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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.
Looking for more sauce recipes? Make sure you try our Taco Bell quesadilla sauce, lime crema, and homemade ranch dressing.
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.
Video
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.
We live in Canada, where there are no Chick-fil-a restaurants. I made this with the Copycat Chick-fil-a nuggets from Kristen Schell, and my husband said (I didn’t tell him what it was) “This kind of looks like Chick-fil-a sauce” *tastes it* “It is Chick-fil-a sauce! Where did you get it?” haha, thanks for the awesome recipe!
How fun!! I love this story! Sounds like you made his night 🙂 I’m so glad you enjoyed the recipe.
Chick Fil A waffle fries are my favorite! This sauce will be a great addition to my recipe book.
Gah! This is perfection. We could eat that sauce with a spoon and now we don’t have to venture out to Chick Fil A for it!
This looks amazing! I can devour that whole plate of fries and dip myself, too!
I have never had Chick-Fil-A sauce! But I have a thing for sauces, and I am definitely trying this!
Their spicy chicken is my favorite, too! How have I never not tried this sauce?! Can’t wait to try your homemade version!
The Chick- Fil- A sauce is what makes go back to Chick – Fil – A. Great job!
We love that stuff! Can’t wait to try making it at home. Thanks for the recipe!
What kind of BBQ sauce do you use? I have sweet and spicy at home, but I want to make this exactly right.
Hi Diane, I use Original BBQ sauce when I make this. It doesn’t matter which brand, I’ve tried several. I typically just have a generic store brand on hand that I use 🙂 You can use the sweet and spicy also, but it will give that flavor to the Chick Fil A sauce also. Hope that helps!
LOVE! Chick-Fil-A! We finally have one opening in our town but it’ll be busy for months. Glad I can make this at home!