Copycat Chick-fil-A Sauce

Chick-fil-a sauce is sweet, tangy and smoky. It has a rich yellowy orange hue and darkens as it sits open.

Most of the ingredients found on a packet of chick-fil-a sauce are found in three major sauces;

BBQ Sauce– gives a richer hue to the yellow mustard and mayo and is what gives the sauce it’s smoky flavor.

Yellow Mustard– is the tanging agent and a little goes a long way.

Mayo- is the creamy ingredient to make this sauce come together nicely and since it has sugar the sauce is set from any additional sweeteners.

Chick-fil-A is a fast food restaurant mainly known for it’s fried chicken.  Many menu items revolve around deep fried chicken so fries, nuggets or chicken sandwiches pair beautifully with this dipping sauce.

I’m a user of Sweet Baby Ray’s BBQ sauce, because I’m likely to buy it in bulk and it lasts me a while!

My original recipe was equivalent to one little packet of Chick-fil-A sauce. To serve 4 or more servings simply go by these list of ingredients:

• 1/2 cup mayo
• 1 tsp yellow mustard
• 1/4 cup bbq sauce

The original Chicken Sandwich from Chick-fil-A uses breaded Chicken breasts. However, thighs or tenders are cuts that can be used for making breaded chicken patties. On the hand, grocery-store breaded chicken can be a huge shortcut in making sandwiches, but it can be a costly option. Furthermore, If I buy breaded chicken there’s usually two kinds I buy in replicating the Chick-fil-A sandwiches. The ones pictured were from a bulk box of chicken fritters and a freezer bag of breaded chicken breasts from Aldi is also another good find.

Making your own chicken breading from scratch is easy. Here is a great recipe to use and since a Bisquick mix has leavening in the mix the chicken breading gets fluffy and crisp.

HOMEMADE BREADING RECIPE:

• 2 cups Bisquick mix
• 1 tsp paprika, garlic powder, onion powder, salt and ground black pepper
• dash of cayenne pepper (opt)
• milk or buttermilk for dipping chicken breasts before breading
• 2 chicken breasts

Directions:

1. Cut each chicken breast in half lengthwise then in half crosswise to get 4 pieces of chicken out of each breast. Toss Bisquick and spices into a zip-loc bag. Dip chicken pieces in milk then the breading and fry on each side until cooked thoroughly.

The waffle fries pictured were from the freezer section of Walmart but many other major grocery stores should carry waffle fries in the freezer section that you can make at home. This is very price efficient as the cost of a single order of fries can range from around $3 and a bag of waffle fries from Walmart cost around $2.

Dill pickle chips are the kind served in Chick-fil-A sandwiches so any kind of sliced dill pickle chips would work best. Try to avoid super sweet pickle chips like the bread and butter chips as those can be too sweet.