When your burgers are done, melt a slice of American cheese on top. You are going to add sauce to the buttered/grilled bun, then pickles, chopped onion and shredded lettuce. Remember Wimpy? He’s a big fan of hamburgers, too! You don’t want the burger to look wimpy on your bun. I used a really lean ground beef, and they still shrunk. The burger patties need to be thin and pretty big in circumference. (Use the leftovers for garlic bread like we did!)īutter them and toast them in a hot skillet and set them aside while you do the rest. You will need sesame seed buns, like the song says … but remember, you need two bottoms and one top bun for each Big Mac. Now you are all ready to build your Big Macs! Let those flavors get a chance to get cozy with one another.

Mix it all together and refrigerate over night. Most called for vinegar, so I did a little taste testing, and I went with sweet relish, and in place of the vinegar, I used dill pickle juice. They all called for relish - some of them sweet relish, some of them dill relish, some of them both. Most of the recipes were pretty close to the same.

For Serving: sesame seed buns, butter, shredded lettuce, dill pickles, minced onion, American cheese.

For the Burgers: lean ground beef, salt & pepper.

For the Sauce: mayo, French Dressing, sweet relish, dill pickle juice, sugar, dried minced onion, ketchup, salt.

Ingredients in Copycat McDonald’s Big Mac: ” two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun!” It’s no secret that Taco Bell is my FAVORITE fast food of all the fast foods!ĬOPY CAT MCDONALD’S TARTAR SAUCE & FISH SANDWICH – Love the fish sandwiches at McDonald’s? It’s mostly about that tartar sauce! Now you can make them at home!įirst off - you need to make that “special sauce.” You know the one - if you were raised in the time of the McDonald’s jingle - there is no way you forgot it! Had I not made these, I would have for sure made Aunt Bee’s Recipes Cop圜at Taco Bell Enchiritos ! I came across a Big Mac that a fellow blogger had made, and I remembered my youngest son telling me he wanted me to try them sometime. I started looking on my Restaurant Copy Cats Pinterest Board as soon as I RSVP’d to the event. Make sure that you check out the other’s posts at the bottom of this one, underneath the recipe. What’s #FantasticalFoodFight ? It’s a group of bloggers that make recipes based on a monthly theme, and we all share them at the same time. When the theme for this month’s Fantastical Food Fight was announced, and I saw that it was Fast Food Copy Cats, I knew that I was in.

Now my twin babies will be 15 next week (insert sad face here) – and I am not ashamed to admit that I still hit the drive thru for McDonald’s from time to time! I know McDonald’s gets a bad rap a lot of times, but I have to tell you, when I was pregnant with my twins, the Quarter Pounder with Cheese and French Fries? That, my friends, was my meal of choice. I especially love the ones that come from restaurants that are no longer in existence, or if they decide to take them from the menu. This Copycat McDonald’s Big Mac can have you enjoying Micky D’s, right in your own kitchen!Ĭopycat recipes are the best!! In fact, I have a whole section on my blog dedicated to them. Who loves McDonald’s? I am a sucker for their french fries, and their burgers. No need to go to McDonald’s for a Big Mac when you can make this copycat recipe, using fresh ingredients from your own kitchen.

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