Chick-fil-A sauce is the BEST dipping sauce! This copycat recipe is spot on and perfect for dipping nuggets, fries, or topping burgers and sandwiches!

Chick-fil-A is one of the largest fast food chains in the United States, and their recipes all are highly coveted. My favorite item at Chick-fil-A is their Chick-fil-A sauce and waffle fries; it’s the perfect combination. Use this sauce to dip chicken strips, french fries, asparagus fries, air fryer fried pickles, or curly fries; or spread it on top of an air fryer hamburger! You just can’t go wrong with this delicious sauce!

There are tons of copycat recipes out there for this sauce, but I found putting the basic ingredients together, and then tweaking them a bit to produce the most authentic copycat Chick-fil-A sauce. The best part is, it’s likely you already have all the ingredients in your fridge or pantry! I have already shared some amazing copycat sauces with y’all such as ZAX SAUCE and OUTBACK BLOOM SAUCE AND ONION PETALS!
How to make Chick-fil-A Sauce:
**scroll down for full ingredients list and printable directions**
- Get all the ingredients together – Mayo, honey, mustard, BBQ sauce, and lemon juice – that’s it (scroll down for exact measurements)

- Whisk everything in a bowl until completely combined and there are no clumps. Make sure to scrape the bottom and sides to incorporate all the honey.
- Refrigerate for at least 1 hour (even better over night) to thicken the Chick-fil-A Sauce, and let all the ingredients meld together.
- Serve with your favorite dippers such as french fries, air fryer green bean fries, Zesty Chicken Tenders, or Walnut Honey Mustard Chicken Strips.

How to store Chick-fil-A Sauce:
- Pour sauce into a mason jar or salad dressing dressing bottle where the top can be sealed. Keep in refrigerator.
- For the freshest tasting sauce, use within 14 days of making.
How to lighten up Chick-fil-A Sauce:
While this sauce is delicious, it is not diet friendly. To decrease calories and fat, replace whole fat mayonnaise for low fat mayonnaise and you won’t be able to taste a difference. This will cut the calories in half (37 calories instead of 76 calories) and reduce the fat content drastically (2g fat compared to 7g fat).

If you like COPYCAT RECIPES as much as I do, you might be interested in these:
- Copycat Big Mac Sauce – perfect for burgers or dipping!
- Copycat Zaxby’s Sauce
- Copycat Outback Bloom Sauce and Bloomin’ Onion Petals
- Copycat Big Mac Salad
- Copycat Taco Bell Mexican Pizzas
- Arby’s Curly Fries (Copycat)
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Chick-fil-A sauce is the BEST dipping sauce! This copycat recipe is spot on and perfect for dipping nuggets, fries, or topping burgers and sandwiches!
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise (regular or low fat)
- 2 TBS honey
- 1 TBS BBQ Sauce (smokey variety, not sweet)
- 2 tsp yellow mustard
- 1 tsp lemon juice
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In a bowl, add all ingredients. Whisk for at least 60 seconds or until everything is completely combined. Scrape sides and bottom to make sure honey is incorporated.
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Refrigerate at least 60 minutes, however the longer the better.
Recipe Video
- For the freshest tasting sauce, use within 14 days of making.
- Makes about 12 Tablespoons of sauce.
- Nutritional information for 1 TBS/serving: 76 calories, 7g fat, 4g carbohydrates.
- For low fat mayonnaise per serving: 37 calories, 2g fat, 4 g carbohydrates.
Alicia says
This CFA sauce came out SPOT ON! I couldn’t believe it! I always ask for 10 sides of CFA sauce when I go through the drive-through for my fries and chicken nuggets, but now I can use this at home! Have you seen the new nuggets that costco sells that are a perfect dupe for CFA nuggets? I am going to buy those again and then mix with this sauce! SOOOOOOO GOOD! THANK YOU!
April says
Chick-Fil-A has the BEST sauce. I love this homemade version!
Noelle Simpson says
My favorite sauce!! yay! It taste just like it, saving to make again soon!
Jacque Hastert says
This is my favorite dipping sauce! I can’t wait to whisk this together and start dipping some nuggets!
Claudio says
This is a wonderful tasting sauce. It’s hard for me to believe I never tried it until a couple of years ago. Now I’m hooked. Walmart sells a chicken dipping sauce which is just like the original sauce. Thank you for sharing your recipe.
Allyson says
I have tried that one and it is tasty! It is SO CHEAP to make it yourself at home though, especially without all the added preservatives!
Allyson says
You are so welcome! It’s addictive for sure!
Catalina says
It’s one of my favorite sauces! It’s so great to make it at home!
Cathy says
YUM! This sauce is our favorite!
Beti | easyweeknightrecipes says
YUM! This sauce is amazing!! We all loved it!
katerina @ diethood.com says
This sauce is fantastic!! I can’t wait to try it!
Beth says
This looks so delicious! My daughter and her boyfriend love this sauce! Can’t wait to show them this recipe! So excited!
Natasha says
This is a wonderful/dip sauce! I’m never buying store-bought again, this recipe is healthier and more delicious!
Sandra says
I’m definitely making this again! It is so good!
audrey says
I am so excited to try this with the arby fries on Saturday!