Five Tips to Get Your Favorite Restaurant Recipes

Five Tips to Get Your Favorite Restaurant Recipes
By Lucy Becker

You can make the same food that your favorite restaurant makes - at home!!

Have you ever wished you could make the same delicious food that you buy at Applebees or Chillis or any of your other favorite restaurants like Chris Steaks and IHOP and Outback Steakhouse. There are ways you can get the same thing to eat at home and probably pay less.

That same delicious meal that you eat at your favorite restaurant can be duplicated by trying a few of these different ideas.

1. Sometimes you can buy the recipe from the restaurant off their website or by asking the waiter for a copy of the recipe. Some things aren't as complicated as we first think they are. That delicious food might just be a few unique ingredients or cooked a certain temperature. Just asking can sometimes get you the recipe. Or just looking or asking on the internet. Some chefs are flattered to have people ask for their recipes.
2. Another way to get the same delicious food that you eat at Applebees or Chillis or other restaurants is to reverse engineer it. If you get take out food and take it home you can make a game out of guessing what is in the food. Some people are really good at figuring out tastes. If you are one of these people or know one of these people, you can probably figure out how to cook the same food this way. Often you can get hints from your waitress by asking what is in it because you or someone in your family has food allergies.

The menu might give you most of the ingredients when you are ordering the food. Write down what you read on the menu or what the waitress says is in the food. Writing down everything you find out about it is a good idea while the delicious food is still on your mind. Taking a photo of it with your camera when you are served is also a good idea. We often forget some of the main ingredients or the look of it before we get around to trying to make it at home.

If you eat at the restaurant several weeks in a row and get to know the waitress, you may be able to prove that you love this item and they may be prone to help you figure out what is in it.

3. Sometimes you can't get the recipe easily so you may have to ask other customers or your friends and relatives who eat at this same restaurant how they think the food is made. Flattering the waitress or chef by telling them how good the food is will usually get you some of the ideas of how to make it.

4. Also some chefs actually have cooking classes. The chef will charge for the class and cook a meal which everyone will have the chance to taste. You could give the chef ideas for what things you would want him/her to cook. Once again, it is important to take notes because many of the key tips are not written on any handouts.

5. Some restaurants sell their specialties in grocery stores, like Mo's clam chowder - Ivar's clam chowder - Marie Calendar's pies. Keep your eyes open for this food.

reade more... Résuméabuiyad

Applebee's Secret Recipes Video

Here's a secret restaurant recipes video demonstration of Applebee's Fiesta Lime Chicken Recipe.

reade more... Résuméabuiyad

Pizza Uno's Deep Pan Chicago Style Pizza Recipe

In 1943, when Ike Sewell opened a restaurant at the corner of Ohio Street and Wabash Avenue in Chicago, Americans ate pizza primarily as a snack. Ike figured that if you combined some of Italy's old, authentic recipes with impressive quantities of the finest meats, fresh cheeses, ripe vegetables and flavorful spices, pizza would become a hearty meal. It was the start of an American tradition - the Chicago Deep Dish Pizza. Ike's Original Deep Dish Pizza has been imitated many times, but never quite duplicated.

In the mid-1990s, Uno® broadened its concept to encompass favorite dishes that diners expected from a high quality, full-service restaurant. To expand the menu and meet increasing customer expectations, Uno completed a multi-million dollar kitchen upgrade in its restaurants, installing sauté stations, grills and fryers, and invested heavily in the training of its front and back of the house staff.

The new Uno Chicago Grill locations are larger and feature a "Chicago warehouse" look that creates an inviting dining environment. These new prototype restaurants continue to generate above-average sales volumes.

