INSIDE: Looking for copycat recipes to make at home? These fan favorites from Chipotle, Cracker Barrel, Starbucks, and more are easy to make!
My family loves going out to eat. The kids are thrilled to pick whatever they want from a menu and not be limited to what Mom has made for dinner that night. (I enjoy going out to eat as well … until the bill comes!)
One way I’ve started saving money is by making my family’s favorite restaurant dishes at home. I bet your family has favorite meals to eat out, too. Now you can say goodbye to paying lots for those fabulous flavors with our list of the best copycat restaurant recipes you can make at home, for much less.
WHAT IS A COPYCAT RECIPE?
Copycat recipes to make at home are when people find a way to re-create the same soup, salad dressing or meal they love to order when eating out — but at home. It takes a lot of time, trial and error to re-create a restaurant recipe to get it to taste as close to the original as possible. Fortunately, copycat recipe chefs have done all the work for us!
COPYCAT RECIPES TO MAKE AT HOME
Here are some of our absolute FAVORITE restaurant copycat recipes that taste just like the original, including a Starbucks copycat recipe for lemon pound cake, a Cinnabon cinnamon roll recipe, an Olive Garden salad dressing recipe and a Panera broccoli cheddar cheese soup recipe. The homemade version of each is super easy to make right in your own kitchen (and lots cheaper).
PF Chang’s Chicken Lettuce Wrap
Chick-fil-A Cookies & Cream Milkshake
Applebee’s Oriental Chicken Salad
Cheddar’s Croissant Bread Pudding
Texas Roadhouse Rolls & Butter
Olive Garden Chicken Gnocchi Soup
Texas Roadhouse Rattlesnake Bites
Olive Garden Pasta e Fagioli Soup
KFC Original Recipe Fried Chicken
FINAL THOUGHTS
That’s a pretty nice list right? Definitely tons of my favorites there, and probably some of yours as well. It’s so nice to have copycat recipes to make at home because you can whip up your favorite dish any time you want without spending an arm and a leg. enjoy!