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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.
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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.
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Hello! Thank you so much for posting this! We live overseas and my husband and kids were really missing Chik Fil A sauce, so I searched for a copy cat and found yours! We really like your sauce, it has become our go to sauce for almost anything!! Thank you! Question- may I post the recipe on my blog as long as I link back or give credit to you?
Thanks,
Shellee
Hi Shellee! Thanks so much. I’m so glad you enjoy the recipe! Feel free to share on your own blog with a link back 🙂 Thanks so much for asking!
Tastes pretty close to the real thing. I made a double batch so we’d have extra to store in the fridge. I think we’ll be making this pretty often as the closest Chick fil a is 90 miles away.
Thanks Kelly! I’m so glad you enjoyed it!
This was good! Next time, I would double the mayo to make it more true to Chick-fil-a texture, and half the honey as well as lemon juice. Thanks for this recipe!
Thanks for the tips Emma! 🙂
How important is the lemon juice? My sister and I are allergic ?
Hi Kate! The lemon juice is just adding a bit of acidity. You can definitely leave it out and just add a splash of white vinegar for the same effect.
Am I the only one who tried this recipe and didn’t get the desired result? My sauce came out runny and tasted to sweet. Really love Chick-fil-A sauce! So really disappointed! Followed directions exactly.
So sorry it didn’t turn out! I’ve never had it end up runny. So it’s possible it was the type of BBQ sauce or something else that might have been different.
* DIDN”T FOLLOW THE RECIPE * Only used what I had on hand. Would’ve made bbq sauce but was pressed for time. Used mayo, yellow mustard, and raw honey. Didn’t measure because I’m an experienced cook and just eyed it. Came out nice and creamy and it was delicious! Put it on grilled chicken and bacon sandwiches! YUM! Thanks for the recipe!
I wanted to thank youu for this good read!!I absolutely loved every little bit of it.
I have got yyou book-marked to check out new stuff you post…
Chick-fil-a sauce is a mix of 3 other sauces: honey mustard, BBQ, and ranch. Hope that helps y’all.
Hi Mary, Chick fil A sauce is actually a mixture of mustard, bbq sauce and their cole slaw dressing. Which is basically what I have here. Except instead of using a store bought cole slaw dressing I made my own homemade version.
Great recipe, 10/10! One thing I like to add is about a teaspoon of smoked paprika, really makes the sauce for me.
Thanks so much! And that sounds delicious!