25 Easy Sauces for Chicken (2024)

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Turn your bland chicken into delicious chicken with these Sauces for Chicken Recipes. Enjoy these sauces for dipping or cooking your chicken in.

Best Sauces for Chicken:

There are many different sauces for chicken breast. These recipes are made with simple ingredients and will turn your bland chicken dish into a delicious dinner. We eat a lot of chicken and these sauces help change the flavor.

These sauce recipes can also be used for dipping sauce for your favorite cooked chicken into. They are full of flavor and easy to prepare. Turn your weeknight dinners into something fabulous with white wine sauce with fresh squeeze lemon juice.

These sauce recipes can also be used for chicken wings, fried chicken thighs, or chicken tenders. Impress your family with these easy sauce recipes.

Easy Homemade Sauces for Chicken:

If you are looking for a good sauce for chicken we have gathered 25 sauces to make. We love ranch dressing and use it a lot of dipping our fried chicken, but these sauces give you a variation to make.

1. Easy Homemade Alfredo Sauce:

Unlike traditional pasta sauce, Alfredo sauce is not made with any tomatoes. This is a creamy white sauce that is made with a combination of parmesan cheese, butter and heavy cream.

It’s best served over your favorite type of noodles and goes great with chicken or fish. It’s often used in Italian recipes and topped with black pepper.

2. Grilled Teriyaki Chicken:

Grilling season is upon us but if I’m being honest, I grill year round! The flavor is amazing and it keeps my kitchen clean. This grilled teriyaki sauce chicken is simply the best.

I love the combination of sweet and savory on chicken. It is so yummy. The grill gives it beautiful marks for the grill grates. It is all around a fabulous meal.

3. Crock Pot Lemon Chicken:

The fresh lemon and half and half combine with all of the seasonings for a really amazing cream sauce. This entire meal is so filling and delicious but light enough to enjoy anytime of the year.

4. Marry Me Chicken:

This Marry Me Chicken is a family favorite recipe. The chicken breast are cooked in a skillet and then seasoned and simmered in a sun dried tomato sauce. You will win over the hearts of your loved ones with this delicious recipe.

5. Chicken Dipping Sauce:

Chicken tender dipping sauce is must when we are having fried chicken strips, chicken fingers or chicken nuggets. This delicious sauce is cream, tangy, and sweet and made with simple pantry ingredients.

6. Hoisin Sauce Noodles with Chicken:

The sauce that is combined forms a sweet and savory flavor that is perfect mixed with the noodles and chicken. Adding in the colorful veggies to the dish gives it so much flavor.

7. Freddy’s Fry Sauce:

nailed it with this simple dipping sauce recipe. It only requires 5 ingredients that I already had. We keep this delicious dipping sauce stock in our fridge all the time.

8. In and Out Sauce:

Copycat In-N-Out Burger Spread is a simple sauce that can be used to top your burgers, for dipping your french fries or as a sandwich spread. You only need 4 ingredients and your probably already have them.

9. Yum Yum Sauce:

This Homemade Yum Yum Sauce is easy to make with simple ingredients. It is creamy, delicious and flavorful. We love making our own sauces from scratch so we can control the ingredients.

10. Chick-Fil-A Polynesian Sauce:

My kids love Chick-Fil-A fast food restaurant. Polynesian Sauce is one of our favorite dipping sauces when we go to Chick-Fil-A. It is so full of flavor and the perfect to dip our fries and chicken nuggets in it.

11. Creamy Mushroom Sauce:

Learn how to make this easy creamy mushroom sauce with a rich flavor everyone will enjoy. It is simple to prepare and pairs perfectly with many different dishes.

Your family will be impressed with this mushroom sauce. Once you see how easy it is to make from scratch, you will love to make it.

12. Skillet Honey Mustard Chicken:

This skillet chicken dinner is cooked in a delicious honey Dijon mustard sauce. It was simple to make and I had all the ingredients.

13. Baked Salsa Chicken:

This Healthy Chicken Salsa Recipe is a super easy chicken dinner recipe. Now I topped mine with cheese, but if you want it healthier then you can top with low fat cheese or cut the cheese in half.

All you need are a handful of ingredients and a little bit of effort and voila! You’ll have a dinner your family will ask for over and over again.

14. Homemade Enchilada Sauce:

We love making any kind of Mexican food at our house, including authentic Mexican food. Rather it be tacos, enchiladas, or a Mexican soup, these options are on a weekly rotation.

I am always trying to find ways to make ingredients at home and this Red Enchilada Sauce is no exception. I love that these ingredients are simple and I always seem to have them in my pantry.

15. Homemade Salsa:

This is our favorite Homemade Salsa Recipe and we make it all the time. It is easy enough to whip up for a snack and it is seriously so good. Since you only need a few ingredients, it is a breeze to make.

16. Brown Sugar Skillet Chicken:

I am so excited to share this amazing recipe for brown sugar chicken cooked in olive oil. This is the best chicken and you will not believe how simple it is.

17. Buffalo Sauce:

I love buffalo sauce and cook with it a lot. One day I didn’t have enough for what I was making and thought maybe I could make my own. The results? It turned out amazing and was really easy.

18. Italian Dressing Soy Sauce Marinade:

A few weeks ago, I dumped 2 ingredients together and it was delicious! You can grill it, bake it, or even throw it the crockpot and I think you will be surprised how full of flavor this chicken is!

19. Copycat Chick-Fil-A Sauce:

Everyone knows that chicken nuggets needs the perfect dipping sauce. You are going to love being able to enjoy this easy Copycat Chick Fil a Sauce recipe at home.

20. Easy Homemade BBQ Sauce Recipe:

It is a simple recipe you can throw on the stove while you do other things and you are left with a delicious homemade sauce that compliments beef, chicken, or anything else you want to smother it in.

21. Sesame Chicken:

Homemade Sesame Chicken is better that take out and simple to make. The chicken is fried to perfection and covered with a sweet and tangy sauce, then topped with sesame seeds.

22. Easy Skillet Orange Chicken Recipe:

This Orange Chicken Recipe is quick and easy when made in the skillet. The crispy chicken texture mixed with the sweet and tangy sauce makes this a family favorite. We love this meal for a quick dinner.

23. Skillet Bruschetta Chicken:

If you are tired of spaghetti and want something different, this chicken pasta recipe is amazing. Your family will go crazy over this one.

24. Balsamic Chicken Recipe:

This Balsamic chicken recipe is fast, has very few ingredients, and tastes amazing.

25. Homemade Tzatziki Sauce:

We are going to show you how to make the best Greek Tzatziki Sauce. You will never buy store bought again once you taste this. The flavor is amazing and it only takes a few simple ingredients to make this.

More Easy Chicken Recipes:

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• Best Crock Pot Chicken Recipes
• 10 ways to use leftover grilled chicken
• Quick and Easy Chicken and Pasta Recipes