Big Mac

Yes you read the title correctly. I have perfected the recipe for this awesome burger with the help of my brother. He made them today and followed the recipe for the sauce down to the drop (which I rarely do). So thank you Mark.

When I first saw this recipe, I was so excited. I had finally made it and it took about an entire batch to remember that the lettuce is shredded and mixed with some of the sauce. It took this batch of burgers to remember that there's cheese in there as well. I know there are pickles, but there's some relish in the sauce already so that should suffice. You know what though, in the end it's all up to you. You can make it an exact replica of what you would find in McDonald's or you can adjust it to your liking.

There are probably two recipes in this one. The sauce and the burger patties. The burger patties are really just some flattened ground beef with salt and pepper. However, I'm not serving this for anyone but me, my mom and brothers so I figured, why not spice up the patties. So I did!

Big Mac

Burger Patties:

1 pound of ground beef
4 pcs of finely chopped mushrooms
1/4 finely chopped onions
1 tsp garlic salt
1/8 tsp of cayenne pepper (add more if you want it spicier)
salt and pepper to taste

Mix all these ingredients together. A good way to see if the mixture is to your liking is take a small piece, flatten it with your fingers and cook on a hot pan. Don't forget though, that if you lack the ingredients listed above, you can omit the mushrooms, garlic salt and cayenne pepper. You're left with the beef, onions, salt and pepper. Just mix all those ingredients up and flatten them with the use of a large piece of parchment paper as seen here.




Sauce

1/2 cup mayonnaise
2 tbsp french dressing
4 tsp relish
1 tbsp minced onions
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp white vinegar
1/8 tsp salt

Combine all the ingredients and set aside.



Shred the lettuce into strips and mix in some sauce. Set that aside.



Take your burger buns and cut the top bun into two like shown here.



The Burger

Cook the meat and add the bread in to toast if you like. I like to cook the meat until it's brown before I add the bread to make sure no cross contamination occurs. Plus, the oil from the meat helps toast the bread, so I like to add the bread when the oil starts to show. Here's something else to keep in mind though, the meat releases a lot of fat into the pan and you don't really want the bread to absorb it all so if this is something that's an issue, just pop it in the toaster. Luckily my pan is lop-sided so all the oil pools to one side. ;p



Take the lower piece of bread and put a little bit of the sauce, probably 1 tsp. Place the burger on top (with an optional slice of cheese) and add some of the lettuce and sauce mixture. Add the middle section of the bread a little bit more sauce, the second patty (optional cheese) and more of the lettuce mixture. Put the uppermost bread and viola, a Big Mac replica.




Enjoy!