Burger like at McDonald's - recipes for a delicious DIY burger at home

Homemade burgers prepared like McDonald's are a favorite food for many. But unfortunately, few people know how to properly prepare such a delicious dish and what products will be needed, especially for the sauce.

And today we will have a large review article of such simple and wonderful recipes that will definitely suit your taste. And, of course, home-cooked Big Tasty and Royal de Luxe, Big Mac and McChicken will taste no different from the originals. But their cost will be several times cheaper.

Do-it-yourself Big Tasty, beloved by many

The real Big Tasty with your own hands at home This sandwich first appeared on the California market back in 1997. It was created so that the not yet very well-known McDonald's could compete with its more successful brother at that time - Burger King. And the recipe is actually not that complicated. It can be easily repeated at home.

What you will need:

• 200 g minced beef.
• Processed cheese - 3 slices (Emmental is best).
• One large tomato.
• One medium onion.
• Lettuce leaves.
• Special burger bun.
• Salt.
• Pepper.

But you'll have to tinker with the sauce. For it we will need:

• One chicken egg.
• A teaspoon of mustard.
• Vegetable oil – 60 ml.
• Lemon juice - 10 ml.
• BBQ sauce - 2 large spoons.

And, of course, spices - ground black pepper, paprika and dried garlic.

How to cook

Let's start with the cutlet.

Place minced meat in a bowl. Salt and pepper, mix well.

Form a cutlet with your hands. We make it neat and larger in size than the bun, since during the frying process its size will noticeably decrease.

Heat the pan well and fry on each side for 4 minutes.

The complete process of preparing a burger patty

When the cutlet is ready, you can start making the sauce. Let's make it as similar as possible to the one served at McDonald's. And by the way, we will definitely need an immersion blender.

Beat one egg into a blender bowl.

Add a teaspoon of mustard.

Pour in 30 ml of vegetable oil.

Let's start whisking. After a minute from the start of this process, pour in another 30 ml of oil.

Pour in half a teaspoon of paprika, a quarter of a teaspoon of dried garlic, a pinch of ground black pepper, a teaspoon of lemon juice, and 2 large spoons of barbecue sauce. And again, whisk everything thoroughly.

Making amazingly delicious burger sauce

When the sauce is ready, proceed to the buns. Everything is simple with them - you just need to fry them on the inside in a frying pan with or without oil - your choice. This must be done so that our homemade Big Tasty does not soften in the future.

Let's start assembling our delicious burger. Surely you just can’t wait to taste it!

1. Place 2 slices of cheese on the bottom bun.
2. Top with a cutlet.
3. On the cutlet - again a slice of cheese, this time one.
4. 3 slices thinly chopped tomato.
5. Onion, cut into half rings. Its quantity is up to your taste.
6. Lettuce leaf.
7. Grease the top bun on the inside with sauce and cover with our already prepared Big Tasty.

We begin to form our bun with the filling - the most delicious cutlet.
That's it, our burger is ready! You can go taste this yummy!

Beef burger patty recipe

The restaurant uses ground meat in its hamburgers. For home cooking, it is better to take 500 grams, this is enough for 5 cutlets. Or take fresh meat and mix the base yourself.

What you will need:

• beef meat - 0.5 kg.
• breadcrumbs - 4-5 tbsp. l.
• 1 chicken egg
• cumin, oregano and coriander - 1 tsp each.

Algorithm of actions:

Rinse the meat well and grind it through a meat grinder. Then mix all the spices, crackers and egg. The resulting minced meat is divided into even balls, which are flattened to form round cakes. Then they should be fried for 10 minutes on each side.

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The most delicious Royal de Luxe - we cook it ourselves at home

Favorite Royal de Luxe - isn't it literally drooling? Another famous and very popular burger that many people like. Juicy cutlet, great sauce and excellent aroma make this dish one of the most popular. Let's try to cook Royal de Luxe at home.

What you will need:

• 200 g minced beef.
• 2 slices of processed cheese (Cheddar is best).
• The tomato is not too big.
• Onion head.
• Pickled cucumbers.
• Lettuce leaves.
• Burger bun.
• Salt.
• Ground black pepper.
• Ketchup (Heinz is best).
• Mustard sauce (also Heinz).

