Sauces for Burgers

Grandpas Grub · July 2009

There has been a lot of posts on burgers/cheeseburgers in the last few days and that has got me wanting some saucing ideas.

For those of you old enough, JB Big Boy had a sauce on their burgers that was pretty darn good. Mc. D's has their Big Mac sauce and independents have their great "red/orange" sauces.

I tried some some off the shelf Thousand Island dressings and none were worth using.

Anyone got any ides of what or recipes to use?

I like the standard ketchup & mustard. Here are some very good sauces I have used and like.
. Mayo, ketchup & mustard
. May and mustard mix
. White sauce, mix of sour cream and mayo or yogurt and mayo

For fries - mix of ketchup and mayo to an orangsih/red color - very popular out west.

Anyway I need some ideas on the thousand island type burger sauce.

Thanks, Kent

crghc98 · July 2009

I use a carolina gold type of bbq sauce as a topper for mine....i used to just go Ketcup and mustard, and if you like that try this....

1/2 cup cider vinegar
1 cup yellow mustard
1 cup ketchup
1/3 cup packed brown sugar (pack it really tight or throw in some extra)
2 garlic cloves, smashed
1 teaspoon salt or more to taste
1 teaspoon cayenne or less to taste
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 teaspoon of your favorite rub

Gunnar · July 2009

Where's Lawn Ranger when you need him. At the Coopfest he mixed some Chipolte Adobe sauce in with the Thousand Island to serve with the tater tots. Not bad if you like a little zing.

Jersey Doug · July 2009

The simpler the better with the saucing if it's good meat on a good bun. I put a generous slather of Hellmans mayo on the bottom bun, add a generous grind of black pepper, add the burger and top with the the top bun.

porterhouse64 · July 2009

ketchup
mayo
Worcestershire sauce
black pepper

Great on fries, chicken fingers, onion rings and most other things.

irishrog · July 2009

Hi Kent,
I have a sauce I make in bulk, which keeps for ever, and goes great with burgers.(My family think it goes great with everything!!)
Chop about 2 pounds of onions, and fry them until lightly browned. Ad 4 cloves of crushed garlic, and a good inch of fresh ginger, chopped fine. Then ad some spices. I like to use 1 teasopoon each of cayenne, smoked paprika, mustard powder, chilli flakes, 5 spice powder, and cinnemon. Cook for a few minutes to maximise the flavour of the spices. Then ad 15 fl oz of apple cider vinegar and bring to the boil. Reduce for about 10 minutes to concentrate the flavour further, then pour everything into a food processor and liquidise until smooth.
In the mean time put about 60 fl oz good quality tomato ketchup into the pot with some salt and pepper, and about 6 ounces of honey, and half a cup of muscavado sugar. Heat gently, and then ad back the liquidised onion & spice mix. Mix the 2 together, cool, and bottle. This makes a great sauce for burgers, steaks, and any amount of uses, my kids love it on sandwiches.
The spices can be adjusted to what you have availabe, or to your personal taste. Enjoy.
Greetings from Ireland, Roger.

bitslammer · July 2009

I occasionally want something really spicy so I mix this hot Indian pickle ilke this: http://store.indianfoodsco.com/grocery/ProdDesc.cfm?ItemId=SWP01220 with some mayo. The stuff I have is wickedly hot and has a very strong mustard taste as ti's packed with mustard seeds and oil. With the green chiles it looks like tartar sauce when I'm done. Hard to describe the tatse but think tatar sauce with much more tangy, salty and spicy bite.

Grandpas Grub · July 2009

Roger, Thanks for the recipe.

Kent

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