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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.
You have no idea how great this is. Chick Fil A sauce is always the hit in my house. The ingredients would go great with just about any veggie. I will have to try this soon.
I will definitely try this, but you can also mimic the Chik-Fil-A sauce with Trader Joe’s Carolina Gold BBQ sauce and mayonnaise. Generally I use equal parts of the two ingredients.
Just made this tonight! It was delicious!! Used a little less lemon juice then what the recipie called for.
Just made this, and it’s absolutely wonderful! the only thing I did differently is double the mayo to make it a little creamier.
Just curious, what kind of barbecue sauce do you use for this recipe? There are so many out there and they all taste so different, I can imagine it would make the sauce taste different depending on what type you use. Thanks!
Hi Melissa! I just used an Original BBQ sauce when I made mine. And the sauce turned out wonderful! I do imagine using a different kind would change up the flavor a little bit.
Brand of sauce?
Hi Bryn 🙂 i just used a store brand because that’s what I had!
I used Sweet Baby Ray’s sauce – even my 5 year old thought it tasted the same! Awesome!!
Yay!! That’s a definite win right there!
Oh my goodness! We love that stuff! Great pictures!
You want to hear something truly, utterly sad? There are no Chick Fil A’s anywhere near our house. Like, we need to cross a bridge and travel multiple hours to get to one. Yea, I know… the horror!!! Love that I can bring this sauce into my kitchen!! Sweet 🙂
I seriously could eat Chick-fil-a every single day– love this sauce– thanks!!
Wow! Those fries and sauce look perfect. If it tates like Chick Fil A I know I’ll love it!
Have a great day Serene!
Nummy! I love Chick-Fil-A sauce and now I can make it at home! It’s funny that now I’m planning a menu around the sauce. Fries, chicken tenders… 😉