The Big Mac appeared on the menu in 1968
The Big Mac index was even named after the popular sandwich - an unofficial way of determining real exchange rates in different countries.
Experts compare Big Mac prices in different countries. A burger is a miniature consumer basket: it contains meat, bread, cheese and vegetables. It is convenient because McDonald's is in many countries, and the price of a sandwich depends on the cost of food, rental prices, demand, salary levels and other factors.
In 2021, the Swiss Big Mac became the most expensive - asking $6.54 for it. In second place is the United States ($5.74).
In the Russian Federation, a sandwich can be bought for $2.04, in most European countries – for $4.57. In Kazakhstan, the "Big Mac Index" inspired the creation of the "Beshbarmak Index".
Cooking a hamburger like at McDonald's
A McDonald's burger consists of a bun cut in half, a beef patty, pickled cucumbers and fresh tomatoes, ketchup, sauce and lettuce.
Cutlet recipe
For one hamburger patty like at McDonald's you need 100 g of minced meat. The ingredients in the recipe will make five cutlets.
Ingredients:
- half a kilo of beef;
- egg;
- five tbsp. breadcrumbs;
- 1 l.h. oregano, cumin and coriander;
- salt, ground pepper.
Preparation:
- Pass the meat through a meat grinder and make minced meat.
- Add crackers with egg, spices and mix well.
- Divide the minced meat into five parts and make a ball out of each.
- Flatten the balls and make cutlets - flat cakes.
- Fry for ten minutes on each side of the cutlet.
Bun recipe
McDonald's hamburger buns turn out rosy and fluffy. The ingredients make 18 buns.
Ingredients:
- one and a half stack. water;
- half stack milk;
- one tbsp dry yeast;
- three tbsp. l. Sahara;
- two pinches of salt;
- three tbsp. oil drain;
- seven stack. flour;
- sesame.
Preparation:
- Dissolve yeast in warm water.
- Bring the milk to a boil and pour into a separate bowl.
- Add salt with sugar and butter. Stir until the butter melts.
- When the milk mixture has cooled and becomes warm, pour it over the yeast. Stir and add three tablespoons of flour.
- Stir the mass, add three more tablespoons of flour.
- Knead the dough for another 8 minutes and add flour if necessary.
- Leave the dough to rise.
- Divide the finished risen dough into 18 parts.
- Place McDonald's hamburger buns on a greased baking sheet and cover with a towel.
- After an hour, grease the buns with butter, sprinkle with sesame seeds and bake in the oven at 200 degrees.
When we remember a hamburger, we remember America. After all, it is the most common fast food there. Due to the fast cooking speed, this product has become very popular.
The dish got its name from the second largest city in Germany. Initially, the dish was very unusual, but a few years later the hamburger recipe spread throughout the world.
A meat patty is placed inside the hamburger and is complemented with plenty of vegetables, bacon, sauce and spices. This is a very nourishing, tasty and high-calorie product. To prepare a meat cutlet, it is best to combine lean and fatty meat in a 2:1 ratio.
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:
We will prepare the breading for the chicken pieces from the following ingredients:
We will also have homemade sauce, simple and at the same time delicious. For it you will need:
Instead of a cutlet, we will have fried chicken fillet. It must be marinated first.
How to cook
Cut the chicken fillet into small pieces. They should be the same in diameter as the bun.
Pour all the ingredients into a bowl - salt, ground black pepper, mustard, onion and garlic powder, paprika, add the meat, mix.
While the chicken is marinating, and this happens for 30 minutes, prepare the sauce.
Mix mayonnaise, mustard and garlic powder in another bowl and leave on the table.
In a clean bowl, beat two chicken eggs, add salt and pepper, and beat again.
Place breadcrumbs on a saucer.
First dip each piece of chicken in the egg mixture, then in breadcrumbs. Fry each on both sides for 3 – 4 minutes. Place on a towel.
Now it's time to assemble our chicken burger.
Grease the bottom bun with our sauce.
Place lettuce leaf. On it is a piece of chicken.
Cover the top with the top bun, which should also be coated with sauce.
Our chicken burger is completely ready. All that remains is to taste it and admire our culinary art.
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How to cook a hamburger?
To prepare a hamburger we will need: -200 grams of pork; -500 grams of beef; -1 large tomato; – green salad leaves; – 4 pickled gherkins; -1 tablespoon of wine vinegar; -if desired, you can add pickled cucumbers; – 1 onion; – 1 tablespoon of mayonnaise; – 1 tablespoon of ketchup; – 1 tablespoon of vinegar; – 1 tablespoon of Worcestershire sauce; -2 tablespoons of vegetable oil; - packaging of processed cheese in slices; - eight ready-made wheat buns with sesame seeds; -salt, pepper to taste.
Turn the meat into minced meat, add spices and mix thoroughly. Make cutlets, put them in a cool place and leave them for several hours.
You should form the cutlets with wet hands, this will give you a better shape.
Cut the gherkins, tomatoes and onions into thin rings. Set the gherkins and tomatoes aside. Pickle chopped onions in vinegar.
Mix mayonnaise, sauce and ketchup in equal proportions until smooth.
We take the meat cutlets out of the refrigerator, add a little salt and give them shape.
We begin to fry the cutlets in vegetable oil. Each side must be greased with mustard.
Place our cutlets on a baking sheet and place a slice of melted cheese on top. Place everything in the oven for 5 minutes at 180 degrees. This way the cutlets will be ready and the cheese will begin to melt.
