5 min Big Mac Sauce Recipe (Copycat) (2024)

The Big Mac sauce is a secret sauce made famous by Mc Donald's signature burger, the Big Mac.

🧅 Ingredients

I have to admit, for a few years I just used a thick version of the thousand island dressing in my burgers to mimic the Big Mac Sauce.

BUT, in the past years, I came upon a couple of recipes for the big mac sauce, such as the one foundin this book.

I also simply looked up the McDonald'swebsite with the Big Mac Sauce ingredients.

Here is what you will need to make this 5 minute big mac sauce.

• White Onion — (optional) White onion is milder and better suited. You can substitute this ingredient with onion powder too.
• Dill Pickle Relish (optional) — Not in the original recipe, but adds a lot of character to your sauce.
• Mayonnaise — I used homemade Mayonnaise.
• Tomato Ketchup
• Dijon Mustard
• Vinegar — Less intense, such as white vinegar.
• Black Pepper
• Salt

🔪 How to make the Big Mac Sauce?

To prepare the homemade Big Mac secret sauce is super easy. Here is an overview to help you start out.

You will find the full printable recipe with US and metric measurements further below.

Step 1

Chop onion and dill pickle fine.

(this step can be skipped if you don't want fresh chopped onion and pickle).

Step 2

Add to a bowl the mayonnaise, mustard, ketchup, vinegar, salt and black pepper.

Add chopped onion and dill to this.

Step 3

Combine all the ingredients to a smooth, well blended sauce.

💡 More Uses

Besides the obvious, a Big Mac burger Sauce, you get to use this sauce in other delicious ways too:

• A big mac salad as a dressing
• Chicken tenders as a dip
• Chicken nuggets as a dip
• Fish Sticks as a dip
• Tacos as a topping

🍱 Storing

You can double or triple the big mac sauce recipe to prepare a bigger batch if you like.

Store the freshly made sauce in your fridge in a simple glass jar or a salad dressing bottle for up to 5 days at most.

That way you will have the sauce on hand whenever you feel like it.

If you want to store your big Mac sauce for a longer period of time, use onion powder instead of chopped onions in your sauce because onions are perishable.

You can freeze your sauce in batches.

📕 What is the Big Mac Sauce?

The Big Mac Sauce is called the Special Sauce or Secret Sauce by MC Donald's.

I saw some people calling it the Magic Sauce. Yep, it's like a famed unicorn at this point!

The Big Mac Sauce Recipe is very similar to a few sauces out there but comes closest to the Thousand Island Dressing.

Which is a popular salad dressing made of mayonnaise, tomato ketchup, vinegar and finely chopped pickled cucumbers.

The sauce is creamy and tastes a bit tangy but well seasoned with a hint of tomato and mayo coming through.

McDonald's big mac sauce is only used on one burger, hence the name, the mighty Big Mac. That's why the sauce is so loved because it's so unique.

It alleviates the flavors of the burger with the two meat patties and the other ingredients. In fact, the special sauce isMcDonald's signature sauce!

Making the Big Mac the core product of the global chain.

Unfortunately, MC Donald's doesn't sell the sauce; however, they have placed the recipe under public domain (yay!) and numerous copycat versions exist.

👁️ More Sauces like this

• Yum Yum Sauce — for steaks or as a shrimp dipping sauce.
• Louie Dressing — for Shrimp or Crab Louie Salad.
• Sweet Onion Sandwich Sauce — Subway copycat.