Let stand at room temperature while the grill heats. Lightly oil the grill. Brush the chicken on both sides with the grill seasoning. Cook, with the lid closed as much as possible, turning after 5 minutes, until the chicken is nicely browned and feels firm when the top is pressed with a finger, about 10 minutes total. During the last minute, top each piece with a goat cheese round. Transfer to a platter and tent with aluminum foil to keep warm. Stir in the sun-dried tomatoes and basil. Place 2 chicken pieces on each serving plate.

Spoon equal amounts of the sauce over each serving, sprinkle with basil, and serve hot. Broiled Chicken Bryan: Broil the chicken in a preheated broiler with the rack adjusted about 8 inches from the source of heat. The hack is an easy one. After browning the seasoned beef you add it to the sauce, simmer the sauce until thick, then spread it over one pound of rotini pasta in a baking dish in two layers so that every bite is filled with flavor.

Sprinkle shredded mozzarella over the top and melt it until golden brown under your broiler. No one can resist. You rule. This simple and inexpensive meal will feed eight, and leftovers keep well in the fridge for a couple of days. Menu Description : "Quickly-cooked steak with scallions and garlic. Flank steak is cut into bite-sized chunks against the grain, then it's lightly dusted with potato starch in our case we'll use cornstarch , flash-fried in oil, and doused with an amazing sweet soy garlic sauce.

The beef comes out tender as can be, and the simple sauce sings to your taste buds. I designed this recipe to use a wok, but if you don't have one a saute pan will suffice you may need to add more oil to the pan to cover the beef in the flash-frying step. Chang's secret sauce is what makes this dish so good, and it's versatile.

If you don't dig beef, you can substitute with chicken. Or you can brush it on grilled salmon. I've cloned a lot of the best dishes from P. Click here to see if I coped your favorite. This dessert is an easy one to prep in the restaurant since the cakes are made ahead of time and chilled until ordered.

Once an order comes in the cake is zapped for a minute in the microwave, then topped with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and surrounded by dollops of whipped cream.

You can prepare yours this way at home as well—make your cakes in advance, then chill them until dessert time. Or, you can serve the cakes right after they come out of the oven. Either way works. To make the batter I used a stand mixer with the paddle attachment and it worked great, but a hand-held granny mixer also works.

Find more amazing CPK copycat recipes here. A requirement of any visit to Chicago is eating at least one slice of deep dish pizza in the city that perfected it. Deep dish pizza quickly became a Chicago staple after Ike Sewell and Ric Riccardo opened the first Pizzeria Uno in and served a hearty new style of pizza constructed in a high-rimmed cake pan.

Employees told me the pizza crusts are partially cooked each morning to cut down on the wait time for customers. Before the restaurant opens each day, cooks press the dough into a pan and then sprinkle it with a little shredded cheese. The shells are then partially baked and set aside.

Later, when an order comes in, the pizza is built into one of the par-baked crusts and finished off. This way customers get their food faster, and the tables turn over quicker.

Copying that delicious, flakey crust was the task that took me the longest. After two weeks of baking, I finally settled on a formula that was a mash-up of yeast dough and pie crust and made a perfectly tender deep dish crust, with great flavor that exactly mimicked the original. If you like Uno, you will love this. Regarding the cheese: be sure your cheese is at room temperature, not cold, or it may not melt all the way through.

This recipe will make enough sauce for two pizzas. I just thought you should know that in case you get the urge to make another deep dish after this one disappears. Brined chicken breast fillets are grilled and topped with a lemon butter sauce made with garlic, sundried tomatoes, and capers in this copycat clone that will fool even the biggest Olive Garden fans.

And if you need even more servings, you can easily double up the recipe. Craving more dishes from Olive Garden? Check out my copycat recipes here.

Tangy grilled chicken, sweet Asian chile sauce and dumpling sauce stuffed into crispy wonton shells and topped with a crunchy slaw and cilantro mix. Re-creating this hit appetizer requires cloning four parts; none of which are difficult: Grilled chicken, coleslaw, secret dumpling sauce, and the crispy wonton shell to hold all of it together. The slaw is best when it has some time to sit and wilt a bit, so plan ahead for the best flavor.

Just measure out 4 cups of the cabbage blend and mix it with the minced cilantro and dressing. Just be sure to leave plenty of room in the taco for the delicious fillings to come. I've cloned a lot of dishes from Applebee's. See if I hacked your favorites here.

If you feel like diving into a pile of wings with big flavor and no heat, you'll love this hack of a top pick at Wingstop. At the restaurant, these wings are deliciously doused with a buttery garlic Parmesan baste and then sprinkled with grated Parmesan cheese. A home clone is easy when you toss crispy wings in this hack of the top secret baste and top them with a snowfall of good Parmesan cheese. Parmesan cheese, garlic, and salt are mixed in, then the sauce is set aside to cool and thicken.

Once the wings are fried to a golden brown, toss them with the baste in a bowl, then grab the grated Parm and make it snow.

