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Canes sauce is known for its crazy good flavor profile. Dip your chicken fingers, potato chips, and even fries.
Have you ever been to Raising Cane’s? It is a chain fast food restaurant that only serves chicken fingers. We have one in Fort Collins, and were a little skeptical at first, but it has quickly become one of our favorite places.
It is not your traditional fast food chain, that is for sure! They make everything fresh to order, and use real, quality, good pieces of chicken. They are famous for their Cane’s Sauce. It is the only dipping sauce that they offer, and it is just that good, they don’t need to offer anything else.
We absolutely love the Canes sauce, and always need a couple extra when we go. I had to find a way to make it at home, so we could have it more often. It took a few tries to figure out exactly how to make canes sauce, but it is actually super easy. Just mix a few staple ingredients together, let it sit for awhile for all the flavors to blend together, and you are good to go! For a quick weeknight meal you can serve it with homemade chicken tenders or grilled chicken skewers.
What Is Canes Sauce
Raising Cane’s Sauce is a ketchup and mayo based sauce that is spiced up with a few other spices that make it special. From what I have learned it is made slightly different at different areas of the country. In the South it is supposedly a spicier version that is made with creole seasoning. Here in Colorado it isn’t spicy, but has the kick from pepper in the background. So you can use this as a base and then add some spice if you are used to it that way.
Can You Buy Cane’s Sauce
Unfortunately no, they do not sell it by the bottle. When you are at the restaurant, you can order extra cups of the sauce, but nothing that will last or serve very many.
Serving Suggestions
Canes sauce has quickly become a staple at our house. It is good on so much more than just chicken tenders.
- Great for topping burgers
- Dip your fries, sweet potato fries, and tots
- As a dip for chips or veggies
- Use in place of mayo on sandwiches
What Does Cane’s Sauce Taste Like?
It is similar to a fry sauce but it has the black pepper, Worcestershire and garlic powder in there that give it more flavor. It is tangy with a little bit of a kick. Fry sauce is really just ketchup and mayo, so this is a little different, but very similar.
Unfortunately Raising Cane’s restaurants are not all over the place, so not everyone can experience it. But trust me, try this copycat version for Canes Sauce and you will understand what all the hype is about.
What’s In Cane’s Sauce
Just 5 simple ingredients make up the infamous dipping sauce.
- Mayo (full fat is best, but you can use whatever you have)
- Ketchup
- Garlic Powder
- Worcestershire Sauce
- Black Pepper
- Creole Seasoning
The creole seasoning is a little bit controversial. A lot of people say it is in there, some people say they make the sauce differently in different parts of the country, and Cane’s isn’t offering up their original recipe. So if you like it, add just a pinch to the recipe.
How to Make Cane’s Sauce
- In a small bowl add all of the ingredients.
- Whisk until it is well blended.
Seriously, that is it. You can’t get a much easier recipe. The key is really to let it sit in the fridge for a few hours to let the flavors come together. This makes all the difference between a boring sauce and the Cane’s sauce you will fall in love with.
The longer this sits in the fridge the better it gets. You need a minimum of 2 hours for the flavors to start to come together, but if you can let it sit for 24 hours, that is even better!
More Copycat Recipes You Will Love
- Minestrone Soup
- Pasta Milano
- Olive Garden Breadsticks
- Pokey Sticks
- Idaho Nachos
- Cheddar Bay Biscuits
- Pesto Cavatappi
Canes Sauce Recipe
Video
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup Mayo
- ¼ cup ketchup
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
- Pinch Creole Seasoning, optional
Instructions
- Combine all of the ingredients in a small bowl. Mix until well combined.3/4 cup Mayo, ¼ cup ketchup, 1 teaspoon garlic powder, 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce, ½ teaspoon black pepper, Pinch Creole Seasoning
- Let sit in the fridge for at least 2 hours before serving.
- Store leftovers in an airtight container for up to 2 weeks.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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I would dip so many things in this!!
Never heard of this place but I’m sure this is Comeback or Fry sauce. Many recipes for it.
Definitely not fry sauce
Unless Cane’s is older than 70 years and has been making this sauce for that long, this is Arctic Circle Fry Sauce. Here’s a link to one article but another one I read recently, said it was invented by some BYU college students working at a fast food restaurant in Provo, Utah decades ago. We Utahns are just happy everyone else is finding out how good this sauce is so when we travel outside of Utah we have a small chance of finding an eatery that serves it with their fries! I know I introduced it to a couple of restaurant owners in Western Australia almost 40 years ago. Interesting trivia: for the 2002 Olympics, held in Utah, one of the commemorative pins was of fry sauce (another pin – green Jell-o)
Fry sauce is just mayo and ketchup. I went to BYU and worked at Artic Circle, not even close to Canes Sauce.
Interesting. The founder of Canes worked on a crab boat in Alaska for a few yrs to save up money to open his first restaurant in Baton Rouge. I’d bet the Arctic fry sauce was the inspiration behind canes sauce.
Whoopsie Forgot the link:
https://www.heraldextra.com/entertainment/dining/why-other-states-need-to-adopt-fry-sauce/article_b25212a3-b899-577d-8130-73d1a8a3ff90.html
I added 1/2 tsp white vinegar, Old Bay’s blackening seasoning and about 1/4 tsp of Frank’s red sauce. Perfection!
I followed the recipe exactly, but the sauce is still a bit runny. What ingredients could be added to thicken it just like the pictures? Could it be the brand of mayo or ketchup uaed?
It could be. If you use a light or fat free mayo they are always thinner. Ketchup also varies slightly by brand. I am not sure what you could add to thicken it that wouldn’t change the flavor. You could try more mayo, but then the spices wouldn’t be the same. Sorry
The first ingredient I tasted was apple cider vinegar, then mayo and ketchup. And I was thinking chili powder, but maybe it was smoked paprika
I was looking for the canes sauce for a while! Thanks for sharing!
This sounds fantastically flavorful! And I love sauces that I can just whisk together.
I make this all the time and it’s always delicious!