By 1988, Boston Market's goose was cooked, and the company filed for bankruptcy. Soon McDonald's stepped in to purchase the company, with the idea of closing many of the stores for good, and slapping Golden Arches on the rest. Now most of the work is done, and you're standing in front of the gate to salad heaven. And so delicious you'll swear it's the real thing!Â, Exclusive signed copy. If you have a 1-pound can of crabmeat, you can save the leftover 1/2-pound for another recipe or double-up on this one. The sauce is the secret, and it's quick to make right on your own stovetop. This way you'll get slightly browned macaroni & cheese that looks like it posed for the nicely lit photo on the Stouffer's box. It blends the flavors of potatoes, kale, and Italian sausage in a slightly spicy chicken and cream broth. Today the chain has over 87 stores across the country, and consistently ranks number one on the list of highest grossing single stores for a U.S. restaurant chain. So Bob cut a bun into three slices, rather than the usual two, and stacked on two hamburger patties along with lettuce, cheese, and his special sauce. If you can't find a ham steak, you can slice up some deli ham. If you're lucky enough to taste one of these doughnuts just as it comes around the corner from the glazing, you're in for a real treat—the warm circle of sweet doughy goodness practically melts in your mouth. Now you’ve made wings like a Wingstop pro. Just roll the dough into a 10x15-inch rectangle before slicing. Check out my recipes for McDonald's hot mustard, sweet and sour, sweet chili, and Szechuan sauces.  Source: Top Secret Recipes Unlocked by Todd Wilbur. Pie making is where the chain excels. Source: Even More Top Secret Recipes by Todd Wilbur. That revolutionized Chili's." Masterpiece barbecue sauce is the same as when it was first created in good ole Kansas City, USA. This recipe was our #1 most popular in 2019. It's time to clone America's best-selling brand of instant macaroni & cheese. Meanwhile, here's a find: pizza sticks that are made from dough that is proofed, fried, and then broiled. Source: Top Secret Recipes Unlocked by Todd Wilbur. It's that sort of dedication that creates fabulous dishes like this popular soup. Long ago I published my first hack of the famous formula, but the recipe, which was based on research from "Big Secrets" author William Poundstone, includes only salt, pepper, MSG, and flour in the breading, and not the blend of eleven herbs and spices we have all heard about. "Take your chips for a dip in this top-secret Chili's skillet queso copycat recipe that comes to your table in a small cast iron skillet along with a big bowl of tortilla chips. This hack Girl Scout cookie thin mint recipe uses an improved version of the chocolate wafers created for the Oreo cookie clone in the second TSR book More Top Secret Recipes. Now you'll be well on your way to delicious Cheddar Bay. If you can't find fresh chicken tenderloins (the tender part of the chicken breast), you can usually find bags of them in the freezer section.Â. The hams are delivered to each of the 300 HoneyBaked outlets already smoked, but without the glaze. And don't worry—I didn't leave out an ingredient. Get everything in a pot and let it simmer. Click here for more of your favorite Girl Scout Cookies. Menu Description: "Our appetizing cheese dip with seasoned beef. Or just leave that ingredient out. When the doughnuts are perfectly puffed up, they're gently dumped into a moat of hot vegetable shortening where they float on one side until golden brown, and then the machine flips them over to cook the other side. Thanks Todd, Product has been added to your cart, Exclusive signed copy. Now, how about some fries and a milkshake to complete the meal. permanence, and stability. Source: Even More Top Secret Recipes by Todd Wilbur. The book that started the copycat food craze! After days of nibbling through what amounts to a small flock of hens, I'm happy to bring you this amazing cloned version of this fast food phenomenon so that you can now reproduce it in your own kitchen. As it turns out, a Texas-size muffin tin, which has cups that are about twice the size of a standard muffin tin, is the perfect pan for this. These sauces are very thick, almost like dressing or dip, so we'll use an emulsifying technique that will ensure a creamy final product where the oil won't separate from the other ingredients. Friday's Crispy Green Bean Fries, Buca di Beppo Chicken Limone, Serendipity 3 Frrrozen Hot Chocolate, P.F. Just think of all the famous sandwiches you can make at home. Lightly grill the faces of the bun. Fire up the barbecue or indoor grill for the chicken and cook up a little white rice to serve on the side. Update 11/16/17: You can make an even better clone using a chocolate product that wasn't available when I created this recipe. Adding ketchup is up to you, although it's not an ingredient found in Maid-Rite stores. One company spokesperson told Spirit magazine, "I remember walking into one of the restaurants after we added them to the menu and all I could see were whisps of steam coming up from the tables. 