COPYCAT RECIPES
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Copycat Recipes
Top 100 Copycat Recipes
from your Favorite Restaurants
you can Duplicate at Home
Sasha Sim
Contents
How I Became A Copy Cat Cook
Family meals have always been a big deal at our house. Theres just nothing quite like getting your friends and loved ones together in the dining room to enjoy a tasty, piping hot home cooked meal. I get that some folks love eating out, but for me, you just cant beat a home cooked meal when it comes to cost, health, and really the whole experience! But just like anyone else, I have my favorite foods that I enjoy time to time from restaurants.
My experiencing trying to create copy cat recipes from restaurants began years ago in earnest when I attempted to replicate the Big Mac sauce my kids loved so much. Turns out there was a little more to it than just opening a bottle of Thousand Islands dressings.
With some practice though, I got to be pretty good at reverse engineering popular restaurant dishes. It became something of a legend around our neighborhood after a few get-togethers with friends and neighbors when I wowd them all by producing nearly perfect replicas of some local restaurant favs!
Since then, Ive been hooked on enjoying restaurant meals at home for a fraction of the cost of going out, and with the peace of mind of knowing every ingredient that went into my dish. Sometimes commercial operations need to include chemicals and preservatives that the home cook doesnt, which actually means it is pretty easy to beat a restaurant at their own game by producing a better version of the same food at home. Creative home cooks can also easily add, subtract, and substitute ingredients to make a restaurant dish all their own.
There are so many reasons to be a restaurant copy cat in the kitchen, but when the summer of 2020 hit right as I was finalizing this book, my family suddenly had a whole new reason to appreciate copy cat cooking all the restaurants (and almost everything else) were closed! Even when they reopened, the experience just wasnt the same and the safety risk hardly seemed worth it. Fortunately with my collection of copy cat recipes to rely on, the restaurant in our kitchen never closes and the menu is longer than any restaurant.
Whatever your reasons for copy cat cooking, I hope you enjoy my copy cat recipes. They are the product of much trial and error and each will allow you to cook a faithful representation of your favorite restaurant dishes at home.
Enjoy your next meal at the best restaurant in town your dining room!
Sasha Sim
Breakfast Recipes
Corner Bakery Cafe Chilled Swiss Oatmeal
Serves: 6 / Preparation time: 10 minutes
2 cups old fashioned oats 1 cups skim milk
1 cup plain Greek yogurt 1 apple, cored and cut into small pieces
1 banana, peeled and cut into small pieces 4 tablespoons dried cranberries
1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Pinch of salt cup almonds, toasted and sliced
- In a bowl, add all ingredients except for almonds and gently, stir to combine.
- Cover the bowl and place in the refrigerator overnight.
- In the morning, remove the bowl from refrigerator and gently stir the oatmeal.
- Serve with the topping of almonds.
Per Serving: Calories: 316; Total Fat: 5.1g; Saturated Fat: 1.2g
Protein: 12.1g; Carbs: 52.8g; Fiber: 7.1g; Sugar: 14.4g
McDonalds Egg McMuffin
Serves: 10 / Preparation time: 15 minutes / Cooking time: 14 minutes
4 cups biscuit/baking mix
2 cups cheddar cheese, shredded and divided
1 cup cooked ham, chopped finely
1 teaspoons ground black pepper, divided 1 cups 2% milk, divided
3 tablespoons butter, melted 8 large eggs
1/8 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons butter
- Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.
- In a large bowl, add biscuit mix, 1 cup of cheese, ham and teaspoon of black pepper and mix well.
- Add 1 cup of milk and mix just until just combined.
- Place the dough onto a lightly floured surface and with your hands, gently knead 8-10 times.
- Now, roll the dough to 1-inch thickness.
- With a floured 2-inch biscuit cutter, cut into biscuits.
- Arrange the biscuits onto an ungreased baking sheet about 2 inch apart.
- Brush each biscuit with melted butter and sprinkle with teaspoon of black pepper.
- Bake for about 12-14 minutes or until golden brown.
- Meanwhile, in a bowl, add eggs, remaining milk, salt and remaining black pepper and beat until well combined.
- In a large non-stick skillet, melt butter over medium heat.
- Add egg mixture and cook until all the liquid is absorbed and eggs are thickened.
- Stir in remaining cheddar cheese and remove from heat.
- Remove the biscuits from heat and set aside to cool slightly.
- Carefully, split the warm biscuits in half.
- Place the egg mixture over bottom half of each biscuit.
- Cover with top halves and serve.