Hot Honey Sauce (2 Ingredients)

Recipes

Dec 5

This easy hot honey sauce recipe uses 2 ingredient and comes together in 5 minutes. It’s the perfect addition to spice up pizza, chicken, vegetables, and more!

Everyone needs a recipe for hot honey sauce because it is an easy way to scale up most recipes. It’s uses minimal ingredients, comes together quickly, requires very few cooking skills, and adds the perfect sweet yet spicy flavor to your recipes!

I’m often using hot honey as a sauce or as a hot honey dip in my recipes (see these chicken drumsticks and these hot honey brussels sprouts) that I figured you should just have my easy hot honey sauce recipe while you’re at it!

There are many ways to make hot honey but I prefer to keep mine simple, using just two ingredients, so that you can make it over and over again with ease.

What goes with hot honey?

A better question would be “what doesn’t go with hot honey?” This hot honey dip pairs perfectly with so many dishes including:

Baked chicken drumsticks with hot honey sauce
Friday night prosciutto pizza topped with hot honey
Hot honey brussel sprouts
Chicken tenders dunked into a hot honey dip
Hot honey over cottage cheese and sourdough toast
Served over a baked brie and topped with medjool dates and hot honey

There are truly so many options to choose from, hot honey plays well with others.

hot honey drip. — Dripping hot honey sauce

Why you’ll love this recipe:

This hot honey sauce recipe is so easy and you’ll love it because:

It needs just two ingredients: honey and a spice (I used crushed red pepper)
Comes together in 5 minutes with one pan
Easy to make and does not require fancy cooking skills
Versatile to add to a variety of recipes
Completely customizable- you get to choose your spice source and spice level!

Ingredients:

Honey: whichever brand is your favorite
Crushed red pepper: this is what makes this honey “hot honey.” There are a variety of other options to choose from to add some heat but I tend to gravitate towards crushed red pepper because I almost always have it in my pantry!

Recipe FAQ:

1) Can I use a different spice to make hot honey?

Crushed red pepper is just one spice option to make hot honey. Another common option is sriracha to make a hot sriracha honey which is equally as delicious. Beyond that, you can add other spices like cayenne pepper or simmer your honey with jalapeños or red chili peppers to spice it up!

2) How to store hot honey?

Once made, hot honey can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature or in the refrigerator!

3) How can I change the spice level of my hot honey?

The beauty of hot honey is that you get to make it match your own taste preferences! For this particular recipe:

For a mild hot honey- use 1 tsp to ½ tbsp crushed red pepper flakes with ½ cup honey.
For a spicy hot honey- use 2 tbsp crushed red pepper flakes with ½ cup honey. You could also do 1 tbsp red pepper flakes and 1 tbsp sriracha.