Check out my other Wingstop clone recipes here. When I next found myself in Orlando, Florida presenting some cooking demos at a home show, I dropped in on Kobe Ichiban for dinner and there it was: the light orange creamy dipping sauce that everyone was raving about. It was sweet and sour and salty and creamy, and it tasted amazing on the shrimp—as well as on everything else. I poured some into some small plastic storage bags I had with me always come prepared!

Find more of my copycat recipes for famous sauces here. I incorporated all those missing ingredients into this new hack recipe, tweaked a few other things, and then tested several methods of braising the beef so that it comes out perfectly tender: covered, uncovered, and a combo. The technique I settled on was cooking the sauce covered for 2 hours, then uncovered for 1 additional hour so that the sauce reduces and the beef transforms into a fork-flakeable flavor bomb.

Just know that a wide noodle works best. Even fettuccine is good here. For the little bit of alfredo sauce spooned into the middle of the dish I went with a premade bottled sauce to save time.

And browse my other Olive Garden clone recipes here. We serve our Chicken Parmigiana with a side of spaghetti for dinner. Give yourself an extra hour for this important marinating step. While the sauce cooks, filling your house with its intoxicating aroma, the chicken is breaded and browned.

When the marinara is done, top the chicken with the sauce and mozzarella and stick it under your hot broiler until bubbling. Hopefully, everyone at your house is hungry, because the Olive Garden dinner portion is two chicken fillets, and this recipe will yield a total of four 2-piece servings. Add a small serving of spaghetti on the side, topped with more of the delicious sauce, and you'll have a perfect match to the restaurant plate.

Can't get enough Olive Garden? Click here for more of my copycat recipes. It's packed with lots of shredded white and dark meat chicken, potatoes, peas, and carrots; all of it swimming in a delicious creamy gravy and topped with a tantalizing flakey crust.

It seems more like homemade food than fast food. And now it can be made at home better than ever before with this improved hack of my original recipe. The crust now has a better flavor more butter!

You can make these in ramekins or small oven-safe baking dishes, or get some recyclable aluminum pot pie pans you can find in many supermarkets. Those pans are the perfect size for four single servings, and they make cleanup easy after the feast. Find more of my KFC copycat recipes here. Now you can make zucchini that tastes just as good, as long as you know the secret step that other fried zucchini recipes miss. It makes all the difference.

The secret is a brine. I found that this fried zucchini tastes best when it takes a salted water bath before breading. In 60 minutes, the salt in the brine is absorbed by the zucchini, spreading good flavor all the way through.

After the brine, the zucchini is rinsed, coated twice with flour and once with seasoned breadcrumbs, and fried to a beautiful golden brown. You can make the recipe all the way through and serve it immediately, or if you want to serve it later, you can par-fry the zucchini and freeze it for several days. After that, when an occasion arises, a couple minutes is all it takes to finish off the dish and serve it.

This recipe makes enough for a small gathering, but you can easily cut it in half for a more intimate hang. Click here for more amazing Carl's Jr. For this banana bread knock-off, I settled on a blend of both baking powder and baking soda for a good crumb and dark crust that perfectly resembles the original. And I decided it best to go big on the dark brown sugar, not only for flavor but also because the extra molasses in the darker brown sugar triggers a helpful leavening boost from the baking soda.

All other copycats I saw got it wrong when it came to the nut blend, so if you want a true clone, this is the hack to bake. I've cloned a ton of drinks and treats from Starbucks. There was still plenty of work to do in establishing ratios and settling on an ideal preparation method. Carne asada is almost always made with flank steak or skirt steak.

A server at Chipotle told me they use skirt steak, which is surprising since that is the tougher of the two cuts. Add the remaining butter 3 tablespoons at a time until all the butter has been added to the sauce.

Season the sauce with salt and pepper, then remove from heat. Serve immediately or store sauce up to 2 hours at room temperature. Keep sauce warm over low heat, stirring often, while preparing the recipe of this recipe. Chicken Bryan Preheat grill to medium-high heat.

Cut each chicken breast into halves, making 8 thin-cut chicken breast pieces. Season chicken with grill seasoning. Then right before you lay the chicken on the grill, brush the chicken breasts with 3 tablespoons of grill baste. Add the chicken to the heated grill, close lid, and cook for 5 minutes. Flip the chicken and cook for another 5 minutes, or until chicken is nicely browned, firm to the touch and the juices are running.

Cook chicken minutes total until it's no longer pink and has an internal temperature of degrees F. During the last minute of cooking, top each chicken with one round of goat cheese. Close grill lid and let the cheese melt for a minute.

Then remove chicken from grill and set on a platter. Place 2 pieces of chicken breast on a plate, for a total of 4 servings. Spoon lemon sauce over each serving, as much as you like. Sprinkle with sun-dried tomatoes and fresh basil. Serve immediately. It's easy and fun. Click here to start your own cookbook! Learn more about the process to create a cookbook -- or Start your own personal family cookbook right now! Here's to good eating!

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