Big Mac Sauce is perfect on burgers, fries, and salads! With just a handful of basic ingredients, it's simple and delicious!
Big Mac Sauce is one of the reasons people buy the big mac, but little did you know, it's so easy to make it! Most of the ingredients are probably already in your fridge and pantry!
This Copycat Big Mac Sauce is delicious on a Big Mac Lettuce wrap, in a Big Mac Salad, or on burgers, fries, or whatever you want! Whip up a batch and keep it in the fridge to use as needed!
I absolutely loved this sauce on these Air Fryer Hamburgers and also Air Fryer Fish!
I love trying copycat sauces such as the delicious ZAX SAUCE, In-n-Out Sauce, or Outback Bloomin' Onion Sauce!
Making Big Mac Sauce is so easy and it only contains a few ingredients. If you look at the ingredient list from McDonalds, there will be tons of ingredients (33 to be exact) that you won't recognize like, 'Spice Extractives, Polysorbate 80, Propylene Glycol Alginate, Sodium Benzoate (Preservative), and Vegetable Protein,' just to name a few. What are these things?!??!
I love to know what's actually in the food I'm eating, so figuring out how to make Big Mac Sauce without all the scary ingredients was a must for me, and not too difficult.
I tried various recipes I found online, but nothing seemed quite right. After tweaking things multiple times, I found the best copycat big mac sauce recipe!
How to make Big Mac Sauce:
**scroll all the way down for full ingredient list and printable directions**
- Add mayonnaise, relish, mustard, apple cider vinegar, and seasonings. Whisk to combine well.
- Place covered in the fridge for at least an hour to let the flavors meld.
- Serve as desired, shaking/stirring before using, and store covered in the fridge for up to 2 weeks. Shake or stir before using.
How to use Big Mac Sauce:
Using this Copycat Big Mac Sauce is a non-issue! It's delicious on EVERYTHING!
- Use this sauce on the delicious low carb Big Mac Lettuce Wraps or on top of the Low Carb Big Mac Salad!
- If you like dipping french fries, sweet potato fries, or onion rings in sauce, this is perfect.
- Perfect topping on these Air Fryer Hamburgers or Air Fryer Hot Dogs!
- Using Big Mac Sauce with Air Fryer Asparagus Fries or Air Fryer Sweet Potato Fries or Air Fryer French Fries is also a winning combination!
- Baked Avocado Fries are also a delicious option for this sauce!
- Serve Big Mac Sauce over a salad as a delicious dressing. If you want the sauce a little thinner, just add a splash of milk or rice vinegar to the dressing.
- The obvious answer here is A BURGER! Whip up some homemade beef or veggie burgers and drizzle the big mac sauce over the top- YUM!
If you like dipping sauces as much as I do, check these dips out as well:
- Zaxby’s Sauce is perfect dip for chicken or french fries . With only a handful of ingredients, it’s super easy to make and majorly addicting!
- Copycat Chick-fil-A sauce is the BEST dipping sauce! This copycat recipe is spot on and perfect for dipping nuggets, fries, or topping burgers and sandwiches!
- Copycat Outback Bloom Sauce is perfect for Outback Bloomin Onion Petals or onion rings!
- Jalapeno Ranch is an easy dip/dressing that is tasty on everything! Use it on salads, dip fries and onion rings in it, or use it on my favorite- pizza!
- Cilantro Lime dip is delicious for chips, enchiladas, tacos- you name it!
Big Mac Sauce is perfect on burgers, fries, and salads! With just a handful of basic ingredients, it's simple and delicious!
- ½ cup mayonnaise, low fat if desired
- 2 TBS relish
- 1 ½ TBS mustard
- ½ TBS BBQ sauce
- 1 TBS apple cider vinegar
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- ½ teaspoon onion powder
- ½ teaspoon paprika
- ¼ salt
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Add mayonnaise, relish, mustard, apple cider vinegar, BBQ sauce, and seasonings. Whisk to combine well.
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Place covered in the fridge for at least an hour to let the flavors meld.
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Serve as desired, shaking/stirring before using.
Recipe Video
Store covered in the fridge for up to 2 weeks. Shake or stir before using.
Nutrition (calculated with low fat mayo, using 6 servings of about 2 TBS each):
- 49 calories, 3g fat, 6g carbohydrates, 5g sugar, 0g protein.
Originally published April 2019. Updated May 2022.
Ashley F
We love this! Put it on everything!
Aimee Shugarman
Tasted SPOT ON. So yummy.
Erin
Summer grilling just got better! Going to be putting this on everything.
Kristyn
Love adding sauce to burgers! It gives them such a nice, yummy bonus! Love that it requires ingredients I usually have on hand, too!
Chrissie Baker
I don’t eat many Big Mac’s, but I do love them! I’m excited to make this sauce at home and add it to my own homemade burgers! Thanks for the recipe!!
Sommer
Tasted just like the real thing!
Toni
May I ask what relish you used ?
