Skip the restaurant and make this craveable sauce at home.
You guys know that I try to avoid fast food most of the time. Home cooking is much healthier, and cheaper too. But every so often, I must confess, I get a craving for Chick-Fil-A.
It’s not about the chicken – I can cook perfectly good chicken at home, thank you very much. It’s the sauce. That special sauce you get only from Chick-Fil-A – like a cross between smoky barbecue sauce and a creamy honey-mustard, with just a hint of lemon.
Well, it’s just plain silly to go out for chicken when all you really want is the sauce. And ordering a tub of the sauce by itself would be even sillier. So I realized I’d just have to make my own.
And once I got to work, it turned out to be pretty easy. All the components – mustard, mayo, barbecue sauce, lemon, and honey – were right in my fridge and pantry. It was just a question of adjusting the amounts until I achieved that perfect blend of creamy and spicy, tangy and sweet.
So now, with my new recipe, you can have the craveable taste of Chick-Fil-A sauce in your own kitchen whenever you want. You’re welcome.
Copycat Chick Fil A Sauce
Ingredients:
1/4 cup honey
2 tablespoons yellow mustard
1/4 cup barbecue sauce
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/2 cup mayonnaise
DIRECTIONS:
1. Mix together and refrigerate for at least an hour.
Enjoy with your favorite chicken tenders, nuggets and french fries!
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Copycat Chick Fil A Sauce
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup honey
- 2 tablespoons yellow mustard
- 1/4 cup barbecue sauce
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
Instructions
- Mix together and refrigerate for at least an hour.
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Nutrition Information:
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Jack says
Absolutely delicious! Tastes a lot like the real thing!
Kim Wiest says
There are so many types of BBQ sauce, can you be more specific? Thank you!
Corey says
The one I use the most is Sweet Baby Rays Original
K P says
I am an American living in Turkey and always crave Chick-Fil-A. Thank you so much for this recipe and bringing home to me!
Corey says
So happy I could help! lol
K. Johnson says
Don’t ever go to chick-fal-a. Lines are too long but I boycott them also. Sell chicken stay out of politics! Made the sauce and it was good! Thanks
Stephen cowart says
This is amazing. I did a blind taste test and I cannot tell the difference. Thank you very much.
MayiZam says
Yum yum! So good! I think I will add a little less honey next time. If you don’t have bbq sauce you can use ketchup + smoked paprika instead. Bonus of using paprika? You get the little red specks from the real sauce. Thank you for the recipe!
Mom Tordoff says
Wow! Made this today and we loved it. It’s going to be a staple in my fridge. I used sugar free pancak syrup because I didn’t have honey and it’s really so close I can’t tell the difference snd my husband likes it better than the restaurant style.
Norma says
This is just like their sauce. Plan to use it for New years eve. Thank you for the recipe!
Eek says
All this recipe is missing is a little liquid smoke, then it will be spot on.
Roni Rawlins says
It tastes JUST like Chick Fil A Sauce on! I can’t believe it! I doubled the lemon juice for an extra tang or bute and I can’t stop eating it!
SHONDA SKINNER says
I have never had the chick fila sauce. But this recipe just looked and easy and i thought i would try it… THIS IS DELICIOUS!!!!!!! thanks for sharing this recipe
Genie says
This is yummy, I omitted the honey completely!! Still so yummy, didn’t miss the extra sweetness at all
Meg says
Spot on. Delicious, thank you for sharing!
Jan says
Oh my goodness, what were you thinking with this recipe—it is soooooo good, I literally could drink it! It is spot on, actually even better because there are no preservatives and I used all organic ingredients. Thank you for an amazing recipe, wish I’d have had this all those years my children were growing up and living on chicken nuggets! 🙂
Libby says
This is delicious! It’s like Chili’s Honey Mustard meets Chick fil a sauce…better than the stuff at CFA, that’s for sure. Thanks for the recipe!!
Catherine says
I made this for our homemade fried chicken sandwiches. I followed the recipe to a T and then refrigerated it for a couple of hours. I used Kewpie mayo and fresh squeezed lemon juice. This was so spot on for Chic fil A sauce!! TIP: Use hickory smoked BBQ sauce. It is the best for this recipe. I saw it posted on another website. It won’t disappoint. =)
Laura says
Great base recipe! Mine came out a little too mustardy, so I just added an additional bit of honey, BBQ sauce, and mayo. Perfect!
leroy says
is sweet baby rays ok to use?
thank you
Corey says
Yep! I hope you love the recipe Leroy
Lynne says
Thank you for creating and sharing this recipe. My husband and I fell in love with Chick Fil-A while on vacation and were sad to discover this chain is not available where we live in Canada. This sauce is spot-on and helps satisfy those Chick Fil-A cravings. 🙂
Mark Leingang says
My family would drink this sauce if I let them! We use it on everything, chicken, burgers, country sausage, dipping veggies, all good! The color may not be exact, but there’s no telling the difference. Thank you!
Mike says
It is delicious. I substituted Yellow mustard , for gulden’s Honey mustard. O so good!!!
Merri says
Tastes just like the sauce but better ingredients! And I buy the Bare Naked brand of breaded chicken nuggets and fillets (which also copycats their chicken!). My only negative is that the sauce was very runny. I even added more mayo to thicken it and that didn’t help. But I didn’t want to add anymore because I didn’t want to drown out the yummy flavor. Any suggestions to thicken it?
Ellie says
Taste’s exactly like Chick-Fil-A Sauce! I had it with chicken tenders. Loved it!!!
Corey says
So happy you loved it Ellie!
Andrew says
What’s up with the honey????? I only used 1/8 cup because I was skeptical to begin with, and it tasted of honey in an excessive fashion. I doubled the batch minus the honey and it still tasted distinctly of honey. Not at all like chic-fil-a.
Teena Morrissey says
So good! My husband swiped up the last bits and then licked his fingers. I said I thought it would be good on burgers and he told me it was so good it could go on anything.
Because I can’t help myself, I added a few shakes of Sunrise Cowgirl’s Coffee Rub. But the flavor was amazing even before my secret ingredient.
Bogdan Ababii says
I love this, it tastes exactly like chick fil a sauce, this is great, thanks.
Nadia Hurtz says
Could I just use honey mustard instead of honey and mustard. If so how much should I use.
Corey says
I have only made and tested the recipe as written, so I don’t know how close that will taste to Chick Fil A Sauce, but I’m sure that would also be yummy
Courtney McGrale says
Delicious and the recipe comes together so easily!