Making Dishes from Copycat Recipes

Dying to eat your favorite food at a favorite restaurant but unwilling to pay the high price? Well, no need to fret over the cost of the food. For you can enjoy your favorite restaurant food at a more affordable price than those offered at a restaurant with the help of copycat recipes. Copycat recipes are becoming more popular and popular especially during these hard times. More and more people choose to eat homemade meals instead of going out to dine. These homemade meals can be made from copycat recipes when craving for restaurant food.

Maybe you want to impress someone with your cooking or baking skills. Copycat recipes, also known as clone recipes, can also help you do that. With minimum fuss, you can make meals that are comparable to those in a restaurant. These meals can be made with the same enticing aroma, texture and flavor. You can also introduce changes on the recipes that will give new flavors and twists on familiar meals.

Thousands of copycat recipes can be found on the Internet. Most popular of these are chicken recipes, especially fried chicken recipes. Beverages copycat recipes of Starbucks are also popular. You might think that these recipes are difficult to follow. You’ll be surprised to find out that they are not. Restaurant chefs and cooks are too busy to spend hours on complicated dishes. They make use of their time in making simple and yet delicious dishes. It pays to follow suit.

You can make copycat recipes for a fraction of the price you would usually pay in a restaurant. Not only that, you are also assured of the quality of the dish because you have chosen the ingredients yourself.

Let’s make a copycat Pizza Hut Cavatini to show you how easy it is to make restaurant-quality pasta. Here’s what you will need.

• 1/2 cup grape juice
• 2 lbs ground round
• 4 cups pasta
• 28 oz sliced, stewed tomatoes
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 16 oz jar spaghetti sauce, meat flavor
• 6 oz V8 juice
• 1 ½ packages onion soup mix
• Provolone and mozzarella slices

Here’s how to make copycat Pizza Hut Cavatini:

1. Heat vegetable oil on pan.
2. Fry the ground round until totally brown. Make crumbs using a fork.
3. Turn heat to low.
4. Add grape jelly, stewed tomatoes, spaghetti sauce, V8 juice and onion mix to the pan.
5. Stir to mix everything well.
6. Cook sauce for twenty minutes. Do not let it boil.
7. Cook pasta to al dente.
8. Fill six gratin dishes with alternating layers of sauce, pasta and cheese.

Easy to do, right? So, whenever you crave for your favorite restaurant food but cannot afford the restaurant tag, bring out your copycat recipe and cook to your heart’s delight.