McDonald's Breakfast Sauce Recipe (2024)

FAQs

What is McDonald's breakfast sauce made of? ›

McDonald's published the ingredients list on its website. The main ingredients of breakfast sauce are oil, eggs, and vinegar — so, basically, mayonnaise. It's the little extras that give it its distinct flavor.

But unless you plan on going on a breakfast sauce safari, you probably can't order a bagel to try it out. Apparently, it tastes like (drumroll please) Hollandaise sauce. It's creamy, eggy, tangy, and cheesy.

You can try the McDonald's breakfast sauce at any American location that serves bagel sandwiches. The U.S. McDonald's corporate website still lists breakfast sauce as a component of its sausage, steak, and bacon bagels. (Sorry, Canadians — breakfast sauce really was discontinued for you.

Our Bacon, Egg and Cheese Bagel features a toasted bagel with butter, thick-cut Applewood smoked bacon, a fluffy folded egg, creamy breakfast sauce and two slices of melty American cheese. There are 590 calories in a Bacon, Egg and Cheese Bagel.

The new sauces include its Sweet & Spicy Jam, a tangy red pepper sauce that combines cayenne pepper with a dash of apple cider vinegar and finishes with a “tongue-numbing Szechuan peppercorn kick,” according to a press release shared by the brand.

Homestyle Burger Sauce

Ingredients: Water, Soybean Oil, Distilled Vinegar, Spices, Salt, Egg Yolks, Turmeric, Sugar, Sodium Benzoate (preservative), Paprika, Spice Extractive, Lemon Juice Concentrate, Calcium Disodium Edta (protect Flavor).

Szechuan. Probably the most iconic of all discontinued McDonald's sauces, Szechuan dipping sauce was largely forgotten for two decades before it was dragged into the spotlight.

Our breakfast menu items are all made with real eggs—they're just prepared a little differently for each sandwich. We use a USDA Grade A cracked into an 'egg ring' to get that iconic round shape for our Egg McMuffin®. Our scrambled eggs are made with liquid eggs that are cooked on our grill with real butter.

The restaurant has said that having too large of a menu causes longer wait times in the drive thru and reportedly cut breakfast to help simplify operations for its workers. Most McDonald's serve breakfast from the time the restaurant opens through 10:30 or 11 a.m, depending on your store's location.

Why did McDonald's get rid of the breakfast bagel? ›

McDonald's launched a new type of bagel with egg and meat in 2018 but, as the covid-19 pandemic gripped the world in 2020, discontinued it due to both low demand and to minimize staff needed in the stores. Many of McDonald's breakfast items were discontinued during the pandemic.

Sadly, during the start of the 2020 pandemic, due to reduced staffing and a lack of dine-in traffic, the decision was made to end their super popular all-day breakfast to "provide better speed of service" to customers.

McDonald's breakfast bagels return 2024

Houston, St. Louis and Chicago are among the markets outside of California serving the bagels at participating locations, the company said.

Our breakfast menu items are all made with real eggs—they're just prepared a little differently for each sandwich.

The folded eggs, though, are cooked from the liquid eggs in factories. They are then flash-frozen and sent to McDonald's restaurants, where they are warmed right before serving them in menu items like egg and cheese biscuits, the McGriddle, and bagel sandwiches.

hollandaise sauce, one of the classic sauces of French cooking, made of butter, egg yolks, lemon juice, and pepper and usually served on fish, eggs, or vegetables.

Ingredients: Soybean oil, Water, Liquid egg yolk, Vinegar, Sugar, Salt, Mustard seeds, Mustard bran, Xanthan gum, Potassium sorbate, Calcium disodium EDTA. Contains: Egg, Mustard.

The answer is no… but they are similar. Both of the condiments have a creamy consistency and include pickle relish. But, McDonald's Big Mac Sauce includes vinegar and has a bit more pickle relish in it than Thousand Island dressing.

Our suppliers pre-cook liquid eggs with ingredients that include sausage, tomatoes, green chilies, onions and seasonings before flash freezing them to help maintain their taste.