6. Sure, it's a good start, but there's more to Chili's spicy cheese dip than that. The frying adds a unique flavor and texture to the dough that you won't get with traditional pizza. A little more experimentation with this sauce, some mayonnaise and a couple of other ingredients, and I eventually had an awesome re-creation of the delicious dipping sauce that can be served with home-baked onion rings, poppers, French fries, or as a really great hamburger spread. Use ground pork found at the supermarket—make it lean pork if you like—or grind some up yourself if you have a meat grinder. America's best copycat recipes! It's this secret process that helped Krispy Kreme become the fastest-growing doughnut chain in the country.Â. This dish is a big favorite of Olive Garden regulars. To copy Taco Bell's most famous burrito at home you first must assemble the meaty foundation of many of the chain's top-selling products: the spiced ground beef. When your Olive Garden lemon cream cake recipe is assembled, stick it in the fridge for a few hours, and soon you'll be ready to serve 12 slices of the hacked signature dessert. When you need a quick breakfast pastry or late-night snack, simply remove a melt from the pan, microwave for 35 seconds, or until hot (this is how McDonald's heats it, too), and you're instantly teleported to cinnamon roll paradise. In 1964 John Y. Check out my collection of KFC clone recipes here. Source: Even More Top Secret Recipes by Todd Wilbur. For the best quality dough, you just need all-purpose flour. Linkifier.com is an amazing multihost service that allows you to download as a premium user at fast speeds from all major one click hosters including uploaded, rapidgator and filenext with just one premium account! As for the rumor that you must soak the fries in sugar water to help them turn golden brown, I also found that not to be necessary. On my CMT show Top Secret Recipe I chatted with Winston Shelton, a long-time friend of KFC founder Harland Sanders. 9. Source: Top Secret Recipes Unlocked by Todd Wilbur. This special side may not always be on the menu at your local Outback Steakhouse. Then a bit of Cheddar cheese is added to give the sauce a perfect Cheddary sharpness like the original. Source: "Top Secret Recipes Unlocked" by Todd Wilbur. If you don't have one of those, you can use a heavy skillet or a large saute pan. I've duplicated many popular dishes from Cheesecake Factory. Source: Even More Top Secret Recipes by Todd Wilbur. Whip out the food processor and fire up the grill because you'll need these essential tools to clone one of the best restaurant salsas in the business. That's why you bought those extra cookie sheets, right? I like when the rice is thrown onto the hot hibachi grill and seems to come alive as it sizzles and dances around like a bunch of little jumping beans. Source: More Top Secret Recipes by Todd Wilbur. Source: Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 3 by Todd Wilbur. Look at what F. W. Rueckheim started. Don had a butcher shop in his basement where he cut and ground all his beef. Served with coleslaw." In 1992, huge food conglomerate PepsiCo paid over $70 million for a 70 percent share of the company-just eight years after Larry and Rick started the company. Source: Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 2 by Todd Wilbur. Company spokesperson Laurie Schalow told the Associated Press that KFC has never seen such a huge response to any promotion. Now it's sold in a variety of flavors. 5. They're usually pretty cheap. Source: Top Secret Restaurant Recipes by Todd Wilbur. Try out this simple clone for a dish that's served along with several of Applebee's entrees. This is the basic formula, but you can freely adjust it to suit the tastes of your crew. One letter states: "You evidently have not ever had a Maid-Rite. Source: Top Secret Restaurant Recipes by Todd Wilbur. Ingram borrowed $700 to open a hamburger stand in Wichita, Kansas. Most of the work here is just chopping stuff up, including a small ham steak which you can find where the bacon is sold in your market. The only way to enjoy this now Dead Food is to clone it. First things first, we need to start with very strong coffee. Ingram chose the name White Castle because "white" signified purity and cleanliness, while "castle" represented strength. Be sure to use freshly shredded Cheddar cheese here, since it melts much better than pre-shredded cheese (and it's cheaper). But unless you grow your own jalapenos, it may be difficult to find the riper red variety in your local supermarket. Not a lot, just enough to keep the meat moist. Put one tortilla, butter side down, in the hot pan. Slice the cheese in half and place a piece on each of the bottom buns. The secret to great crab cakes starts with great crab. Find the smallest chicken you can for this KFC grilled chicken copycat recipe, since KFC uses young hens. So, if you like both of those, you'll