We begin to form the hamburger. We cut the ready-made wheat buns lengthwise and place them in a frying pan so that they brown a little. The buns must be placed cut side down on the frying pan. Lubricate them with the previously prepared sauce of ketchup, mayonnaise and sauce.
We alternately place lettuce, tomato, gherkins, and a meat cutlet with cheese on the bun. Cover the top with the other half of the bun.
This is the best and healthiest American fast food recipe. The burger turned out natural and tasty, without adding any chemicals.
Do-it-yourself Big Tasty, beloved by many
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. And it can be easily repeated at home.
What you will need:
But you'll have to tinker with the sauce. For it we will need:
And, of course, spices - ground black pepper, paprika and dried garlic.
How to cook
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.
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.
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!
That's it, our burger is ready! You can go taste this yummy!
Ingredients and how to cook
And more tipsBuns. To reduce the cooking time for hamburgers, you can buy ready-made buns. Cut them before folding the hamburger very carefully so as not to tear the edges.Cutlets. They should be thin and made from ground beef. Remember that when frying, they should acquire the size of a bun, so send a slightly larger piece into the frying pan. Fry the patties right before folding the burger. You can put a little butter in the minced meat, it will make them even juicier. Sauce. Ingredients can vary, including the use of vegetable, tomato and other types of sauces. Folding the hamburger. Try to assemble so that the layers are one above the other, without standing out too much, i.e. without getting out of order, so to speak. Remember that the cuts should be very thin, and the cheese (for a type of hamburger like a cheeseburger) should be placed directly on the hot patty. Add different vegetables!
History of the sauce
Fast food fans have long struggled with attempts to replicate the Big Tasty in their kitchens, but McDonald's restaurants kept the sauce recipe a closely guarded secret. So far, the chain's chef has not revealed its composition. It turned out that “liquid smoke” gives it an unusual taste and aroma, but the rest of the components are ordinary and can be found in any kitchen. In preparing the right Big Tasty sauce, the ratio of ingredients is important, which remains a secret, so in order to achieve one hundred percent similarity, you will have to experiment.
McDonald's often adapts local dishes
In Canada, this is Poutine - a popular potato in Quebec with pickled cheese, topped with a sweet sauce. In Brazil, croissants with cheese and ham are a popular breakfast option.
In Mexico, the menu includes burritos with sweet peppers and corn. In Australia - “Kiwi Burger” with cutlet, beets, tomato sauce and special cheese. In Canada, they offered a burger with lobster meat, but due to rising seafood prices, they had to part with it.
McLobster from Canadian McDonald's
Spanish restaurants serve cold gazpacho soup (in bottles!), in Italy - panzerotti pies with tuna and mozzarella, in Portugal - pea soup and ham and bean soup.
In France you can almost always order a sandwich in ciabatta (local rectangular bun), in Croatia - a roll with mushrooms and pork.
In Russia, pancakes are for breakfast. Even at Happy Meal.
The burgers are also different. For example, in Costa Rica you can buy a sandwich with marbled beef, in Argentina - a Big Mac with three beef patties, in Turkey - with four. In the USA, there is a burger with ribs (meat removed from the bones).
In China they serve huge burgers with chicken and several types of sauce, in Japan they serve sandwiches with shrimp cutlets. In the UAE, some sandwiches are wrapped in flatbreads like pita, while in Egypt you can order falafel (a flatbread with chickpea cutlets and vegetables).
In Hong Kong there is a burger with shrimp and pineapple:
McDonald's is unlikely to open in a third of the world's countries
First of all, these are Bermuda (a British overseas territory), Iran, Iceland, Bolivia, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Macedonia, Yemen, Montenegro, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and North Korea.
The list is far from complete - many African countries and island states can be included here. There are 197 recognized countries in the world, and McDonald's is present in more than 120.
In Yemen, extremists are threatening to destroy American restaurants, so the company isn't taking any chances. Restaurants operated in Iran until 1979, but then disappeared due to the conflict with the United States. But Mash Donald's appeared:There were McDonald's in Iceland and Bolivia, but they closed. In Zimbabwe, restaurants were going to open, but due to the economic crisis in the country, plans were changed.
In Macedonia, the manager’s license was taken away and the business had to be closed. A tiny restaurant was opened in Montenegro in 2003, but the authorities did not give the go-ahead for the franchise to operate.
McDonald's is banned in Bermuda, along with all fast food chains that have existed since the 1970s. But businessmen found a loophole in the law and in 1985 built a restaurant on a US naval base - according to documents, this is American territory. But in 1995 the base was closed, and the restaurant along with it.
At the same time, the North Korean government loves fast food from McDonald's. But since it is politically incorrect to open a chain in the country, we have to order food from South Korea. Delivered by plane.
Homemade chicken cheeseburger recipe
A delicious sandwich can also be made with a chicken cutlet inside. In fast food chains, this type of sandwich is called a chicken cutlet cheeseburger.
To prepare we need:
First, prepare the cutlet. To do this, chop the fillet into small pieces and grind with a blender.
Add one raw egg, salt, pepper to taste and breadcrumbs to the resulting minced meat.
Form into a patty larger than the bun.
Fry in sunflower oil until cooked.
Cut the buns into halves and fry the bread a little in a dry frying pan until the cuts harden or until golden brown.
Let's assemble our cheeseburger. First, grease the bun with sauce. By the way, preparing the sauce is a matter of adjusting the ratio of mustard, mayonnaise and ketchup to taste. If you cook for children, use less mustard.
Place the cutlet on a layer of sauce. Then add the cheese. Place lettuce leaves on the cheese.
