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My fry sauce recipe is super easy and makes a tangy, creamy, perfectly sweet sauce that is incredible with fries, burgers, and more!
I used to order delivery from a local burger place whose fries always came with fry sauce (I loved the sauce!). One night, they forgot the sauce, and I was so bummed. From that night on, I was determined to make my own so I would never be out of fry sauce again!
This is our family’s best fry sauce recipe, which we love with fries (obviously), but also chicken nuggets, fish sticks, roasted veggies, and more! For more dipping sauces, try our spicy mayo, burger sauce, and creamy honey mustard.
Key Ingredients
- Mayonnaise: This is the base, so use a good-quality mayo or make your own mayo. For a vegan option, here’s our recipe for vegan mayo!
- Ketchup: This turns our sauce pink and starts to turn it into fry sauce. I prefer slightly less sweet ketchup, but use what you love. We also have a recipe for homemade ketchup if you are interested.
- Vinegar: I love a little white vinegar (distilled). White wine vinegar would work, too.
- Hot Sauce: You can add as many dashes as you like. I really love using a vinegary hot sauce like Crystal.
- Worcestershire: This gives the sauce a little backbone and just makes it taste better.
- Pickle Juice: We say it is optional in our recipe below, but we always add it (we love dill pickles in our home).
Find the full recipe with measurements below.
How to Make Fry Sauce
Tip 1: Make the base. Pretty much every fry sauce begins with good old mayonnaise and ketchup. The ketchup gives it that classic sweet, tangy pink color we all know and love.
Tip 2: Making it better with vinegar and heat. What really makes our sauce taste amazing is balancing the mayonnaise and ketchup with a handful of tangy ingredients like vinegar, hot sauce, and pickle juice. Then, for a bit of extra richness, we love Worcestershire in there, too. These tangy ingredients are what make this sauce totally irresistible. We can not stop dipping!
Serving Suggestions
Some of our favorite dishes to serve with fry sauce are below:
Easy Fry Sauce
Our fry sauce perfectly balances tangy, creamy, and sweet. It’s perfect for dipping French fries and is delicious on a burger. It’s easy, and I bet you already have everything in your kitchen.
Feel free to increase the ketchup or add more ingredients, such as spices or dill pickle juice (Adam always adds a little pickle juice to the sauce when he makes it).
To take the sauce up a notch, try making it with homemade mayonnaise and homemade ketchup. If you are egg-free or vegan, swap traditional mayonnaise with our homemade vegan mayonnaise.
Makes 3/4 cup
You Will Need
1/2 cup mayonnaise, try homemade mayonnaise (120 g)
1/4 cup ketchup, try homemade ketchup (60 g)
1 tablespoon distilled vinegar
3 to 6 dashes hot sauce, like Crystal
3 to 4 dashes Worcestershire sauce
Salt, to taste
Dash dill pickle juice, optional
Directions
1Whisk together the mayonnaise, ketchup, vinegar, hot sauce, Worcestershire sauce, and pickle juice until smooth. Taste, and then season with salt.
2Store fry sauce in an airtight container, in the refrigerator, for up to one week.
Adam and Joanne’s Tips
- Vegan fry sauce: Substitute the mayonnaise for vegan mayo, leave out the Worcestershire sauce, and make sure that all other ingredients are listed as vegan.
- The nutrition facts provided below are estimates.
Nutrition Per Serving
Serving Size
1 tablespoon
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Calories
69
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Total Fat
6.9g
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Saturated Fat
1.1g
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Cholesterol
3.9mg
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Sodium
132.8mg
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Carbohydrate
1.7g
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Dietary Fiber
0g
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Total Sugars
1.4g
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Protein
0.1g
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