This burger sauce recipe, which gets its tang and sweetness from ketchup, sweet pickle relish, and vinegar, is the perfect foil for a juicy and tender burger.
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Mayo & Ketchup. It's like a little miracle isn't it? We used to put it on salad, burgers, and grilled cheese, when I was growing up. The only other ingredient was a few shakes of Tabasco. That's livin'!
No garlic—no deal.
Beautiful 😍❤️
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I want to know about that container of pickled onions!
You forgot the mustard. I believe I seen burger sauce made with mayonnaise, catchup, and mustard I thought.
This is what they give away for free
Sorry needs dill pickle relish
Sweet pickle relish AND sugar? 🤮 might as well just put corn syrup on your burger
So, thousand island dressing minus the onion and paprika.
Horrible video
Adore Julia 🎉. What time is dinner?
Fancy sauce. Check out the Fancy Sauce bit from the movie Step Brothers.
Thanks! I’m on this. 🤙🤙
I’m making a seafood boil today yum!
TFS
Looks delicious. I'll try it!
Congrats, you just made thousand island dressing. Lordt I just can't sometimes with this channel. 🙄
nooo… on the ketchup and sugar. Could use honey as a replacement for both.
Arctic circle sauce!
Mine is similar, but with horseradish.
Lotta good sounds here
The sugar is so unnecessary and some dijon would be a nice addition.
Did I just watch America's test kitchen make a subpar thousand island?
Love the sauce… I make a mix of Ketchup, BBQ sauce, Honey Mustard and a teaspoon of Old Bay Seasoning.
Sugar? .. on top of the sweet relish and ketchup….yeh makes sense ..
Thank you
No way am I putting mass-produced sugary gloop—made with nasty seed oils and other artificial stuff—on my lovely free-range, grass-fed beef. 🤢
Have you ever read the lists of ingredients on that rubbish?!
BBQ sauce is just as simple. I rarely buy it now. Ketchup, mustard, sugar, vinegar, worcester sauce is the base and you can vary that up as you choose
So… basically in n out sauce. Funny how there’s no reference or credits to any source. I know this is similar to many other ones, but people seeing this will be now referring to it as the “Julia Burger sauce” lol.
I skip the sugar and add a tsp of Deion mustard. Also why add white vinegar when you can add pickle juice? Yum!
I add West Indian curry powder to that
Who loves a squeeze bottle more than you? lol Looks good and will try it.
I am definitely going to try this.
Mine is similar, but less sugar, more sweet relish and substitute Sriracha for the ketchup.
Yum
Parabéns ao casal, adorei a dinâmica. Vou acompanhar por aqui e vou fazer as suas "trilhas".
I make something similar, but I go for yellow mustard in place of the vinegar, and minced unsweetened pickles in place of the relish. That's just how I go. I'd be more than happy to eat a burger made with Julia's sauce. It all makes sense, and even if it didn't, she's never steered us wrong in all the years she's been helping us. She could tell us to make a burger sauce out of fish sauce, tuna can water, and an old chopped-up jigsaw puzzle, and I'd still at least try it.
Looks yummy.
Yah the burger in the thumbnail is grossly undercooked. I am a former chef and a bloody red meat lover, but ground meat cooked medium rare is such a disgusting texture and a huge food borne illness risk. Cook your burgers please! Smash burgers are the ultimate burger anyways. Give me a fully cooked smash burger with crispy edges over a puck that is crumbly around the outside and mushy on the inside any day!
Thousand Island +Sriracha goes a long way!
You are so much more edible than the sauce. ❤
I… did not expect an ATK chef to serve dangerous food. Burgers MUST be well done – with beef, dangerous bacteria grow on the exterior/any cracks or surface exposed to air (because the meat is so dense). Hence, why a steak can be rare – as long as the outside is well-cooked, the beef is safe. However, a burger done any less than rare risks any of the diseases that eating raw beef could pose, and that is because when it is ground, it creates MUCH more surface area per weight.
Seriously, grossly irresponsible.
Seems really sweet for my taste.
I skip the pickles and vinegar, more ketchup, 1/2 tsp of horseradish sauce and equal amount of caramelized onions. When I'm feeling special, I will add a tablespoon of crumbled feta or blue cheese.
I’ve been making similar burger sauces for over a decade.
But they were always missing something.
Worcestershire!
If you feel like your burger sauce is missing something, add 1-2 dashes of Worcestershire.
Trust me.
Needs siracha
Thanks, Julia. So good.
This is my favorite sauce ever. I sometimes add onion powder and garlic powder to give it some additional flavor.
Love her as usual
Mine's "spicy garlic" BBQ sauce instead of the ketchup, sugar and vinegar (since it has all of that), then I still use the sweet pickle relish, but I also will add some of my frozen pre-cooked deeply-caramelized onions or some whole-grain mustard. And if I'm feelin' it, I might add a little maple syrup or sriracha, or a splash of Worchestershire sauce if I'm also putting mushrooms on the burger because they go together so well.