The sauce here will consist of other ingredients. By the way, we will cook it first.

• Mayonnaise – 3 large spoons.
• Mustard - a teaspoon.
• Vinegar - a teaspoon.
• Dried basil - a pinch.

The cooking method is basically no different from the previous version.

How to cook

The sauce is very simple to prepare - we need to mix all the indicated ingredients well in one bowl.
Once the sauce is ready, you can start frying the cutlet. This is done in exactly the same way as in the recipe above - everything is simple and nothing complicated.

At the very end, you need to put a piece of cheese on the cutlet so that it can melt a little.

Be sure to fry the bun on the inside in a frying pan - dry or oiled, as you prefer.

Once all the prep work is done, you can start assembling the burger.

• Spread ketchup on the bottom bun.
• Place a slice of cheese.
• Next is a cutlet, with another slice of cheese on it.
• Tomatoes cut into rings. A couple of pieces is enough.
• Lettuce leaf.
• Cucumbers cut into thin slices.
• There is a teaspoon of mustard sauce on them.
• After that - a teaspoon of the sauce that we prepared at the very beginning.
• A couple of onion rings.

The process of assembling the bun with filling - our homemade Royal de Luxe is ready.
We coat the top bun with a little ketchup and place it on the very top of our burger.
That's all - our wonderful, beautiful and incredibly tasty Royal de Luxe is ready!

How to cook the "Classic American Burger"

Add salt, pepper, 2/3 of a finely chopped onion, chopped garlic and yolk to the ground beef. Mix thoroughly.

Divide the minced meat into 4-5 parts and form each into a flat round cutlet. Make a small indentation in the middle with your thumb.

Place the cutlets on a flat plate and place in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.

Now let’s fry the burger patties well in vegetable oil until cooked. Can be baked in the oven at 180 degrees or grilled.

Cut the burger buns in half and toast on the grill, in a dry frying pan or in a toaster.

Grease one half of the bun with ketchup, and the other with mustard or mustard sauce.

Wash the lettuce leaves thoroughly and then dry. Place lettuce leaves on the bottom of the bun, and pickled cucumber slices on top.

Place the cutlet.

Cover the hot cutlet with a slice of cheese, lay out tomato slices and onion rings. You can take the onion raw, or you can take it fried.

And cover with the second part of the bun. Bon appetit!

The most popular Big Mac on a sesame bun

Big Mac on a sesame bun. They sang, of course, right? So we got to the most popular burger from McDonald's. But you can also do it yourself. Moreover, if previous recipes were for one serving, here we will prepare two at once.

What you will need:

• 4 sesame buns for sesame burger.
• 4 beef cutlets.
• Iceberg lettuce – 4 leaves.
• A couple of slices of processed cheese (Cheddar is best).
• One small onion.
• Pickled cucumber – 8 slices.
• Homemade sauce for Big Mac according to the original recipe.
• Ground black pepper.
• Salt.

Now let's collect everything we need to prepare the original sauce that we will use to prepare the Big Mac hamburger.

• Half a pickled cucumber.
• 4 large spoons of mayonnaise.
• A tablespoon of mustard.
• A teaspoon of garlic powder.
• A teaspoon of onion powder.
• A teaspoon of sugar.
• A teaspoon of ketchup.
• Vinegar - optional.

And we start making the sauce first. Therefore, prepare a deep bowl where we will mix everything.

How to cook

Cut and mash the cucumber until it turns into a paste.

Add mayonnaise and all other ingredients to it. Mix everything thoroughly and leave for 30 minutes on the kitchen table.

Prepare the sauce. It's not quite as simple as it might seem

Half an hour later we begin to assemble the burger.

Fry the buns on the inside in a frying pan, but just a little.

We prepare cutlets from the minced meat, do not forget to add salt and pepper, fry for 4 minutes on each side.

Spread the first bottom bun with homemade Big Mac sauce.

Place onion cut into rings on it, and lettuce on top.

Next is a piece of cheese. And for him - the first cutlet.

Coat the second bottom bun with our homemade sauce and place it on the cutlet. The sauce should be on top.

Next - onions and lettuce, then pickled cucumbers cut into slices and a second cutlet.

Cover everything with the top bun.

