Camp Burger Sauce
Shelf-stable copycat of the orange sauce, mixed in the packet it came in.
- calories
- 190
- weight
- 1.2 oz
- cal / oz
- 158
- protein
- 0 g
- serves
- 4, scales
- prep
- 5 min
- cook
- 0 min
- total time
- 5 min
- water
- none
- cost
- $
Calorie and protein figures are my own estimates, good enough for planning a food bag and not meant as precise nutrition data.
- Snack
- Dinner
- No cook
- Car camping
- Backpacking
- Bikepacking
- Basecamp
- Canoe / raft
- Vegetarian
- Gluten free
- Nut free
- Eat in the bag
- Pre-mix at home
- Shelf stable
- Dump and stir
Ingredients
| Mayonnaise packets | 1/2 cup total | shelf-stable single-serve packets, no cooler needed |
|---|---|---|
| Sweet pickle relish | 2 tbsp | drain the liquid off before packing |
| Yellow mustard | 1 tsp | packets work |
| BBQ sauce | 1 tsp | packets work |
| Apple cider vinegar | 1 tsp | |
| Garlic powder | 1/2 tsp | |
| Onion powder | 1/2 tsp | |
| Paprika | 1/4 tsp | |
| Salt | 1/4 tsp |
Method
- At home, mix the garlic powder, onion powder, paprika, and salt into one small bag or a spice tube.
- In camp, squeeze the mayo packets into a quart freezer bag. Add the relish, mustard, BBQ sauce, and vinegar.
- Add the spice mix. Press the air out, seal, and work it with your hands until the color is even orange.
- Let it sit thirty minutes if you can. The onion and garlic powder need time to hydrate or they taste like dust.
- Snip a corner of the bag and squeeze it onto whatever you are eating.
This is a condiment, not a meal, and it exists because camp food is usually short on fat and sharp flavor at the same time. Mayonnaise fixes both. Single-serve mayo packets are shelf-stable and small enough that you can carry sauce without carrying a cooler, which is the whole reason this version works on trail.
The home kitchen version sits in the fridge for an hour so the flavors settle. You do not have a fridge, so the rest gets shortened to whatever you can stand while dinner heats. Drain the relish before packing it: the brine is most of its weight and it thins the sauce into something that runs off a tortilla. Mixed sauce keeps a couple of days in cool weather, less in heat, so mix what you will finish.
Packing
Mayo packets, relish in a small screw-top jar or a doubled bag, and the premixed spice bag all ride in one gallon bag. Mixing happens in the freezer bag, so there is no bowl and no spoon to wash.
Variations
- Skip the mayo packets and carry powdered egg-free mayo mix, hydrating it with cold water first. Lighter, but the texture is thinner.
- Ketchup instead of BBQ sauce gets you closer to the drive-thru original.
- Double the paprika and add cayenne if you want it to read as a hot sauce.
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