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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.
All about this Chick Fil A Sauce…
- Of course you can buy a large squeeze bottle of the sauce, but did you know it’s just as easy to make it at home?
- It’s been said the secret of the sauce is that it is honey mustard mixed with coleslaw or ranch dressing. I have heard from employees though that it’s not ranch it’s the coleslaw dressing, which is very similar to this particular recipe. You can’t get closer unless you go to the restaurant yourself.
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.
FAQ’s:
What is Chick Fil A Sauce?
If you have never been to the restaurant to try the original, the flavor is a cross between honey mustard and BBQ sauce.
What can I use this sauce on?
This sauce is perfect for dipping fries or enjoying with chicken. You can also use it as a spread on sandwiches or burgers if you like.
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.
Sauce was a huge hit with my family of 6…picky teenagers included!! My daughter actually made a second batch of sauce the next day so now I know I better keep all these ingredients on hand. She was wondering about making it a bit thicker? Any advice on what to add a little more of or a little less of? Thanks!!
I just tried this because I’m sick and can’t go out to get chick fil a and so this is actually really good no matter how many doubts I had about the lemon juice. I tasted some and now my tater tots are on there way and I am prepared to eat them on the floor while watching a crap ton of doctor who in my living room
So glad the recipe hit the spot!! Hope you feel better!
this sauce is amazing, just add a little less honey than the recipe says
Or you could just throw together honey mustard with honey bbq sauce. Made my friends do a blind taste test and they could barely tell a difference and beyond that only about half could guess which one was homemade and which one was Chic-fil-a. Just got to make sure you get the right ratio. Roughly you want 3/4 honey musturd and 1/4 bbq sauce.
Perfect! Thank you!
Your video for this recipe is spot on for mom life. Love that you kept the uncut footage.
So bomb !! Spot on recipe that’s super easy to double if you drown your food in sauce like my family does ?
Made some chicken tenders with flour , egg and Panko. My daughter came home from soccer and said she didn’t like them (although crispy and delicious) until she tried this sauce. She ate more than expected! Thank you!
It won’t let me pin 🙁
oh no!! I am in the process of updating those social share buttons, but I do notice that the pin it button that hovers on the images works. Are you trying to pin from mobile?? So sorry to bother you with questions, I just want to make sure I get everything fixed!
Amazing!!! Thank you so much for this recipe 🙂 My entire family loved it!