Copycat recipes for home cooked "restaurant meals"

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Make your favorite dishes at home

Going out to McDonalds or to Burger King can be an expensive business, especially if you have a few kids with you.

There is an alternative though.  You can make your favourite dishes yourself. You will be surprised how easy it is to cook great meals in your own kitchen, after you learn the secrets.

Once you master some of the secrets you can save yourself time and money by cooking your own restaurant meals at home.

 This lens gives you a few resources to get you started.

 

You need to make sure you have a few basic ingredients in your pantry, then you will be able whip up authentic standards like Olive Garden Salad Dressing, Olive Garden Alfredo Sauce or KFC Coleslaw.

Perhaps you'd like to try something from Applebee's or Black Kettle. This lens will give you some pointers.

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America's Most Wanted Recipes from secretrecipes.net

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Wendy's Spicy Chicken Fillet Sandwich 

In 1969, at age 37, Dave Thomas quit his job at Arthur Treacher's to start the first Wendy's in Columbus, Ohio. While other hamburger chains at the time were using frozen beef and mass producing food, Dave Thomas developed an innovative way to make fresh, made-to-order fast-food.

Here is the secret to Wendy's Spicy Chicken Fillet Sandwich.

Ingredients:

7 cups vegetable oil
1/3 cup Red Hot Pepper Sauce
2/3 cup water
1 cup all-purpose flour
2 1/2 teaspoons salt
4 teaspoons cayenne pepper
1 teaspoon coarse ground black pepper
1 teaspoon onion powder
1/2 teaspoon paprika
1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
4 chicken breast fillets
4 plain hamburger buns
8 teaspoons mayonnaise
4 lettuce leaves
4 tomato slices

1. Preheat 7 cups of oil in a deep fryer to 350 degrees. You could
also use a heavy skillet and fry in small batches. For a healthier
version, broil the chicken in the oven
2. Mix the pepper sauce and water in a bowl.
3. Combine the flour, salt, cayenne pepper, black pepper, onion
powder, paprika and garlic powder in a different bowl.
4. Pound each of the chicken pieces until about 3/8-inch thick.
Trim if necessary to help it fit on the bun. For easy cleanup,
place the chicken in a zip bag before pounding.
5. Coat each piece with the flour, then roll it in the watered down
pepper sauce. Coat the chicken again in the flour mixture and set
it aside. Repeat for other fillets.
6. Fry the chicken for 10 minutes or until they are brown and
crispy. Remove the chicken to paper towels to drain.
7. Prepare each sandwich by grilling the face of the hamburger buns
on a hot fry pan. Spread 2 teaspoons of mayonnaise on each bun.
8. Place a tomato slice on the mayonnaise, then stack lettuce on
top of the tomato.
9. On the bottom bun, place one piece of chicken.
10.Assemble and serve warm.

Serves 4

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Olive Garden's Fried Mozzarella
Ingredients:
16 oz Package of Mozzarella Cheese
2 Eggs Beaten
1/4 C. Water
1 1/2 C. Italian Bread Crumbs
1/2 tsp. Garlic Salt
1 tsp. Italian Seasonings
2/3 C. Flour
1/3 C. Corn Starch
Preparation:
If your cheese is in a brick, slice it thick, and cut the cheese crossways to make
triangles. Beat the eggs with water and set aside. Mix the bread crumbs, garlic
salt, and Italian seasonings and set aside. Blend the flour with corn starch and
set aside. Heat you vegetable oil for deep frying to 360 degrees. Dip cheese in
flour then in egg wash and then coat with bread crumbs. Place carefully in hot oil
and fry until golden, this takes just a few seconds so watch carefully. When
golden remove from hot oil and drain.

*Serve with your favorite Italian Spaghetti Sauce and enjoy.

Olive Garden Bruschetta al Pomodoro
4 medium tomatoes
6 to 8 fresh basil leaves, chopped
8 slices crusty bread
2 to 3 cloves garlic
6 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
Salt (as needed)
Pepper (as needed)
Chop tomatoes, season with salt, pepper, chopped basil and oil. Grill bread,
brush with garlic and top with tomatoes

You can get hundreds of recipes just like this in the
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Pattie Hensley and Carol Decker spent months perfecting copycat recipes from national chain restaurants and bakeries

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Sally Stone, a seasoned restaurant professional, recreates over 50 items from restaurant menus across America.

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Top Secret Recipes: Creating Kitchen Clones of America's Favorite Brand-Name Foods (Penguin Viking Plume General Books)

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Some more copycat recipes 

Orange Chicken
ORANGE CHICKEN

6 Chicken breasts -- boned and skinned
1/2 tsp Ginger
1 tsp Salt
Pepper
8 oz Frozen concentrate orange juice
1 1/2 cups Shredded coconut
2 cups Orange segments or canned, mandarin oranges
2 Green onions, chopped

Put chicken, ginger, salt, pepper and frozen orange juice in crock
pot and cook on low 6 hours. Serve chicken on hot cooked rice on
platter.

Top with coconut, orange segments and green onions. Serve chicken
liquid in gravy boat, if desired.

Serves 6

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