Big Mac Recipe

The McDonald’s website touts the Big Mac as “A double layer of sear-sizzled 100% pure beef mingled with special sauce on a sesame seed bun and topped with melty American cheese, crisp lettuce, minced onions and tangy pickles.” I know we’ve all had one and loved it. Did you know you can create the same flavors at home? Yup…you can. We’ve got the recipe below and a video from McDonald’s executive chef Dan Coudreaut showing us how to make a Big Mac at home.

Here’s how to make a healthier version of McDonald’s Big Mac

***If you want to make it healthier, skip a little on authenticity. All that stuff from Kraft is full of bad stuff like High Fructose Corn Syrup, try to find healthier, organic alternatives.

Big Mac Special Sauce

Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup Kraft Miracle Whip
• 1/4 cup Hellmans mayonnaise
• 2 Tbsp Wishbone deluxe French salad dressing
• 1/2 Tablespoon Heinz sweet relish
• 2 teaspoons, heaping, Vlasic dill pickle relish
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1 teaspoon dried, minced onion
• 1 teaspoon white vinegar
• 1 teaspoon ketchup
• 1/8 teaspoon salt

How to Make the Big Mac Special Sauce:

1. Mix everything very well in a small container so it is unicolored.
2. Microwave for 25 seconds
3. Stir
4. Cover, and refrigerate at least 1 hour
5. Makes 1 cup of dressing

Big Mac Sandwhich

Ingredients:

• 1 regular sized sesame seed bun
• 1 regular sized plain bun
• 2 previously frozen regular beef patties (or you can get yourself some really good organic grass fed beef.
• 2 tablespoons Big Mac sauce
• 2 teaspoons reconstituted onions
• 1 slice real American cheese (or you can use cheddar since American cheese is not really cheese)
• 2 hamburger pickle slices
• 1/4 cup shredded iceberg lettuce

Cooking your Big Mac:

1. Throw out the top half of the regular bun.
2. Toast the bottom of the two buns first since you need another for the middle bun.
3. Cook the two-all-beef-patties just like the regular burgers.
4. When the buns are toasted, put 1 tablespoon of “Mac sauce” on each of the bottom buns on the toasted side.
5. Add 1/8 cup shredded lettuce to each bun.
6. On the true bottom bun, place one thin slice of cheese on top of the lettuce.
7. On the middle bun, add two pickle slices on top of the lettuce.
8. Toast the bottom part of the top bun.
9. When the meat is ready, put one each on the bottom buns.
10. Stack the middle bun on top of the bottom bun, and put the top bun on top.
11. Age the burger in wax paper

• Center the burger, right side up, on the waxed paper.
• Fold the “long” ends of the paper up over the top.
• Fold the two remaining ends underneath.
• Wrap tighlty.
• Let it ait for 6 minutes.
• Microwave, while wrapped for 15 seconds on high.