love this. And even though they’re referred to as “dry rub” wings on the menu, the secret to a perfect hack of the chain’s lemon pepper wings is in the wet baste that goes on first. Part of the secret for great adobo sauce is toasting whole cumin seeds and cloves and then grinding them in a coffee grinder (measure the spices after grinding them). For this recipe, the green jalapeno peppers will work fine if you can't find the red ones. There are more than 12,000 Burger Kings in 61 countries these days, and after French fries, onion rings are the second-most popular companion to the chain's signature Whopper sandwich. Check out how simple it is to clone a whopping four dozen onion rings from one onion, using this triple-breading process. These exclusions didn't seem to matter because the real secret in making these doughnuts look and taste like the original lies primarily in careful handling of the dough. It's a simple recipe that makes a finished product so tasty you'll have to beg someone to take it away from you before you finish the whole bowl by yourself.  I excluded the malted barley flour and modified food starch from the Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut recipe since these are difficult ingredients to find. Look for a ham that is pre-sliced. In addition to great spicy fried chicken, Popeyes serves up wonderful Southern-style buttermilk biscuits that we can now easily duplicate to serve with a variety of home cooked meals. It's similar to a traditional hamburger, but the ground beef is not formed into a patty. Source: Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 3 by Todd Wilbur. Yum. If you're one of those who prefer a higher-octane, spicier chili, just use more canned chipotles, or add some of the delicious adobo sauce that's in the can with the chilies.Â. While frying chicken wings is no real secret—simply drop them in hot shortening for about 10 minutes—the delicious spicy sauces make the wings special. Back in my lab, no matter how hard I examined the meat in the original product—which was shipped to me in dry ice directly from Don Taylor's original store in Marshalltown, Iowa—I could not detect Coca-Cola. Starbucks makes sure its tasty baked goods are fresh by contracting with local bakeries to produce cakes and scones and muffins from the coffee chain's top secret specs. The lemon pepper won’t stick to the wings without making them wet, and that’s where the sauce, or baste, comes in. After dissolving sugar in the coffee, chill it, and then add it to ice cream, ice, and milk in a blender, and get it going. It's chock-full of lentils and other good bits of vegetables and herbs, plus there are big chunks of spicy Italian sausage in every bite. Best of all, Carrabba's sausage and lentil soup recipe is a cinch to clone. Friday's Cajun Shrimp and Chicken Pasta, KFC Extra Crispy Fried Chicken (Improved), Check out the video demonstration of this recipe, Buffalo Wild Wings Buffalo Wings and Sauces, Olive Garden Italian salad dressing recipe, Burger King's Zesty Onion Ring Dipping Sauce, Hard Rock Cafe Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup, 2 Mrs. Paul's breaded fish portions (square). After braising about 30 pounds of chuck roasts, I finally discovered the perfect Chipotle Mexican Grill barbacoa burrito copycat recipe with a taste-alike adobo sauce that fills your roast with flavor as it slowly cooks to a fork-tender delicacy on your stovetop over 5 to 6 hours. If you don't have a grill pan or a grill plate, you can just sear the chicken in any large oven safe saute pan. So, we'll invite some cold butter along on the trip -- with grated Cheddar cheese and a little garlic powder. To copy Taco Bell's most famous burrito at home you first must assemble the meaty foundation of many of the chain's top-selling products: the spiced ground beef. One of the tastiest dipping sauces that you can choose with your order of Chicken McNuggets is this sweet-and-sour creamy Dijon mustard. The Elias Brothers, a Michigan-area franchiser for many years, purchased the Big Boy name from Marriott in 1987, and today is the sole Big Boy franchiser worldwide. Popeyes Famous Fried Chicken and Biscuits has become the third-largest quick-service chicken chain in the world in the twenty-two years since its first store opened in New Orleans in 1972. Source: Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 2 by Todd Wilbur. Served with warm tostada chips. Â. Includes eight (8) 79¢ recipes of your choice each month! Simple. It was only three years later that Ochoa got the attention of bigwigs at Dennys, Inc., who offered him $11.3 million for his U.S. operations. Mission accomplished. In the late 1800s Henry John Heinz established the slogan "57 Varieties," which you can still find printed on Heinz products even though the company now boasts over 5700 varieties in 200 countries. As with my KFC Original Recipe hack, we must first brine the chicken to give it flavor and moisture all the way through, like the real thing, then the chicken is double