Big Mac Sauce

This creamy and flavorful homemade Big Mac Sauce is an easy McDonald’s copycat recipe that you can make from scratch. While I love this sauce recipe drizzled over burgers, it’s great on other sandwiches and French fries too.

One great thing about making your own Big Mac Sauce is you can customize it to your liking or keep it classic. I like to include sweet relish, while pickle relish will yield a sauce more like the fast food chain. And you could even make this a little spicy by adding some cayenne or hot sauce to the mix.

Related: Next up, learn to make your own Chick-fil-A sauce or BBQ sauce.

Ingredients

• Mayo
• Relish – pickle relish or sweet relish
• Vinegar
• Mustard
• Salt
• Pepper
• Paprika

While I tend to use sweet relish in this recipe, using pickle relish will make this Big Mac Sauce more of a McDonald’s copycat recipe.

Directions

Add all the ingredients to a small mixing bowl. Stir until combined. Taste and add more salt and pepper or anything else you feel it needs.

You can use this sauce right away or store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for at least two weeks.

Tips and Substitutions

• Swap the mayo or Miracle Whip to lighten this recipe. Or you can use a vegan mayo, like Veganaise, to make this vegan friendly.
• Use dijon mustard instead of yellow mustard to update the flavor and fancy this sauce recipe up a bit. 🙂
• You can use apple cider vinegar to add a little more flavor.
• If you want to add some heat, try adding 1/4 teaspoon cayenne to this Big Mac Sauce or a couple dashes of your favorite hot sauce.

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• Cocktail sauce
• Mole sauce
• Chipotle sauce
• Sweet chili sauce
• Ponzu
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• Teriyaki sauce
• Stir fry sauce
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A creamy, flavorful McDonald's copycat recipe.

Yield 4

Prep 5 minutes mins

Total 5 minutes mins

Ingredients

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• ▢ ½ cup mayo
• ▢ 2 teaspoons pickle relish
• ▢ 1 teaspoon white vinegar
• ▢ 1 teaspoon mustard
• ▢ ¼ teaspoon paprika
• ▢ ½ teaspoon salt
• ▢ ¼ teaspoon pepper

Instructions

• Add all the ingredients to a small mixing bowl.
• Stir until combined.
• Taste and add more salt and pepper or anything else you feel it needs.
• You can use this sauce right away or store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for at least two weeks.

Notes

While I tend to use sweet relish in this recipe, using pickle relish will make this Big Mac Sauce more of a McDonald’s copycat recipe.

Swap the mayo or Miracle Whip to lighten this recipe. Or you can use a vegan mayo, like Veganaise, to make this vegan friendly.

Use dijon mustard instead of yellow mustard to update the flavor and fancy this sauce recipe up a bit. 

You can use apple cider vinegar to add a little more flavor.

If you want to add some heat, try adding 1/4 teaspoon cayenne to this Big Mac Sauce or a couple dashes of your favorite hot sauce.

© Author Emma Chapman

Course condiment

Cuisine American

Keywords sauce

Nutrition

Nutrition Facts

Big Mac Sauce

Amount per Serving

Calories

194

% Daily Value*

Fat

 

21

g

32

%

Saturated Fat

 

3

g

19

%

Trans Fat

 

0.1

g

Polyunsaturated Fat

 

13

g

Monounsaturated Fat

 

5

g

Cholesterol

 

12

mg

4

%

Sodium

 

510

mg

22

%

Potassium

 

12

mg

0

%

Carbohydrates

 

1

g

0

%

Fiber

 

0.1

g

0

%

Sugar

 

0.2

g

0

%

Protein

 

0.4

g

1

%

Vitamin A

 

34

IU

1

%

Vitamin C

 

0.4

mg

0

%

Calcium

 

4

mg

0

%

Iron

 

0.1

mg

1

%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Notice: Nutrition is auto-calculated, using Spoonacular, for your convenience. Where relevant, we recommend using your own nutrition calculations.