If you think you may end up with leftovers or extra burgers, keep the ingredients separate and have everyone assemble their Big Mac at the table. Try serving your Big Mac with In ‘n Out Animal-Style Fries, Healthy Air Fryer Sweet Potato Fries or Instant Pot Potato Salad. Blend everything until it’s well combined then enjoy!Īside from the most popular choice – crispy French fries – there are plenty of things you can serve on the side. It’s super easy to make – all you have to do is mix together some low-fat mayo, ketchup, finely-minced onion, pickle relish, white wine vinegar and salt and pepper in a bowl. My version is a bit lower in fat and you can reduce the sugar by using sugar-free ketchup. The special sauce at McDonald’s is loaded with sugar and fat.
White wine vinegar – regular vinegar is also fine or you can leave it out altogether. Relish – dill pickle relish or sweet relish would both work. Ketchup – regular or sugar-free ketchup is best. Light mayo – you can use regular mayo, it will just increase the calorie count. Iceberg lettuce – opt for healthier options like chopped kale, baby spinach or arugula. White onion – yellow onion has a similar flavour. Dill pickles – or any other pickle variety you want. Cheese slices – use pepper jack cheese for an added kick or a lower fat option like Provolone or Swiss. Extra-lean ground beef – ground chicken or ground turkey are lower-calorie options, or you can use a black bean burger for a vegan option. Sesame seed hamburger buns – use a whole wheat bun or a lettuce wrap instead. Add a bit of freshly ground black pepper, if needed.This Big Mac recipe tastes just like your favourite McDonald’s burger with juicy hamburger patties, sesame seed buns and secret sauce. See the brown liquid? That’s a dash of Worcestershire sauce.Īnd that red liquid? Hot sauce! Stir it all together. And now that you ask, I still don’t think I’m over it.)Īdd about a generous teaspoon of chopped sweet pickles or sweet pickle relish. (Sweet pickles! Speaking of…does anyone remember the “Sweet Pickles” commercials from the 1980s? ( Here it is!) I was TOTALLY bummed when a busload of characters in a small green bus didn’t arrive at my house along with my books. If you don’t have dill relish in the house, chop up three dill slices. So I chop up about three bread and butter pickles. Ketchup! Ketchup! Ketchup! For me, the ketchup transforms the sauce. Use whatever mayo you love–even Miracle Whip*. I still think my burger sauce is pretty special. Boo! Turns out, mayonnaise and mustard make up the special sauce. It seems, however, that my sauce wasn’t a copy of the special sauce you’d find on a Big Mac. The combo makes a rich, sweet sauce that I love. Since I don’t keep thousand island dressing in the house, I swapped it for ketchup. Over the years all the “copycat” recipes I saw mixed mayonnaise with thousand island dressing. Let me say that again: there’s no ketchup or tomatoes, in special sauce. McDonald’s special sauce contains no ketchup. 
Before writing up my recipe, I did a quick search for special sauce. The other night, as Greg cooked burgers on the grill, I whipped up a batch of “special sauce”, snapping pictures for you as I went along.
On McDonald’s site, they refer to it as “Big Mac Sauce.” My world just flipped upside down.
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I thought I knew how to make a mock “special sauce*” at home–yes that special sauce sauce made famous by McDonald’s Big Macs.
It seems I’ve lied to myself for several years.
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