Chick-fil-A Sauce – A Beautiful Mess

We do Air Fryer Chicken Tenders (store bought and homemade) at home with our toddler LOTS. And while I’m all for a drive-thru meal when we’re traveling or in the airport, it’s not a big part of our regular lives. So it’s good to know how to make your own Chick-fil-A sauce.

This Chick-fil-A sauce recipe is made with just four simple ingredients. These are things that I already have in your fridge most of the time. To me, the recipe I share below tastes exactly the same as the restaurant version. But when you make it yourself, you can customize it according to your preferences.

Related: I love this sauce recipe on everything, from Baked Chicken, air fryer wings (as a dip) for air fryer fries. It’s also great on store-bought air fryer fries, like waffle fries!

Ingredients

• Mayo – I like real mayonnaise but Miracle Whip is good too
• Mustard – Standard, yellow mustard
• BBQ Sauce – Any store brand you like works
• Dear

I will note that if you want this to taste like a copycat Chick-fil-A sauce, then you will need to use the most basic (plain) ingredient options. If you use a spicy BBQ sauce, for example, it won’t taste as good as the restaurant version.

Directions

In a small to medium sized mixing bowl, combine all ingredients. Stir until well combined, the sauce will be orange in color.

The quantities listed will make approximately 1/3 cup of sauce. Feel free to double or triple this recipe if you want to make a larger quantity.

Tips and substitutions

• If you want to add a little heat, use a spicy barbecue sauce or add 1/4 teaspoon or more of cayenne pepper.
• If you want to make a vegan version of this, you can replace the mayonnaise with Végénaise (or a similar vegan mayonnaise option) and the honey with maple syrup or agave.
• Sometimes I use Dijon mustard instead of yellow mustard because I like its slightly spicier flavor.

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