Jack in the Box Grilled Chicken Sandwich Recipe

Jack in the Box's Grilled Chicken Sandwich is a grilled chicken fillet with lettuce, tomato and the chain's Good Good Sauce on toasted sourdough, at 500 calories. This copy halves two chicken breasts into thin cutlets, marinates them for half an hour, grills them four to five minutes a side and builds four sandwiches with a sweet, tangy mayonnaise sauce.

Does Jack in the Box have a grilled chicken sandwich?

Yes. The chain's menu, as listed on DoorDash on 2 October 2026, has a Grilled Chicken Sandwich: a grilled chicken fillet with lettuce, tomatoes and Good Good Sauce on toasted sourdough bread, 500 calories. The copy below comes to about 550 by USDA figures. The same listing has grilled chicken in the Jack Wraps, in a teriyaki bowl and on two salads.

Jack in the Box does not publish what is in the Good Good Sauce. Tasting Table describes it as tangy, spicy and mildly sweet, and writes that it is believed to be made from mayonnaise, honey, vinegar, hot sauce, brown sugar and spices such as garlic powder. The sauce in the card is built from that list, in this site's own amounts.

This is a reconstruction from those descriptions, and MakeFoodLovely is not connected with Jack in the Box.

Recipe

Jack in the Box Grilled Chicken Sandwich

A reconstruction of Jack in the Box's Grilled Chicken Sandwich — grilled chicken breast with lettuce, tomato and a sweet, tangy mayonnaise sauce on toasted sourdough. Four sandwiches.

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Prep

15 min

Cook

12 min

Total

57 min

Serves

4

Cuisine

American

Ingredients

• For the chicken:
• 1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breast
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
• For the sauce:
• 1/4 cup mayonnaise
• 2 teaspoons honey
• 1 teaspoon packed brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
• 1 teaspoon hot sauce
• 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
• For the sandwiches:
• 12 ounces sourdough bread (8 slices)
• 1 tablespoon softened butter
• 4 leaves green leaf lettuce
• 1 large tomato (cut into 8 slices)

Instructions

1. Halve each of the two chicken breasts horizontally into two thin cutlets. Mix the oil, the lemon juice, 1/2 teaspoon of garlic powder, the paprika, the salt and the pepper, turn the cutlets in it and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
2. Stir the mayonnaise, honey, brown sugar, vinegar, hot sauce and 1/4 teaspoon of garlic powder together until the sugar has dissolved.
3. Heat a grill or a grill pan over medium-high heat and oil it. Grill the cutlets for 4 to 5 minutes a side, until they have dark grill marks and have reached 165°F. Let them rest for 3 minutes.
4. Butter one side of each slice of bread and toast the buttered sides on the grill or in a skillet for 1 to 2 minutes, until golden.
5. Spread the sauce on the untoasted sides. Build each sandwich with a cutlet, a lettuce leaf and two slices of tomato, toasted sides out.

Nutrition

Calories:

550

Calculated from the ingredient quantities above using the USDA FoodData Central database, then divided by the number of servings. It is an estimate and will vary with the exact products you use.

Jack in the Box chicken sandwiches, side by side

The same listing describes four full-size chicken sandwiches.

Sandwich	Chicken	With	Bread	Calories
Grilled Chicken Sandwich	grilled fillet	lettuce, tomato, Good Good Sauce	sourdough	500
Jack's Spicy Chicken	spicy crispy fillet	lettuce, tomato, mayo	bakery bun	690
Cluck Sandwich	crispy fillet	pickles, Good Good Sauce	brioche	710
Homestyle Ranch Chicken Club	crispy fillet	Swiss-style cheese, bacon, lettuce, tomato, ranch	brioche bun	790

The crispy one with pickles has its own page here, the Cluck Sandwich.

Thin cutlets

A whole chicken breast is thick at one end and thin at the other, and on a grill the thin end dries out before the thick end is done. Halved horizontally, each piece is about half an inch thick all over, cooks in under ten minutes and fits the bread.

Thirty minutes in the marinade is enough. Lemon juice left on chicken for hours turns the surface soft and chalky.

Sourdough, toasted on one side

Only the outsides are toasted. The soft inner side takes the sauce, and the crisp outer side keeps the sandwich firm in the hand. Slices from a sandwich loaf are the right size; slices from a large round loaf are cut in half.

Spicy, or with cheese and bacon

• Spicy: double the hot sauce and add pickled jalapeño slices. The listing's spicy wraps come with jalapeños and a Spicy Good Good sauce.
• With cheese and bacon: a slice of Swiss and two slices of bacon take it toward the club.

Grilled chicken from the same chain in a pita, with onions and cheddar, is the Chicken Fajita Pita. A breaded chicken sandwich from another chain is the Burger King chicken sandwich.