Make our McDonald’s Big Mac and Special Sauce Copycat Recipes at home tonight for your family. With our Secret Restaurant Recipe for the REAL special sauce your Big Mac will taste just like McDonalds’.
McDonald’s Big Mac and Special Sauce Copycat Recipes
With the Big Mac it’s all about the special sauce.
It’s that special sauce that sets it apart from other burgers.
Without the sauce it’s just any ol’ double-decker burger.
Get the sauce right and pretty much any burger will taste like a Big Mac.
There has been much discussion on the web and many, many recipes attempts for the secret sauce. Many people claim it is just Thousand Island. While in the broad sense of the term this is true (The definition of 1000 Island is – in a few words – tartar sauce with tomato sauce) there is no store bought 1000 Island that tastes quite right. There is something else in there.
That “something else” is what has been debated so heatedly on the web. And to tell the truth I hope that this post generates some discussion.
Below is the recipe that I feel comes closest to the taste of McDonald’s Secret Sauce.
McDonald’s Big Mac and Special Sauce Copycat Recipes
Big Mac Special Sauce
Ingredients
1/2 cup mayonnaise
2 tablespoons French dressing (this is the key — tomato based but not ketchup)
4 teaspoons sweet pickle relish
1 tablespoon finely minced white onion
1 teaspoon white vinegar
1 teaspoon sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt
McDonald’s Big Mac
Ingredients
1 regular sized sesame seed bun
1 regular sized plain bun
2 previously frozen regular beef patties
2 tablespoons Big Mac sauce
2-teaspoons reconstituted onions
1 slice real American cheese
2 hamburger pickle slices
1/4 Cup -shredded iceberg lettuce
Directions
1. Discard the crown half of the regular bun, retaining the heel.
2. Toast all the buns
3. Cook the two-all-beef-patties just like the regular burgers.
4. After the bun parts are toasted, put 1 tablespoon of “Mac sauce” on each of the
heels (toasted side.)
5. Add 1/8 cup shredded lettuce to each.
6. On the true bottom bun, place one thin slice of American cheese on top of the lettuce.
7. On the extra “heel”, the middle bun, place two pickle slices on top of the
lettuce.
8. Place the patties one at a time on both prepared buns. Stack the middle bun on top of the bottom bun, and put the crown on top.
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Comments on McDonald’s Big Mac and Special Sauce Copycat Recipes
It would be nice to print the recipe without all the print on the left. That uses a lot of extra ink. I worked at McD;s in the 70′s. I hope this is a good one. thanks!
Virginia,
Thank you for the question and your interest in our little blog.
I know what you mean. Ink is expensive.
That’s why I don’t own a printer.
(Actually I work days at a commercial printer and get what little I need printed for free.)
Naturally, I know not everyone has that luxury.
I’m sorry, but because of this I don’t know exactly how to solve the problem short of making up “print view” pages. I will look into this and see if there is a workable solution. But none of use are true programmers. It’s gonna have to be pretty easy.
I do know that there is sometimes a way to choose just what you want to print on a page. I know because I have messed up before and printed ONLY the left bar. Not sure how this works but it is something you might consider.
Also, a “workaround” I sometimes use (even though I get my printing free, I don’t always want everything on the page) is to copy and paste the part you want (the recipe) to a Notepad, Wordpad, Word or Text Page and then just print that. A couple more steps, but it saves money.
I hope this helps.
Thanks again,
Mark