried a variation like this before reading your recipe. Just gave it a shot and it came out perfect for our burgers tonight. Thanks for the tips!
I use mayonnaise,red chili sauce for sweetness and Sriracha sauce for heat. Perfecto.
So simple, and yet, so great! Neither the heat nor the sweet is overpowering at the recipe’s proportions. Used this on Fried Green Tomatoes and loved it. This is a keeper! Thank you Renee!
I can practically taste this! Such a versatile sauce full of flavour!
Thanks Betty!
Yummy dip for roasted brussels sprouts 🙂
Great idea!! It would taste amazing with roasted brussels sprouts!
Heat and sweet….love it. This sauce would be delicious on so many dishes. Will keep this for the recipe box.
Enjoy!!
I love sriracha sauce but never thought to make my own! Thanks for sharing!
It’s not actually a recipe to make your own sriracha. I leave that up to the experts who have been at it for over 30 years. This recipe starts sriracha as one of the main ingredients and turns it into something with a bit less heat and a little bit of sweet.