Pizza Uno's Deep Pan Chicago Style Pizza

Ingredients:

CRUST

• 1 cup warm tap water -- (110 to 115 degrees)
• 1 package active dry yeast
• 3 1/2 cups flour
• 1/2 cup coarse-ground cornmeal
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 cup oil
  

FILLING

• 1 pound mozzarella -- sliced
• 1 pound sausage -- removed from the casing and crumbled
• 1 can whole tomatoes - (28 oz) -- drained, and coarsely crushed
• 2 garlic cloves -- minced
• 3 teaspoons dried oregano (or 5 fresh basil leaves, shredded)
• 4 tablespoons freshly-grated Parmesan cheese
  

Cooking Directions:
Crust:

1. Pour the warm water into a large mixing bowl and dissolve the yeast with a fork.
2. Add 1 cup of flour, all of the cornmeal, salt, and vegetable oil.
3. Mix well with a spoon.
4. Continue stirring in the rest of the flour 1/2 cup at a time, until the dough comes away from the sides of the bowl. Flour your hands and the work surface and kneed the ball of dough until it is no longer sticky.
5. Let the dough rise in an oiled bowl, sealed with plastic wrap, for 45 to 60 minutes in a warm place, until it is doubled in bulk. Punch it down and kneed it briefly.
6. Press it into an oiled 15-inch deep dish pizza pan, until it comes 2 inches up the sides and is even on the bottom of the pan.
7. Let the dough rise 15 to 20 minutes before filling.
8. Preheat the oven to 500 degrees.
9. While the dough is rising, prepare the filling.
10. Cook the crumbled sausage until it is no longer pink, drain it of its excess fat.
11. Drain and chop the tomatoes.
12. When the dough has finished its second rising, lay the cheese over the dough shell. Then distribute the sausage and garlic over the cheese.
13. Top with the tomatoes. Sprinkle on the seasonings and parmesan cheese.
14. Bake for 15 minutes at 500 degrees. Then lower the temperature to 400 degrees and bake for 25 to 35 minutes longer.
15. Lift up a section of the crust from time to time with a spatula to check on its color. The crust will be golden brown when done.
16. Serve immediately.
    

This recipe yields 6 servings.

reade more... Résuméabuiyad

Macaroni Grill's Farfalle Di Pollo Al Sugo Bianco Recipe

Ingredients:

ASIAGO SAUCE

• 4 cups heavy whipping cream
• 1/8 teaspoon chicken paste or dried chicken base
• 1 1/4 cups asiago cheese
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• 2 ounces water
  

FOR THE PASTA

• 1/2 stick butter
• 1/2 cup diced red onions
• 1/2 cup pancetta (Italian spice-cured bacon) -- chopped
• 1 tablespoon chopped garlic
• 3/4 cup chopped green onion, tops only
• 3/4 pound sliced grilled chicken
• 2 pounds cooked farfalle (bow-tie pasta)
• 8 ounces heavy whipping cream
• 1 tablespoon chopped parsley
  

Directions:

1. To make the sauce: Heat cream to very hot and just bubbly (but not a boil).
2. Add chicken base and cheese.
3. Stir constantly with a wire whip and bring temperature back to just bubbly.
4. Dissolve cornstarch in the cold water and add to sauce.
5. Bring to a slow simmer to cook out starch.
6. Transfer sauce to a container, cover and refrigerate until needed.
7. To make the pasta dish: saute red onion in butter for a few seconds then add pancetta and garlic.
8. Add chicken, green onions and pasta.
9. Deglaze the pan with the cream.
10. Add asiago cream sauce.
11. Heat thoroughly.
12. Garnish with parsley and serve.
    

This recipe yields 4 servings.

reade more... Résuméabuiyad

Chicken (Murg) Dum Biryani Recipe

Chicken Dum biryani(biriyani) though being elaborate in preparing, is a sinfully tasty and very well savored recipe. It is found in all parts of India, Pakistan, Afganistan and other countries and forms an integral part of their cuisine. This recipe here is the popular Hyderabadi chicken biryani.

The word Biryani is derived from the Persian word berya(n) which means "roasted" or "fried". Legend has it that a Nawab of Punjab wore a matching turban for each variety of biryani. The Nizam's kitchen boasted of 49 kinds, which included biryani made from fish, quail, shrimp, deer and hare. Now lets get started!