breaded and deep-fried until golden brown. In addition, they also have milkshakes, floats, and cheesecakes to satisfy your sweet tooth. If it's not, use this Outback Steakhouse sweet potato copycat recipe to satisfy your craving. You've got a hankerin' for pancakes or biscuits, but the recipe calls for Bisquick, and you're plum out. Decisions, decisions. Why did the chicken cross the Pacific? There's no sweetness to the meat at all, although the buns themselves seem to include some sugar. Next, your server hops over to the frozen soft serve machine and fills the cup the rest of the way with ice cream. Leave a margin of an inch or so all the way around. After mixing the filling we'll let it sit for a bit while waiting for the oven to preheat. Otherwise you'll have to slice it yourself with a sharp knife, then the glaze will be applied. 3. Fire up the barbecue or indoor grill for the chicken and cook up a little white rice to serve on the side. Then, one at a time, each ham is then coated with the glaze—a blend that is similar to what might be used to make pumpkin pie. As in, there were no triple patties with bacon or extra secret sauce. Okay, so I'm easily amused.This Benihana Japanese fried rice recipe will go well with just about any Japanese entree and can be partially prepared ahead of time and kept in the refrigerator until the rest of the meal is close to done. If you don't have one of those, you can easily transfer the casserole to a baking dish after it is done cooking on the stove. Foolproof. This recipe is guaranteed to be as delicious and messy as the original. His idea was to create an efficient outlet that could serve freshly made cinnamon rolls in shopping malls throughout the country. Check out my other clone recipes here. How about some of those famous Boston Market side-dishes to go with your copycat  meatloaf recipe?  Â. That's why you bought those extra cookie sheets, right? This will make the chicken moist all of the way through and give it great flavor. When I heard about all the commotion over this new secret recipe I immediately locked myself up in the underground lab with a 12-piece bucket of the new grilled chicken, plus a sample I obtained of the proprietary seasoning blend, and got right to work. Now you can re-create the spicy kick of the original with a secret blend of spices in the chicken's crispy coating. Light golden brown and crisp as a quesadilla should be. Source: Top Secret Recipes Unlocked by Todd Wilbur. Even though it's now owned and produced by the Clorox Company, Original K.C. Source: Even More Top Secret Recipes by Todd Wilbur.Try my improved version in Top Secret Recipes Step-by-Step. Source: Even More Top Secret Recipes by Todd Wilbur. Another e-mail reads: "Having lived in the Midwest all of my life and knowing not only the owners of a Maid-Rite restaurant but also many people who worked there, I can tell you that one of the things you left out of your recipe is Coca-Cola. Okay, so I'm easily amused.This Benihana Japanese fried rice recipe will go well with just about any Japanese entree and can be partially prepared ahead of time and kept in the refrigerator until the rest of the meal is close to done. In 1969 he opened the first Cracker Barrel just off Interstate 40 in Lebanon, Tennessee, offering gas, country-style food, and a selection of antiques for sale. This irresistible collection of cloned recipes is the product of years of obsessive research by self-confessed convenience-food addict Todd Wilbur. If you're looking for something to please both the pumpkin and pecan lovers, try my clone for pumpkin pecan cheesecake from Cheesecake Factory.  Source: Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 2 by Todd Wilbur. In 1946 Jerome launched a new restaurant called Jerry's and it was a booming success, with growth across the country. Add your favorite hot sauce for a bit of heat, or clone a Taco Bell hot sauce, such as the Taco Bell Fire Border Sauce with the clone recipe here. Butter toffee is a good example, so that's what I've reverse-engineered for you here. Chang's clone recipes here.  Source: Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 2 by Todd Wilbur. Source: Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 2 by Todd Wilbur. Just a few days later, a plump little six-year old named Richard Woodruff came into the diner and charmed Bob into letting him do odd jobs in exchange for a burger or two. McCormick’s is lemonier than Wingstop’s blend, and Lawry’s version is chunkier and less lemony, but either blend is close enough to deliver a satisfying clone. No longer shall you find it necessary to beg for extra packets of this sauce with your next box of cluck chunks. Menu Description: "Our famous pumpkin pie has just the right amount of spice." One-quarter of all meals served today in American restaurants come with fries; a fact that thrills restaurateurs since fries are the most profitable menu item in the food industry. After the wings are fried, baste them with the sauce below and sprinkle them with your