Homemade Egg McMuffin with Mac Sauce
I've said it before and I'll say it again - breakfast on the Alchemy is just next level. The plancha grill makes the perfect eggs, bacon, pancakes, French toast, you name it. So it was only a matter of time before I made one of my favourite breakfast classics on it, I'm actually surprised I hadn't done this sooner. I made a copycat Egg McMuffin with Big Mac sauce. If you know me at all, that is my go-to hack at McDonalds, I always ask for Big Mac sauce on my Egg McMuffin, but it has to be the sausage McMuffin for it to work.
For this recipe, the first step is to make your homemade mac sauce by mixing mayo, French dressing, and chopped pickles and onions. A little hack for your sausage patty, is to get breakfast sausages (raw) and remove the meat from the casing and form it into your patty. You can use a regular egg ring to make your fresh cracked egg, or, you can use my method of using a ring of fresh onion. It was kind of hard to take the onion ring off of the egg once it was cooked, but you can leave part of it on for extra flavour if you want, or cut it off.
The final touches of the perfect Sausage and Egg McMuffin dupe is a crispy, melty cheese skirt, made by melting your cheese directly on the plancha grill. Then, stack the egg and cheesy sausage patty onto a toasted English muffin, and top with the mac sauce. Now you have one epic breakfast sandwich! If you want to find out how to make my Homemade Egg McMuffin with Big Mac Sauce, keep reading, or jump to the full recipe.
Cut a one-inch-thick onion ring from the centre of the large white onion. Pop out the inside of the onion, leaving the largest exterior ring, and setting that aside. The exterior ring will be the egg ring you use to cook your egg. This is of course optional and you can use a regular metal egg ring.
Finely dice the remaining interior part of the onion ring.
Finely dice the pickle and add 1/2 tbsp into a bowl with 1 tbsp of chopped onion.
Add in the French dressing and mayo, mix to combine and set aside.
Crack the egg into a bowl and scramble. Add 1 tsp mayo on mix to combine.
Remove the sausage from it’s casing and form into a patty. Place on the plancha.
Add the onion ring to the plancha and pour in the egg. Allow the sausage patty to cook, flipping, until cooked through.
Allow the sausage patty to cook, flipping, until cooked through. Season the egg with salt and pepper and mix gently, so the egg can cook through in the ring. Flip the egg and let the other side cook. Then toast the English muffin on the plancha.
Add the grated cheese directly to the plancha and allow to melt and bubble.
When the bottom crisps up, flip onto the sausage patty.
Remove the onion ring from the egg. If a layer on onion sticks to the egg, just keep it on for extra flavour, or cut it off if you prefer.
To build, add the egg to the bottom of the English muffin, then the sausage patty with melted cheese, add a healthy dollop of homemade mac sauce and close the top.
And now for the full recipe...
Homemade Egg McMuffin with Big Mac Sauce
Makes 1 sandwich
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 15 minutes
Ingredients:
1 large breakfast sausage
1 ring of large white onion
1 pickle
2 tbsp French dressing
1/2 cup mayo, plus 1 tsp
1 egg
1 English muffin
Salt
Pepper
¼ cup grated marble cheddar cheese
How to Make a Homemade Egg McMuffin with Big Mac Sauce
Cut a one-inch-thick onion ring from the centre of the large white onion. Pop out the inside of the onion, leaving the largest exterior ring, and setting that aside. That will be the egg ring you use to cook your egg. Finely dice the remaining interior part of the onion ring. Finely dice the pickle and add 1/2 tbsp into a bowl with 1 tbsp of chopped onion. Add in the French dressing and mayo, mix to combine and set aside.
Crack the egg into a bowl and scramble. Add 1 tsp mayo on mix to combine.
Remove the sausage from it’s casing and form into a patty. Place on the plancha. Add the onion ring to the plancha and pour in the egg. Allow the sausage patty to cook, flipping, until cooked through. Season the egg with salt and pepper and mix gently, so the egg can cook through in the ring. Flip the egg and let the other side cook.
Toast the English muffin on the plancha.
Add the grated cheese directly to the plancha and allow to melt and bubble. When the bottom crisps up, flip onto the sausage patty.
Remove the onion ring from the egg. If a layer on onion sticks to the egg, just keep it on for extra flavour, or cut it off if you prefer.
To build, add the egg to the bottom of the English muffin, then the sausage patty with melted cheese, add a healthy dollop of homemade mac sauce and close the top.
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