Chicken Dum Biryani Ingredients:

• Chicken - 1k.g/2.2lb
• Basmati Rice - 1k.g/2.2lb
• Onions - 6 medium sized (long thinly sliced)
• Tomato - 6 medium sized (chopped)
• Ginger Garlic paste - 1 cup or 6-8 tablespoons
• Mint (Pudina) - 1 bunch
• Coriander (Cilantro) - 1/2 bunch
• Green Chili - 6 nos (Whole)
• Lemon - 1 medium sized
• Red Chili powder - 1 1/2 tablespoon
• Oil - 250ml
• Curd or yogurt - 1 to 1 1/2 cup
• Turmeric powder - 1/4 teaspoon
• Bay leaves (Biryani leaf) - 1
• Cinnamon (Patta) - 6 nos
• Cloves (Lavang) - 8 nos
• Cardamom (Elaichi) - 4 nos
• Salt - 3 tablespoons (Powdered) or 2 handful (rock salt)

Preparation Time:30 minutes
Cooking Time:1 1/2 hours
Servings:6-8 people

Cooking Method for Chicken Dum Biryani:
Biryani Masala or Gravy:
1. In a heavy bottomed deep pan, heat the oil on medium heat.
2. Add bay leaves, 3 cinnamon, 4 cloves, 2 cardamom, 6 chillies and onions.
3. Fry the onions until golden brown.
4. Add ginger-garlic paste and fry until the raw pungent smell of the paste leaves.
5. Keep aside a hand full of Mint and add the rest to the pan. At this stage add the coriander as well. Fry for 5-10 minutes until you get a nice aroma.
6. Now add the chicken and mix the content of the pan thoroughly.
7. Add turmeric powder and 1 1/2 tablespoon of salt. Mix well and cook for 5 minutes.
8. Add tomatoes to the pan and cook until it gets soft and mushy.
6. Now is the time for curd (yogurt) and chili powder.
7. Cover the pan with a lid, reduce the heat and cook for 10-15 minutes until you see some oil floating on the top.
8. At this stage remove the pan from the heat.
9. Now empty nearly 3/4 of the pan contents into a separate container and set it aside.

Rice Preparation:
1. Soak the basmati rice in cold water for 15 minutes.
2. Meanwhile take a large container with sufficient water. Bring it to boil.
3. When boiling add the remaining mint, cloves, cinnamon and cardamom.
4. Now drain all the water from the soaked rice and add it to the container. Add 1 1/2 tablespoon salt.
5. Cook the rice until it is 3/4 done.
6. Now take the container off the heat and drain the remaining water from the rice.

Layering the Biryani and Dum cooking
In the same pan where you had 1/4 of the biryani gravy, add a layer of cooked rice. Then add another layer of the biryani gravy (that was keep aside in a seperate container) and top it with rice. Repeat until all the rice and biryani gravy is layered. Also squeeze or add a little bit of lemon juice on every layer during the layering process.

'Dum' cooking is a traditional method of slow-cooking, normally on a bed of coal with pots over them, sealed with kneaded flour so that no heat escapes it. Sometimes coal is spread out on the pot lid to distribute heat evenly.

To get the same effect as the traditional method of dum cooking, take a right fitting lid for the vessel, cover and seal the lid with heavy object. The idea is to make a air tight seal. Alternatively you can knead the wheat flour and use that to seal the lid to the vessel. Now put the the vessel on low heat and cook for approximately 15-20 minutes.

That's it! Spicy hot Hyderabadi Chicken Dum Biryani is now ready to be served and enjoyed.

reade more... Résuméabuiyad

Black Bean Tortilla Lasagna

Black Bean Tortilla LasagnaVegetarian version of layered enchiladas.

reade more... Résuméabuiyad

Not enough recipes? see the older posts!

I have seen some people having trouble to access the large collection of cat food recipes that is available in this website, I would like to explain once again that this is a BLOG! that means that only a certain number (6 in this case) of the latest posts/recipes is shown in the homepage, but if you scroll the page all the way down, you will notice a link that says "see older posts", then you find more tasty homemade cat food recipes.
Another way to do that is to pick directly the recipe that you like from the links on the right of the page, ..
I hope this helps!

reade more... Résuméabuiyad