And here is the process of “assembling” a Big Mac, which will not be inferior in taste to what is sold at Mac

This is the simple and tasty hamburger we made for a snack. I think it can replace a full lunch and even dinner when there is simply no time to cook something else.

Hamburger with onions and blue cheese - an unusual recipe

Delicious homemade beef hamburger recipe. Learn how to make a burger, step by step, with onions, watercress and blue cheeses.

Ingredients

• Beef
  600 g, minced
• chillies
  , finely chopped and seeded
• Garlic
  2 cloves
• Eggs
  2
• Olive oil
  4 tablespoons
• Onion
  4
• Mayonnaise
  4 tablespoons
• Ketchup
  4 tablespoons
• Bread
  4 round hamburger sandwiches
• Cheese
  150 g, blue cheese
• Watercress
  4 bunches

• Preparation time
  20 m
• Cooking time
  10 m
• Portions
  4

Preparation

1. Add chopped peppers and garlic to the minced meat.
2. Season with salt and pepper, then mix everything back into the beaten egg.
3. Form 4 burgers with your hands and set them aside.
4. Heat the oil in a high-sided frying pan and slowly fry the onions until browned, stirring frequently to prevent them from burning.
5. In the meantime, mix ketchup and mayonnaise together and fry round sandwiches.
6. When the onions are ready, remove them from the pan, wash the pan and add a little new oil. Cook the burgers for three minutes on each side or until the inside is cooked through.
7. Place some onions on the sandwich as a base, add the hamburger, cheese, watercress and mayonnaise and serve immediately.

McChicken or just chickenburger

If you prefer chicken meat, then the McChicken option will be just perfect for you, which you can also quickly make at home with your own hands.

What you will need:

• 200 g chicken breast.
• Salt.
• Ground black pepper.
• A teaspoon of mustard.
• A couple of teaspoons of onion powder.
• Garlic powder - to your taste.
• Paprika – a pinch.
• Iceberg lettuce leaves.

We will prepare the breading for the chicken pieces from the following ingredients:

• Half a teaspoon of salt.
• Half a teaspoon of ground black pepper.
• A couple of eggs.
• 2 cups prepared breadcrumbs.

We will also have homemade sauce, simple and at the same time delicious. For it you will need:

• 120 g mayonnaise.
• A teaspoon of mustard.
• A pinch of garlic powder.

Instead of a cutlet, we will have fried chicken fillet. It must be marinated first.

Bun recipe

In fast food restaurants, burgers are served with soft and golden brown buns. Let's figure out how to create such burger dough at home. The list of products below is designed to prepare 18 pieces.

What is necessary:

• ½ glass of milk
• 1.5 glasses of water
• dry yeast - 1 tbsp. l.
• 7 cups flour
• salt - 2 pinches
• sugar - 3 tbsp. l.
• butter - 3 tbsp. l.
• sesame seeds

Instructions:

1. The water needs to be warmed up a little, since you need to add yeast, and it needs to be diluted only in warm water.
2. Bring the milk to a boil and pour it into a separate container. Add butter, sugar and salt here, stirring.
3. When the milk becomes warm, you need to combine it with the yeast solution and add 3 tablespoons of flour to it. Then, stirring the same amount. Knead the dough, adding flour successively. Knead the mixture for at least 10 minutes.
4. The dough should be left for some time to rise. After which, it can be divided into balls for buns.
5. Place the formed buns on a greased baking sheet and cover with a towel for 1 hour.
6. After time, grease the muffins with oil, sprinkle them with sesame seeds and bake in an oven preheated to 200 degrees.

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Interesting additions

Gourmets and lovers of unusual gastronomic combinations come up with many variations on the preparation of famous sandwiches. Some of them have become quite popular, and fast food restaurants themselves have included these ideas in their main menu or offer additional ingredients to the standard burger.

Caramelized or breaded onions

Sweet onions, as it turns out, are almost the best addition to a juicy cutlet, and the islandy-sweet flavor is winning over a growing audience of those who like to have a snack on the run.

The recipe is incredibly simple: in a heated frying pan with oil, onion rings are fried with sugar and wine (wine or balsamic vinegar) until caramelized and soft.

