Make Mustard Yourself: The Best Tips and Tricks

To make mustard yourself, you only need a few ingredients. The basic recipe can be modified into many tasty variations. Mild or spicy, you can prepare mustard just the way you like it in just a few simple steps.

The basic recipe for making mustard yourself

Be sure to use fresh, quality ingredients. This guarantees a wonderfully spicy taste experience.

• Ingredients for homemade mustard: 250 g mustard seeds or mustard powder, 50 g sugar, 10 g salt, 175 ml each of water, and apple cider vinegar.
• If you use mustard seeds as a base, you must grind them first. This works best with the food processor.
• Grind the grains as fine as you like. You determine how coarse the mustard will be later. The grainier the mustard, the crunchier it will be in taste.
• If you use mustard powder, you can use it without any preparation.
• Put the water and apple cider vinegar in a saucepan and heat the mixture. The liquid must not boil, otherwise, the vinegar will evaporate. Then let the water and vinegar mixture cool down until it is lukewarm.
• Using a blender, stir the ground mustard seeds or mustard powder into the liquid. Add the salt and sugar.
• Let the paste steep for a few hours, then pour into sterile jars. The mustard can be stored in the refrigerator for six months.
• The homemade mustard is initially very spicy, but after a few days, it loses its sharpness and finally tastes pleasantly spicy.

Four variants for homemade mustard

Once the basic recipe is ready, you can refine the mustard as you wish.

• You get extra hot mustard if you add a ground chili pepper to the basic recipe. Even with a teaspoon of wasabi, the mustard becomes a real stimulant.
• Herb mustard is an interesting twist on the basic recipe. Finely chop the herbs and mix them into the mustard. Thyme, rosemary, or dill taste particularly good.
• Raspberries give the basic recipe a fruity note. Puree 100 g of fresh raspberries and mix the puree into the mustard paste. If you like it sweeter, add a tablespoon of honey.
• For delicious honey mustard, add two to three tablespoons of honey to the basic recipe. Add another teaspoon of finely chopped dill. The honey mustard goes wonderfully with salmon and other fish dishes.