Burger sauce
5 min · 1 g protein · 32 cals / serving
The tangy, pickle-flecked pink sauce that makes a smash burger taste like a drive-in: creamy base, sweet relish, ketchup, yellow mustard and a splash of vinegar, with garlic and onion powder. Greek yogurt and a quarter cup of light mayo make the base, and it is good on fries, wraps and burger bowls too.
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup light mayonnaise
- 1/2 cup minus 1 tbsp nonfat Greek yogurt
- 3 tbsp relish, sweet pickle relish
- 1 1/2 tbsp ketchup
- 2 tsp yellow mustard
- 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
- 3/4 tsp onion powder
- 1/4 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp paprika
Steps
- Whisk everything together until smooth and an even pale orange.
- Cover and chill at least 1 hour. The relish and onion powder need that time to flavour the base, and it tastes noticeably better the next day. It keeps 5 days in the fridge.
Good to know
Sweet or dill relish?
Sweet relish gives the classic drive-in taste. Finely chopped dill pickle makes it sharper and more savoury, with a squeeze more ketchup to balance it, at about 44 instead of 29.
Can I make it all mayo?
Of course; it is silkier and a little richer that way, at about 1 instead of 29.
How much goes on a burger?
About a tablespoon and a half per burger, spread on both halves of the bun so every bite gets some.
Alternative
Per
- Calories
- 123
- Protein
- (16%)
- 5 g
- Fat
- (41%)
- 6 g
- Carbohydrates
- (43%)
- 14 g
- of which sugar
- 10 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 481 mg
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Computed from the ingredients with our published formula, not yet kitchen-tested. How
As written, 321 kcal goes into the pot and 260 g of ingredients comes out as about 260 g of food: 123 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water and energy density is the score's biggest lever, so the dish is scored as cooked, not as an average of its parts. Every ingredient links to its food page, with the same data and score. The label's percentages are each macronutrient's share of the calories. The full formula.