Subway Chipotle Southwest Sauce Copycat Recipe
A smoky mayonnaise built on the sauce from a tin of chipotles in adobo, not on chipotle powder. Six minutes.
Cooking Subway at home, and what its menu costs
The bread and the sauces are the whole brand, and both copy beautifully.
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The Subway recipes on this site
Not every menu item has a recipe here, and that is deliberate - We write a page when there is something genuinely worth saying about how to make the thing.
Subway Double Chocolate Chip Cookie Copycat Recipe
Thick, soft and deliberately under-baked so the middle stays molten. Twenty minutes, and the timing is the entire recipe.
Subway Italian Herbs and Cheese Bread Copycat Recipe
An enriched white dough baked in a shallow trough, finished with a herb and cheese blanket in the last four minutes. …
Subway Sweet Onion Sauce Copycat Recipe
A fat-free sweet-and-sour glaze thickened with cornflour. Ten minutes, and every version built on mayonnaise fails.
What Subway food actually tastes of
The bread is sweet and under-baked on purpose. Sugar in the dough, milk powder for softness, and a short bake that leaves the crust pale and flexible. A golden, crusty loaf is a good loaf and a bad copy.
Sweet Onion sauce has no fat in it at all. It is a fat-free sweet-and-sour glaze - sugar, vinegar, onion, a little mustard, thickened with cornflour. Cooks keep trying to build it on mayonnaise and it never works.
Chipotle Southwest is mayonnaise plus adobo, and the adobo is the point. Use the sauce from a tin of chipotles in adobo, not chipotle powder.
About Subway
Strip the marketing away and Subway is a bread company with a salad bar attached. The proteins are ordinary; the vegetables are the same vegetables you have at home. What people actually miss when they stop going are two things: the Italian Herbs and Cheese bread, and whichever sauce they always asked for.
Both are straightforward at home, and the bread in particular is one of the most satisfying copycat bakes there is. It is a soft, slightly sweet, very enriched white dough baked in a shallow trough so it keeps a flat bottom and a domed top, then finished with a herb-and-cheese blanket that toasts in the last four minutes. Nothing about it is difficult. It just needs a warm room and two hours you were going to spend anyway.
What Subway charges, from the menu we hold
22 priced options across 107 menu sections, as last recorded in United States. Prices move and vary by outlet, so treat these as a reference point rather than a quote.
Half the menu sits between $4.79 and $8.99. Here is the whole spread:
| Position | Item | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest priced item | $1.99 | |
| Middle of the menu | $8.49 | |
| Dearest priced item | $15.99 |
Subway changes its prices without telling you. We read this menu once a month and keep the reading – have the changes emailed to you, free, one click to stop.
Every reading we hold is on the Subway price history. The full list is on the Subway menu page, and the 4 items we have rebuilt at home are listed here.
What Subway charges in 11 countries
The same item, priced from each country’s own menu and converted to one currency so the columns can be read against each other. Subway sets prices per market, so a gap here is the chain’s pricing rather than an exchange rate artefact – and the widest gap on this list is Tuna Salad, which costs $7.89 in the dearest market and $1.99 in the cheapest.
| Item | 🇺🇸 USD | 🇬🇧 GBP | 🇦🇺 AUD | 🇨🇦 CAD | 🇮🇪 EUR | 🇳🇿 NZD | 🇸🇬 SGD | 🇵🇭 PHP | 🇭🇰 HKD | 🇲🇾 MYR | 🇹🇭 THB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $8.49 | $6.07 | $6.00 | $3.99 | — | $5.50 | $6.79 | $3.58 | $6.88 | $3.95 | $5.33 | |
| $8.49 | $3.69 | — | — | — | — | $7.03 | $3.58 | $4.59 | $3.02 | $5.33 | |
| — | $7.00 | — | $6.73 | $7.55 | — | — | $3.82 | $7.34 | $3.14 | $6.52 | |
| — | $5.28 | — | $4.20 | — | — | $4.84 | $2.62 | $6.50 | $1.78 | $3.55 | |
| — | $5.95 | — | $5.33 | $6.51 | — | — | $3.42 | — | $2.91 | $6.52 | |
| — | — | — | $3.99 | — | $5.89 | $7.81 | $3.82 | — | $3.08 | $6.52 | |
| $9.29 | — | — | $4.55 | — | — | $7.11 | $3.82 | $4.59 | — | $5.33 | |
| — | $6.20 | — | $3.85 | — | — | — | $3.58 | $6.31 | $2.78 | $3.84 | |
| — | $8.98 | — | — | — | — | $6.48 | $3.42 | $6.88 | $3.63 | — | |
| — | — | — | — | — | $5.61 | $8.90 | $5.01 | $8.03 | — | $5.33 | |
| — | — | $6.56 | — | — | $6.17 | $7.65 | $3.58 | $6.88 | — | — | |
| — | — | — | — | $6.04 | — | $7.89 | $1.99 | $7.01 | — | $4.02 |
Only items Subway prices in at least 5 of the markets we hold are listed, because a row with three figures in it is a gap rather than a comparison.
What Subway sells nearly everywhere
Ranked by how many of the markets in our price data carry the item with a published price. This is computed from the menu tables, so it reflects what the chain actually sells rather than what it advertises.
| Menu item | Markets priced | Recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Spicy Italian | 7 | - |
| Tuna | 6 | - |
| Italian B.M.T.® | 6 | - |
| Meatball Marinara | 6 | - |
| Roast Beef | 6 | - |
| Chicken Teriyaki | 5 | - |
| Tuna Salad | 5 | - |
| Chicken Teriyaki Salad | 5 | - |
| Chicken Teriyaki Wrap | 5 | - |
| Steak & Cheese | 5 | - |
| Veggie Patty | 4 | - |
| Ham | 4 | - |
Build your Subway order, see what it costs
Tick what you would actually order. The total runs as you go, and where we have built the item at home you will see both figures side by side.
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