Homemade Chick-fil-A Sauce
Updated Jan 08, 2026
Make your own Chick-Fil-A Sauce with just four simple ingredients that you probably already have at home. This easy copycat recipes tastes JUST like the real thing!
Making your own Chick-Fil-A sauce
Ever find yourself craving chick fil a sauce at home? This recipe is made with just 4 ingredients and tastes just like the real thing!
Chick fil a sauce is delicious on burgers, with fries, chicken nuggets, and more. It’s so easy to make yourself at home so that you never be without your favorite dip again!
⭐️Review⭐️
“Oh my gosh. This tastes just like Chick-fil-A sauce!! I only made a small batch at first because so many of these copycat recipes are good, but don’t come close to the original. This is the exception. Best copycat recipe I’ve ever found! Thank you!!!”
What is Chick-Fil-A sauce made of?
The full recipe and instructions can be found in the recipe card at the bottom of the post, but here are the ingredients that you will need to make your own CFA sauce at home.
- Mayonnaise: regular mayonnaise
- Bbq sauce: regular bbq sauce, not spicy
- Mustard: plain mustard
- Honey: just a little bit to sweeten
How to make homemade Chick-Fil-A sauce
Step 1: Whisk together the mayo, mustard, bbq sauce, and honey in a bowl and serve! It’s really that easy. No fancy ingredients. Probably all stuff that you already have on hand!
Recipe Tip
I have found that using a whisk results in the perfect creaminess and lets the mayo combine completely into the sauce. Sometimes a spoon won’t be able to mix it quite as well.
What to serve it with
- Chicken nuggets or plant based nuggets
- Air Fryer Tofu Nuggets
- Waffle fries
- Air Fryer Frozen French Fries
- Chickpea Nuggets
Whatever your style, this sauce is perfect for enjoying Chick-fil-A from the comfort of your kitchen!
Copycat Chick-Fil-A Sauce
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup mayo
- 1 teaspoon mustard
- 1 tablespoon barbecue sauce
- 1 tablespoon honey
Instructions
- Add all of the ingredients to a bowl and whisk well to combine.
- Serve with waffle fries or your favorite nuggets!
Looking for alternatives for the BBQ sauce as I’m allergic to tomatoes.
@Jennifer, there’s a brand called KC Natural that makes tomato free products and their BBQ sauce is very good.
I live in Central America and have been craving Chick Fil A for months. I can make good chicken but the sauce has been lacking. I made this tonight with my own chicken nuggets and it was amazing. I did add a few shakes of salt and pepper and a touch of vinegar since my BBQ sauce didn’t have much in it. I could close my eyes and see myself sitting with my mom back home at lunch.
I’m so glad this sauce was able to be what you were looking for!
Delicious! Tastes just like it!
How do you thicken it? It tastes just like chick fil a sauce but is so runny. It needs a thickener of some sort.
@Erin Alderson, You could use some flour or -if you have it- pectin.
My daughter thought it needed a tad bit more mustard. But good! I like mayo and bbq sauce mixed together for my french fries.
Good recipe. I added a bit of sriracha and it is perfect.
This is pretty good but, if you add a little lemon juice, a little vinegar, and garlic powder it tastes even more like chick-fil-a.
This is probably fairly accurate to the original. I was an employee of the inventor of the recipe, Hugh Fleming. He discovered it in the mid 1980’s in Spotsylvania VA. It was kind of discovered accidentally when sauces were inadvertently mixed together on a plate and someone dipped their nuggets in it. I am sure it was doctored after this, but as far as I know, it was sauces that we had on hand. Couldn’t keep the fresh stuff in stock. It was flying out the fridge pretty much from Day 1. Many years later, Mr. Fleming gave it to corporate, who packaged it and rolled it out to all Chick Fil A’s . The fresh stuff was even better though.
Made this before but this time didn’t have any mayo I substituted it with sour cream. It was just as good maybe even better! Used Kansas City BBQ sauce also…..
This recipe is very good. My husband said it’s even better than Chick Fil A sauce.