Pregnant mum recreates Big Mac after craving McDonald's during lockdown

A mum has shared her recipe to make a McDonald's Big Mac complete with its famous sauce at home during lockdown - and it’s incredibly simple.

Elise Clark, 25, who is eight months pregnant, created the iconic burger to curb her cravings while her favourite fast-food chain is closed.

The mum-of-one, from Nuneaton, shared her recipe on Facebook group Rate My Plate, describing the dish as "simple and delicious" using store cupboard ingredients.

The Big Mac is simple and easy to make with store cupboard ingredients (Elise Clark/Facebook)

She told the Record: "I am almost 38 weeks pregnant and have been craving a McDonald's since the day it closed. So one day, I stood up, brushed myself off and made a huge Big Mac".

So how did she make it? Here's the recipe for the McDonald's Big Mac fakeaway:

Ingredients

• 1 egg
• 300g mince meat
• Garlic powder
• Grated onion
• A pinch of salt and pepper
• Sesame seed buns (1 × top and 2 x bottom bun)
• Cheese slices

Bind the meat, garlic, onion, egg and seasoning together and shape into patties (Elise Clark/Facebook)

Sauce:

• 300ml mayonnaise

• 200ml ketchup

• 1 tsp English mustard

• A pinch of salt and pepper

• 1 level tsp paprika

• Diced onion

• Diced gherkins

The delicious Big Mac lookalike will curb the cravings until McDonald's reopens its doors (Elise Clark/Facebook)

Method:

• Mix all of the sauce ingredients together and set aside
• Bind the meat, garlic, onion, egg and seasoning together thoroughly and shape into thin, wide patties (they shrink when cooking)
• Fry with a dash of oil on each side for approx 2/3 minutes

• Put the patties in the oven at 180C for roughly15 minutes
• Starting with the bottom bun, add the Big Mac sauce, lettuce, gherkins, 1 x patty, a slice of cheese
• Place another bottom bun on top and then  - sauce, lettuce, gherkins, patty, cheese - then top of the bun

The end result should be a delicious Big Mac lookalike that will curb the cravings until McDonald's reopens its doors.

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