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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.
Wow really nice! I’m so happy I can have chick fil a on sundays now
Yay!!!
Thank you thank you thank you! I lived in alabama for 25 years and recently moved to the Pacific Northwest. Never thought I’d miss fast food but cfa was the exception!
Amazing! I am eating this with tater tots as I write this…10/10 would make again.
What kind of mayonnaise do you use? Thank you
I use whatever kind I have on hand! Typically just regular Kraft mayo. Any mayo you prefer will work though 🙂
I LOVE chick fil a sauce and sadly this is not eve close to it. I guess I’ll have to keep experimenting.
Where did you get those waffle fries??
Hi Christin! Don’t those fries look amazing?! I always get the Alexia Foods brand of fries.
Just followed the recipe to a ‘t’ and this is NOTHING like the real chick-fil-a sauce. Not sure what everyone else is tasting but this is NO WHERE NEAR the awesomeness from chick-fil-a. Very disappointed.
Delicious! I followed your recipe exactly and the flavor was spot-on! I used a “smokey” bbq sauce from trader joe’s. The consistency and color were different, it was a little runny, but neither of those bothered me! Thanks for sharing!
So glad you enjoyed Molly! Thanks so much 🙂
Wow! I will def. have to try this recipe! Thanks so much! Have you tried making the Creamy Salsa dressing (from Chick-fil-A) at all?
Hope you enjoy the sauce! And I haven’t made a creamy salsa dressing yet. I actually have that on my list of things to make soon though! Be on the lookout in January sometime 🙂
Omg, if you figure that out, I’ll be in heaven.
Love that stuff.
This is great! I did add a dash of Worcestershire sauce and I also doubled the mayo.
Then, it was absolutely perfect!
My kids love it!
I’m so glad! Thanks for sharing Melissa!