Garlic Parmesan Wing Sauce 🍗

Ingredient Substitutions

Here are some simple ingredient substitutions you can use for this flavor-packed sauce:

• Sour cream: You can use full-fat Greek yogurt.
• Parmesan: Use pecorino Romano or shredded Asiago. We need big flavors!
• Apple cider vinegar: Use red wine or white wine vinegar but avoid balsamic or rice wine vinegar as they don’t play well with this recipe.
• Lemon juice: You could use lime juice, but the flavor will be slightly different. Avoid any jarred or bottled lemon juice as it has too much acid – natural flavor is better.
• Red pepper flakes: I love adding Aleppo pepper flakes (they are slightly fruity in flavor) or really punching up the heat with some cayenne pepper. This garlic parmesan sauce has some kick in the spice department, so if you don’t love spicy food, then drop the red pepper flakes to ¼ teaspoons or try some chili powder or smoked paprika instead.
• Dried oregano: Use store-bought Italian seasoning.
• Dried parsley: Try some fresh parsley, or dried chives or dill (or both!)
• Granulated garlic: I love adding in 3 garlic cloves of my roasted garlic that has been mashed up before adding. Just mix it in and enjoy. Besides that, you can also add one teaspoon garlic powder. I would avoid raw fresh garlic unless you love that overpowering flavor.

Additional Ingredients

Want to take your garlic parmesan dipping sauce to the next level? Here are a few tasty additions that pair perfectly with the main ingredients:

• Fresh herbs: If you don’t want to use the dried herbs, add fresh oregano and parsley (just triple the amounts). I also love adding in some fresh chives, dill, and black pepper. So good.
• Lemon zest: If you have a lemon hanging out (you should from the fresh lemon juice!), go ahead and zest the skin. Add this directly to the wing sauce. The lemon punches up the flavor a lot.

Note: These ingredients are optional, you can use them to enhance the flavor of the creamy garlic wing sauce.