Food and Drink

We Tried the Ultimate Macca’s Szechuan Sauce Hack, and it Worked

The ultimate McDonald's sauce hack.

mcdonalds szechuan sauce hack

McDonald’s recently launched four new sauces, one of which is the coveted Szechuan Sauce. Although, as with most good things, it has come to end. Macca’s is no longer stocking the beloved Szechuan Sauce, and we weren’t ready to accept its fate. Instead, we decided to recreate the sauce using two other favourite sauces—Sweet N Sour and BBQ.

We realised the Sweet N Sour and BBQ tubs have similar ingredients to the Szechuan, so we put them together. The result was close but not nearly salty enough. That was fixed by adding two soy sauce fish bottles from the local sushi shop.

The end product is not as dark or syrupy as the original Szechuan Sauce, but it certainly tastes the same.

Sure there are copycat Szechuan Sauce recipes out there that will give you an exact match, but if you don’t have the long list of ingredients on hand, our ultimate Macca’s Szechuan Sauce hack works a treat.

Here’s the recipe:

Ingredients:

  • 1 McDonald’s Sweet N Sour sauce tub
  • 1 McDonald’s BBQ Sauce tub
  • 2 Soy sauce fish bottles or 3ml soy sauce

Method:

  1. Mix the above ingredients together and enjoy.

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