This Chick Fil A Sauce recipe is the BEST Chicken Dipping Sauce! Smoky, sweet, with a slight tang, it’s PERFECT for dipping chicken nuggets, grilled chicken, or french fries!
Try This sauce with my Homemade Chicken Nuggets for the full Chick Fil A experience!
This Copycat Chick Fil A Sauce Recipe is Spot On!
We are OBSESSED with this Copycat Chik-Fil-A chicken dipping sauce in our house. I make a double batch of the signature sauce every week…which might seem like a lot, but we eat a ton of chicken recipes! I try to grill 2-3 pounds of chicken on Sunday so we have it made during the week to grab for lunch or a quick dinner. I always use the best chicken marinade recipe, and this dipping sauce is SO good with it!
Like many people, we love Chick-Fil-A nuggets and sauce, but since we *try* to limit the amount of fast food we eat, I decided to try my hand at the sauce at home, because we love it just as much (if not more).
What Is So Special About Chick-Fil-A Sauce?
I get this question a lot, and honesty, I understand the curiosity. If you’ve ever seen that line outside of the Chick Fil A at lunch time you know they must have something people love, a “secret sauce” so to say. And of course the juicy, moist chicken and waffle fries are a huge draw, it’s made only better with their dipping sauce on the side.
What IS Chick Fil A Sauce?
But how does it taste? If you’ve never had Chick-Fil-A sauce it has a slightly smoky, slight sweet flavor with notes of honey mustard and a little tang. It’s an extremely versatile sauce and can be used on any protein like steak, pork, or shrimp, but it awesome on burgers or as a sandwich spread too. There are tons of recipes on the internet for this sauce, and I’ve tried a few, but I tweaked the ingredients a little bit and we love it even more than the original! And now they’re even packaging it and selling it, which is amazing, but my version is MUCH cheaper and equally pretty spot on!
Chick Fil A has a huge range of iconic sauces like Polynesian Sauce (my husband’s favorite), Buffalo, or Honey Mustard, but the classic Chick-Fil-A sauce is a delicious blend of ingredients with a smoky tang, and a creamy base.
Ingredients
This chicken sauce recipe is SO easy and is only 4-ish ingredients you probably have in your pantry right now! You need:
- Real Mayonnaise like Hellman’s or Duke’s
- Barbecue Sauce (I always use Sweet Baby Rays)
- Honey
- Yellow Mustard & Dijon Mustard
Just mix the mayo, BBQ sauce, honey, and mustards together in a small bowl and you’re all set!
Variations
I worked hard trying to create a perfect copycat recipe, so any alterations you want to make will probably be delicious, but might make it a true copycat! With that said, here are a few ideas:
- Add some spices. Garlic, black pepper, paprika, turmeric or even cayenne pepper for a little heat!
- Up the tang. Add a splash of apple cider vinegar or lemon juice.
- Onion Powder would really be delicious.
- Use sour cream in place of mayo for more tang, or Miracle Whip to add more sweetness.
Do You Have To Use Two Kinds Of Mustard?
Here’s the deal…you can try all sorts of ingredients combinations, like using honey mustard instead of yellow mustard, or omitting the dijon mustard altogether.
What Brand Of BBQ Sauce Is Best?
Use any brand you prefer, but I find to make it as close to the original sauce as possible you will want to use a sweeter sauce, like Sweet Baby Rays over a sauce that is more vinegar based.
Can Chick Fil A Sauce Expire / Storage
This sauce never lasts in my house so I rarely have to worry about it going bad, but homemade Chick Fil A Sauce will be good stored in an airtight container in the fridge for up to a week.
What Else Could You Dip?
I have a lot of easy recipes on my site that this dip would be great alongside, but here are a few ideas:
- Popeye’s Chicken Sandwich
- Rosemary Chicken Skewers
- Crispy Coconut Chicken Strips
- Chicken and Stuffing Tenders
The BEST Chicken Dipping Sauce
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Total Time: 5 minutes
- Yield: 3/4 cup sauce 1x
- Category: Sauce
- Method: Bowl
- Cuisine: Dinner
Description
The perfect dipping sauce for chicken and beyond!
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- 1 tablespoon yellow mustard
- 1 tablespoon dijon mustard
- 2 1/2 tablespoons honey
- 2 tablespoons BBQ sauce ( I always use Sweet Baby Rays)
Instructions
- In a medium bowl whisk all ingredients together.
- Serve with grilled chicken, chicken nuggets, french fries, or even on a burger!
Notes
Store airtight in refrigerator for up to a week.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 tablespoon
- Calories: 85
- Sugar: 4.8 g
- Sodium: 95.2 mg
- Fat: 7.1 g
- Carbohydrates: 5.3 g
- Protein: 0.3 g
- Cholesterol: 3.9 mg
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Hi Shelly! I very seldom, if ever, leave reviews; however, this particular recipe is most definitely review worthy. My family loves it. We are making homemade chicken tenders just for the sauce. Thanks for the deliciousness.
Screenshotted the recipe! This is awesome. And great introduction and read! Like a cooking show!
OMG you wrote a novel of useless and mindless fluff all for a 4 ingredient, 2 step recipie.
Wow you read short novels 🙂 Hope you enjoy the sauce!
You must have had the same math teacher as Shelly.
What’s your point about the “useless novel & mindless fluff”? Doesn’t sound like the reviewers think that. By the way, Shelly, I liked your response!
Dave, why so rude? Sounds like you’re having a bad day! Hopefully tomorrow will be a better one.
I used hickory brown sugar baby rays and honestly this reminds me of Chick-Fil-A sauce. But better!!!! Thank you so much!
I need to try that!
So, this really is the best. My family of 9 couldn’t get enough—to the point that when the chicken was gone, we ate more baby carrots and cucumber slices so we could eat more sauce. Even my pickier than picky 2 yr old was loving it. Thank you so much!!!
Delicious! Thanks for sharing!
This is the best dipping sauce I’ve ever had!! So easy to put together and everyone at the table raved about it. Thank you for posting this recipe ?
So glad you liked it!!
This is seriously the BEST sauce in all the land. My family loves it! We used a honey BBQ sauce from Aldi’s and it is pure perfection.
This was seriously sooooo good! I made your amazing marinade for the chicken, and then dipped it in this sauce. It was a winner with my husband and three boys! My seven year old said it tasted better than Chick-fil-A sauce!
Can I sub something else for the dijon mustard? I don’t usually have that on hand.
You can omit it entirely or add more yellow mustard!
what type of bbq sauce do you typically use? We’re usually a sweet baby rays family, but there are so many variations to bbq sauces!!
I use Sweet Baby Rays 🙂