Dee
This looks so tasty! Definitely having this for dinner tonight
Jessica | The Novice Chef
Ohh... I always love a good burger sauce!
Catalina
wow! I was looking for this sauce. I am so glad to make it at home!
Valentina
Amazing sauce recipe! We love to use this sauce for anything!
Sharon
Never liked Big Mac's. But did like the sauce...lol now I can make it for on whatever I want.
Tab
This was delicious!! We all loved it and tastes almost identical. This will be my go to sauce from now on. Ps, even better with pickles lol
Allyson
I seriously love this sauce on EVERYTHING!!! So good!
Krista
I love when you can have a homemade sauce at home!
Jackie
This tastes just like the original from the golden arches. After working there for many years in college. I know what's good and what's bad. You have nailed it!
Marilyn
Do you use dill or sweet pickle relish? Also what brand of BBQ sauce as some are sweeter than others?
Allyson
Hey there! I used sweet relish. I also used just a generic BBQ sauce from Kroger so I would just use what you typically use as long as it's not smoked or with extra flavors.
Chad
@Allyson
You probably get this alot,and no white knight, but I would crawl across the entire Sahara desert with nothing to drink but Rebel Wilson's chest sweat and Justin Bieber songs playing in my ear the entire time if it meant I could kiss the ground your muddy boots once walked on.
Allyson
OMG you are cracking me up! Love it!!!
Double Wide Surprise
That's kinda creepy ngl
Allyson
hahahahahaha!
Terry
Easy recipe and tastes great. Maybe a little too vinegary for my taste so I may cut the cider vinegar portion (or possibly the mustard portion) next time around.
Virginia Roark
I thought it was absolute perfect until I added the paprika.
Shiyam
The Mustard? What kind of mustard?
Allyson
regular yellow mustard
Lisa
I haven't tried this yet ... literally just found this recipe ... but I'm so excited about it. One of the ingredients you listed that is in big mac sauce (propylene glycol alginate) is a severe anaphylaxis allergy for me all of a sudden! It is a type of algae and I have developed a severe allergy to all things that come from the ocean. Now that I have to read every ingredient for everything I eat, I'm shocked at the multitude of random itemsisted in the foods we eat.
Thanks so much for this recipe. I love a good Big Mac but will now always have to make them at home. No more McDonald's for me until their ingredients change, which I'm sure will never happen!!
Allyson
That is so crazy!!! I also developed an anaphylaxis allergy to avocado when I was pregnant with my first and now can't eat it! It's too crazy! You will LOVE this sauce! It's the best!
Brandy L Davenport
This happened to my DIL when she was pregnant too! Only she doesn't get anaphylaxis she gets gastroparesis for like a week or longer if she has any!! She loves avocados and used to eat them all the time. Now, NADA!
Allyson
Really?!?! You are the first person I have ever heard of that happening to as well! My OB ended up telling me later after that, that it signifies a latex allergy and when I had my second child the room had to be completely latex free! Was crazy!
Martha
Even easier is to mix Kraft Tartar Sauce with Marzetti's Thousand Island dressing. Voilá! Big Mac Sauce with two ingredients!
Markeazy
How much do you mix in?
Kay
How is that 2 ingredients??! Two processed ‘foods’ mixed together is not two ingredients 🤦🏻♀️
Cindy
Mmm this is the best. I make vegan big macs for the kids and this is our go to recipe.
Allyson
So yummy right!!!!
Kevin
How do you make a sauce with Mayo (eggs) "vegan" ? just curious
Allyson
Maybe use vegan mayo?
Debra
I like a product called Veganaise from a company called Follow Your Heart. Hellman’s also makes a vegan Mayo but I haven’t tried it.
marvina Rose johnson
Sounds awesome. However, sweet or dill relish?
Allyson
sweet relish is the one I always use!
Charlie
The original Big Mac sauce called for equal parts
of both sweet relish AND dill relish.
Also, equal parts mayo AND Miracle Whip. It also
used a small amount of French Dressing (Wish Bone,
to be specific) and a little bit of ketchup.
Jon
Great sauce I made this the other night for my youtube channel and it was perfect check it out if you want https://youtu.be/6jSI3iDg1OQ
Allyson
Looks great, Jon! Cheers!
chris
What type of bbq??
Allyson
I just use an 'original' BBQ sauce.
Carlos
Awesome! I didn't use onion powder (my wife hates onion) and replaced BBQ sauce with some ketchup (didn't realize I was out of BBQ sauce). Also didn't add vinegar because the first time I made it the vinegar was a little bit overwhelming for me (Didn't have relish that time though). Anyway, even with those changes it was delicious!!!! Great recipe!
Ed Boress
I have to disagree somewhat.
Taste their sauce again. There is a very slight hint of horseradish. I'm sure it's in powder form. Mind you, it's not burn your nostrils hot. It's extremely subtle.
Laurie DeClara
What kind of mustard?
Yellow, spicy brown, Dijon? Prepared? Powdered?
Allyson
Yellow mustard as shown in the photo 🙂