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Make your own Chick Fil A Sauce at home! This sauce is a cross between honey mustard and bbq sauce and is perfect for dipping fries or chicken.
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What I love About this Chick Fil A Sauce
- Quick: With simple pantry ingredients and 5 minutes of time this sauce is fast to whip together at the last minute.
- Budget Friendly: We can get the same taste without having to spend money on take out. Our kids are big fans of our homemade chick fil a nuggets also!
- Adaptable: Since we’re making a homemade sauce, this allows us to customize and make it more to our liking, or make a larger batch to ensure we don’t run out.
Ingredients:
Notes on some ingredients:
- Honey: this adds a hint of sweetness, the color of your honey will determine the coloring of your sauce.
- Dijon/Yellow Mustard: both are used in this recipe.
- Lemon: can be substituted with apple cider vinegar.
- BBQ Sauce: use your favorite, a great option is Sweet Baby Rays.
How to make (step-by-step):
- Step 1: combine the ingredients, add all ingredients to a bowl and stir or whisk together until well combined.
- Step 2: chill, let the sauce rest in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes before using.
Expert Tips:
- Don’t grab a flavored, extra sweet BBQ sauce. Go with an Original flavor/style. This allows you to control the sweetness with the honey in the recipe.
- Make a double batch so that you can keep some leftovers in the fridge.
- If you want a smokier flavor try adding a drop of some liquid smoke in the recipe.
Storage Information
Keep in the refrigerator in a sealed container for 3-4 days. Whisk back together if needed before serving.
More recipes to try:
- Copycat Chick Fil A Nuggets
- Restaurant Style Salsa
- Roasted Corn Salsa (Chipotle Copycat!)
- Copycat Texas Roadhouse Rolls with Cinnamon Butter
Copycat Chick-Fil-A Sauce
This Copycat Chick-Fil-A Sauce is perfect for dipping fries, chicken, or whatever else your heart desires. Super easy to make at home.
Ingredients
- ¼ cup mayonnaise
- 2 tbsp honey
- 1 tbsp yellow mustard
- 2 tsp Dijon mustard
- 2 tsp lemon juice freshly squeezed
- 2 tbsp BBQ sauce
Instructions
- Mix: Whisk together mayonnaise, honey, mustards, lemon juice and BBQ sauce.
- Chill: cover and place in refrigerator for at least 30 minutes prior to using.
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Notes
- Honey: this adds a hint of sweetness, the color of your honey will determine the coloring of your sauce.
- Dijon/Yellow Mustard: both are used in this recipe.
- Lemon: can be substituted with apple cider vinegar.
- BBQ Sauce: use your favorite, a great option is Sweet Baby Rays.
Nutrition
Calories: 293kcal | Carbohydrates: 25g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 22g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Cholesterol: 12mg | Sodium: 495mg | Potassium: 39mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 24g | Vitamin A: 38IU | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 6mg | Iron: 1mg
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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Recipe first published November 17, 2014. Updated September 8, 2021 with new images, video and information. Recipe remains unchanged.
Thanks so much for sharing this! I was getting ready to throw tater totals in the oven when my husband wished he had some Chic Fil-A sauce to go with. Found your recipe and ran it up (so easy!). Only had 17 min to cool, and used honey bbq sauce b/c it was what I had. I actually had a small go container of real sauce in the fridge, so I got to compare to the real thing… and I couldn’t honestly tell the difference! Thanks again, this is now in the book!
Wonderful! So happy this recipe was just what you needed. Thank you for the review.
Great taste, quite close to the Chick fil À sauce. We add more mayo. This is a personal preference thing BUT it does help with the runny consistency as well.
This sauce is absolutely the best .
I have to make it (quadruple batch) at my family’s request every time we have chicken strips and fries. Love it!!!
I had to modify for the ingredients I had in my kitchen and to make a smaller batch for just myself. I didn’t have any honey or a fresh lemon, and if I wanted to go to the store, I’d just get a bottle of Chic-fil-a sauce while I was there! This is what I came up with. I used 3 tablespoons Ken’s Honey Mustard dressing, 2 tablespoons Sticky Fingers Barbecue Sauce, 3 tablespoons Great Value Mayonnaise and 1 tsp. lemon juice (the kind in the plastic lemon). It came out fantastic! Sweet and tangy – put it on a turkey burger with lettuce.
This sauce is amazing! Tastes just like Chick-Fil-A. I used it on a grilled chicken sandwich and it was delicious! The only con was that it was a bit too runny, but the flavor was so good I didn’t mind. But how could I make it a bit thicker I wonder?
Tasted good but was more of a honey mustard and not chick-fil-a sauce. Was runny and not thick.
Being home and cooking entirely from home, my husband and I have been craving Chick-fil-A, specifically their signature Chick-fil-A sauce. This tastes EXACTLY like the real stuff! Cheap and easy to make, and a major plus that I can make it in bulk to keep in our fridge now!