Menu Prices AUSausage & Egg McMuffin-Style Breakfast at Home
McDonald's copycat · ⏱ 25 mins · Difficulty: Easy · Serves 2 · By Sophie Bernard
Buttered English muffin, sausage patty, egg cooked in a ring and American cheese. The real Sausage & Egg McMuffin is $7.60, 2,130 kJ. Copycat method adapted from The Big Man’s World and Copycat Restaurant Recipes McMuffin copycats (2026).
The Original
Sausage & Egg McMuffin
Price: $7.60 (pickup)
Energy: 2,130 kJ (509 cal)
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Ingredients
Home-kitchen amounts for 2 — standard home-cooking quantities for this dish, not the chain’s recipe (chains do not publish theirs). Difficulty: Easy.
- 250 g pork sausage mince (or 2 large breakfast sausage patties)
- ½ tsp sage and ½ tsp black pepper (if seasoning your own mince)
- 2 eggs
- 2 English muffins
- 2 slices American cheese
- 1 tbsp butter, plus extra for the muffins
- Salt
Method
- Form the sausage mince into 2 thin patties, wider than the muffins — they shrink as they cook. Fry in a dry pan over medium heat 3–4 minutes per side until browned and cooked through.
- Butter the muffin halves and toast cut-side down in the same pan.
- Lightly oil a 7–8 cm ring mould (or a clean tuna tin with both ends removed) in the pan, crack an egg inside, break the yolk with a fork, add a spoon of water to the pan and cover with a lid. Cook 2 minutes until set.
- Lay the cheese on the hot sausage patty so it starts to melt while you cook the egg.
- Build: muffin base, cheese, sausage patty, egg, muffin top. Wrap in foil and rest 30 seconds so the cheese melts. Tip: butter the muffins generously — that butter is half the McMuffin flavour — and keep the sausage patties thin, or the muffin will not close.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How close is this to the real Sausage & Egg McMuffin?
This is a home-kitchen copycat, not the chain’s recipe — the chain does not publish its recipe. It is built to sit beside the original: the real Sausage & Egg McMuffin is $7.60 for pickup with 2,130 kJ (509 cal). Compare the two before you cook — the home version trades the chain’s equipment for a frypan and an oven.
How long does it take, and how hard is it?
About 25 minutes, rated Easy difficulty, serving 2.
What do I need to make it?
The ingredients are listed below — starting with 250 g pork sausage mince (or 2 large breakfast sausage patties), ½ tsp sage and ½ tsp black pepper (if seasoning your own mince), 2 eggs, and 4 more. Quantities are home-kitchen amounts, written to serve 2.
What does the original cost at McDonald's?
The real Sausage & Egg McMuffin is $7.60 (pickup), 2,130 kJ. Prices vary by location and delivery is higher.
Where can I check the original dish?
On its own dish page — open the Sausage & Egg McMuffin at McDonald's page for the price, kJ and calories.
Is this recipe the chain’s official recipe?
No — no Top 10 chain publishes its recipes. Every recipe on this site is a copycat written from the dish’s published description and the home-kitchen method below, and the comparison box shows the real dish’s price and kJ so you can judge it yourself.
Written & checked by Sophie Bernard
Sophie reads every menu directly from each chain’s official Australian ordering site and records the store and price basis on the page. No price is published without a source.