"Two beef burgers, secret sauce, lettuce, onion, cheese and sesame seed encrusted bread." What do these ingredients remind you of? That's right, a tasty BIG MAC !! You are at home, comfortably sunk in your sofa, and you don't want to go out to the nearest McDonald's, but you have a craving for burgers. What to do? Here, directly to your home, the recipe for the Big Mac, secret sauce included. Let's see how to proceed.
Ingrediants
Sandwich
- Burger bread decorated with sesame seeds
- 2 beef burgers (just the right size for bread)
- 2 tablespoons of the Special Sauce
- 2 teaspoons of finely chopped onion
- 1 slice of soft cheese
- 3 slices of gherkins
- Iceberg lettuce cut into strips
Special Sauce
- 50 g of mayonnaise
- 2 tablespoons of French salad dressing
- 1 teaspoon of chopped cucumber
- ½ tablespoon of mustard
- 1 teaspoon of white wine vinegar
- 1 teaspoon of sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon of garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon of onion powder
- 1/2 teaspoon of paprika
Steps
Step 1. Make the sauce
Mix all the ingredients for the sauce in a bowl, you need to get a soft and smooth consistency. Keep it in the refrigerator for about an hour so that the ingredients blend perfectly.
Step 2. Prepare the bread
Get two burger buns. One cut it in half. Remove the top and bottom of the other sandwich to make a disc of bread that will serve as a sandwich between the two burgers.
Step 3. Prepare the meat
Work your burgers to give them a round shape with a diameter of about 8-9 cm (also adjusted according to the size of your bread) and a thickness of just under 1 cm.
Step 4. Prepare the toppings
- Take a small white onion and chop about ¼, put it in a bowl.
- Tear off, or roughly slice, a few lettuce leaves with your hands.
Step 5. Cook the burgers to your taste (rare, medium or well done)
Step 6. Toast the bread
While the burgers are cooking, you can toast the bread in the oven or pan. Follow your tastes and decide whether to toast the top of the bread on both sides or only on one.
Step 7. Spread the sauce
Season the two sides of the bread, where you will arrange the burgers, with 1 tablespoon of special sauce.
Step 8. Add the toppings
Add some lettuce to the sauce layer, do it for both bread discs.
On the bread that will make the bottom of your sandwich add the slice of cheese, on top of the lettuce. On the one that will act as a sandwich between the two hamburgers, add the sliced gherkins
Step 9. It's time for the flesh
Place each burger in place, one on top of the cheese and the other on top of the gherkins. Sprinkle each burger with chopped onion.
Step 10. Mount the Big Mac
Gently arrange one layer on top of the other in the correct order with the help of both hands.
Complete your Big Mac with the sesame seed bread 'hat'
Step 11. You have finished preparing your first Big Mac at home, enjoy your meal
Advice
- Try adding a slice of tomato and replace the chopped onion with sliced onion, if you want use the Romaine lettuce instead of the Iceberg. Your sandwich will continue to be a Big Mac, only a little more robust in taste.
- You can double the number of burgers to get a double Big Mac.
- Many websites claim that the American Thousand Island sauce is one of the key ingredients of the secret sauce used by the McDonald's chain in making its Big Macs. Seeing is believing.
