Photo: McDonald'sMcAloo Tikki
The proof that the most popular McDonald’s burger in a country can have no meat at all. A crisp patty of spiced potato and peas, the kind of thing sold at street stalls across India, with a sweet tomato mayo, onion and tomato. It is cheap, crunchy, soft inside and properly seasoned, and most people who try it wish they could order it at home.
The story
When McDonald’s opened in India in 1996 it faced a problem no other market posed: most customers do not eat beef, and many do not eat pork. The menu had to be rebuilt from scratch around chicken and vegetarian food, and the potato tikki, a snack every Indian customer already knew, became the heart of it.
What’s inside
- spiced potato and pea patty
- tomato mayonnaise
- onion
- tomato
- bun
Make it at home
My copycat first, then everything I built on top of it.- My copycat
McDonald's McAloo Tikki (Copycat)
The McAloo Tikki on YouTube
Everyone who has cooked, copied or taste-tested it on camera.
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Nobody sells more burgers. McDonald’s began as a single drive-in run by Richard and Maurice McDonald in San Bernardino, California, and became a burger machine in 1948, when the brothers threw out most of the menu and rebuilt the kitchen like a production line. Ray Kroc, a salesman who sold them milkshake mixers, started franchising it in 1955 and later bought the brothers out.
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