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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.
Well at five o’clock Super Bowl Sunday and my son announced he forgot he was supposed to make his copycat Chic Filet nuggets. Well, by luck I just happened to buy a three lb bag of Sams club nuggets on Friday! Stuck them in the oven, whipped up this sauce and he was out the door at 5:30! Thank you for saving the day. Cocktail time for me!
What? Where’s the cheese?! I would have never imagined it was not cheese?!
This is fun! But, if you look at the actual ingredients of the sauce, you’ll see there is no honey in it. It is basically (the ingredients for) mayonnaise, followed by BBQ sauce, followed by mustard, with a few thickeners thrown in. 🙂 https://www.chick-fil-a.com/Sauces-Dressings
This sauce is incredibly close to the real chick-fill-a sauce, 20 out of 10.
Not quite chick-fil-a…. but good enough to make my chick-fil-a loving grand-daughter happy! A recipe I can see myself making over and over. Thank you for sharing.
Oh my goodness – made this tonight and if you’d had dinner with us, you’d have sworn I drove through Chick-Fil-A and brought dinner home! We had those new (to us anyway) Sam’s Club Southern chicken bites and Ore-Ida waffle fries with the copycat sauce. Thanks for the recipe!
Yum!! Sounds like a delicious dinner!
What kind/brand of barbecue sauce did you use?
I’ve made it with several kinds. I always just use what I have on hand. Either a Kraft BBQ sauce, or Sweet Baby Rays. But I always use an original flavor. Not a dressed up BBQ sauce.
How long does this keep in the refrigerator?
I’ve had it in the fridge for up to 3 days before we eat it all.. Just give it a stir before you use it.
Don’t forget to add the warm chocolate chip cookies to your order! I think those are some of the best of all restaurant cookies. I can’t wait to try this recipe. The sauce is to die for!!!
I need to try those cookies next time I go!! Thanks 🙂
don’t put that much bbq in it folks