Topping in the form of breaded onion rings is used not only in burgers, but also in hot dogs, and recently as an independent snack.

Onion pieces are mixed with flour and salt and then deep-fried or in a frying pan.

Hot peppers

The jalapeno pepper is not as harmless as it might seem at first glance. A few slices of this vegetable can make eating a regular hamburger truly thrilling. Since jalapeño does not grow in our latitudes, it can be found in canned and ready-to-eat form in large grocery stores.

Fried bacon

A quintessential American staple, fried bacon has become a popular addition to regular hamburgers. When a couple of slices of bacon on top of a meat patty never hurt, right?

Strips of bacon are simply fried in oil for a few minutes over high heat, creating a crunchy, calorie-rich bonus to your standard meat sandwich.

How to form the right cutlet?

In order for the cutlets to turn out beautiful and even when formed, you need to divide the minced meat into balls of the same size and weight. This makes it easier to give them the desired shape and determine the time required for frying. To prepare one cutlet you need about 150-200 grams of minced meat. Using a special plastic or metal hamburger patty mold, you can quickly and easily form burgers into round, square or oval shapes. To do this, place a ball of minced meat inside the mold, use the lid to level it and press it down, resulting in a smooth cutlet with a grooved surface.

The thickness of the semi-finished product depends on the amount of minced meat and is selected based on your own preferences. A standard beef hamburger patty has a diameter of 10 cm and a height of 2 cm.

If you don’t have a press, you can use a culinary ring or cut a ring of the required height from a regular plastic bottle, and use a canned food jar instead of a lid.

Advantages

If you like hamburgers, then the press is a great helper. Probably everyone knows that the main difference between hamburger cutlets and homemade ones is the composition. Only fresh minced meat, spices and salt and no binding ingredients like eggs. It is very difficult to form a perfectly even cutlet from such a mixture by hand, so the main advantages of the press are:

• you can vary the thickness, which will be the same both in the middle and along the edges;
• saving time - not everything may work out the first time, but once you get the hang of it, the process will take a couple of seconds;
• the opportunity to replace unhealthy fast food with healthy food - replace beef with chicken breast, add vegetables and fry without adding oil;
• the appetizing appearance of steaks, zraz and cheesecakes, regardless of whether they are fried in a pan or on the grill;
• lovers of experiments can prepare zrazy with perfectly round filling;
• uniform roasting - again thanks to uniform thickness;
• easy to care for - just wash with a sponge and any dish soap or load into
• dishwasher.

The press can also be used for preparing dietary dishes or desserts. Replace minced meat with a curd mixture and create perfect, golden-brown cheesecakes for breakfast.

How to choose

Pay attention to the material. Plastic models are usually cheaper, but will not last long

Metal ones are an order of magnitude more expensive, have special notches that imitate grill strips, and they look much more presentable. Typically, the supplier of inexpensive kitchen gadgets is China. It is impossible to check how safe the dyes used in the production of presses are. So you should not choose models of bright, acidic colors.

If you order a device online, choose trusted sellers and carefully study the characteristics of the product. Plastic must be food grade, marked ABC

Pay attention to reviews (especially when ordering from a well-known Chinese online trading platform)

As for the diameter, most models on the market range in size from 9 to 12 cm. Some forms have an additional scale for determining gramming - they are more expensive and more suitable for professional use. It is unlikely that anyone will weigh meat on a scale while cooking. There is no need to buy a special press for preparing zraz with filling. It’s only in advertising that everything turns out quickly and simply. In reality, you will have to suffer for a long time, at least with cheap models. You can make a depression for the filling using the handle of a press (if the design allows) or use a teaspoon.

Design – the simpler the better. The lids of cheap presses are equipped with special latches (plastic is a fragile material and can easily crack under strong pressure). Working with them is not very convenient and takes a long time.

Tips for Cooking Burgers

To get a juicy burger-style steak, use only fresh minced meat (not defrosted). You can experiment and combine several types of meat, maintaining the proportion of 80% meat and 20% fat. Salt and spices, of course, to taste.

Before cooking, it is better to cool the minced meat a little - this will make it easier to remove the finished steak from the mold. To prevent the meat from sticking to the metal mold, you need to periodically moisten it with water (for plastic, you can use a small amount of vegetable oil).