favorite lemon pepper. The talented chefs at Benihana cook food on hibachi grills with flair and charisma, treating the preparation like a tiny stage show. I first created the clone for this Cajun-style recipe back in 1994 for the second TSR book, More Top Secret Recipes, but I've never been overjoyed with the results. Source: Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 2 by Todd Wilbur. If your chicken parts are on the large side, they may not cook all the way through in the 12 to 15 minutes of frying I’m specifying here. This recipe makes a pretty big loaf. Once you've got the crab grabbed you need to pick up some panko. This is your tartar sauce. Winston pulled me aside and whispered this secret to me when he thought we were off-camera, but our microphones and very alert cameramen caught the whole thing, and we aired it. Angel hair pasta is tossed into the pan along with a healthy dose of fresh scampi sauce. Pair these buttermilk biscuits with KFC's mac and cheese recipe and the famous KFC Original Recipe Chicken, and skip the drive-thru tonight!Source: Top Secret Recipes by Todd Wilbur. Decisions, decisions. Source: Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 2 by Todd Wilbur. Soon a slew of imitators hit the market with their own giant-sized burgers: Bun Boy, Brawney Boy, Super Boy, Yumi Boy, Country Boy, Husky Boy, Hi-Boy, Beefy Boy, Lucky Boy, and many other "Boys" across the burger-crazed country. Find more cool copycats here. Bob thought it was the perfect name for his new burger, except the name was already being used as a trademark for another product. Oh, and one other thing to remember when making crab cakes: be gentle. 7. McDonald's Big Mac, the world's best-known burger that came more than 30 years later, was inspired by Bob Wian's original creation. Don't stir the crab too much into the other ingredients. I normally never make a change to a recipe the first time I try it but I did with this one only because I do not eat jalapenos anymore but I substituted chopped chilies from a can. Source: Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 2 by Todd Wilbur. 2. This irresistible collection of cloned recipes is the product of years of obsessive research by self-confessed convenience-food addict Todd Wilbur. Under the gooey melted provolone of the original version you get from Applebee's is a unique round crouton that's made from bread that looks like a hamburger bun. Now, with this Top Secret Recipe, you can make creamy macaroni and cheese that tastes like Kraft's original at a fraction of the price of the real thing. Today Chili's serves more than 2 million pounds of fajitas a year. The problem with making biscuits using Bisquick is that if you follow the directions from the box you don't end up with a very fluffy or flakey finished product, since most of the fat in the recipe comes from the shortening that's included in the mix. But you don't care, because it's Saturday and you still get all of Sunday to heal. When you're ready to enter, simply grill the chicken, assemble your salads and open wide. A popular recipe that's been circulating calls for combining Velveeta with Hormel no-bean chili. When the doughnuts finish frying, they ride up a mesh conveyor belt and through a ribbon of white sugar glaze. This clone recipe re-creates three varieties of the famous roll sausage that you form into patties and cook in a skillet. Source: Even More Top Secret Recipes by Todd Wilbur. Just know that each brand (Duncan Hines, Pillsbury, etc.) When that time comes, just add milk and eggs for pancakes or waffles, or only milk if it's biscuits you want. Now, what's for dinner? Check out my other Micky D copycat recipes here. You could, of course, reduce this thin mint recipe by baking only one-third of the cookie dough for the wafers and then reducing the coating ingredients by one-third, giving you a total of 36 cookies. Only seven years later, in 1971 Heublein, Inc., bought the KFC Corporation for $275 million. Source: Even More Top Secret Recipes by Todd Wilbur. Look for the jalapeno "nacho slices" in the ethnic or Mexican food section of the supermarket. Kale Vegan Shumi Ramen: I love how Shumi Ramen offers vegetarian and vegan options because it is very hard to find a ramen shop that offers vegetarian or vegan friendly bowls. In 1991 Kentucky Fried Chicken bigwigs decided to improve the image of America's third-largest fast-food chain. The TV exposure led to acting roles for Jimmy, as a regular on Daniel Boone, and in feature films, including his debut in the James Bond flick Diamonds are Forever. They called their first place T.J. Applebee's Edibles and Elixirs, and soon began franchising the concept. Menu Description: "Lightly-dusted, stir-fried in a sweet Szechwan sauce." This super simple Chili's salsa recipe can be made in a pinch with a can of diced tomatoes, some canned jalapenos, fresh lime juice, onion, spices, and a food processor or blender. www.TopSecretRecipes.com A mixture of mayonnaise and barbecue sauce was a good starting point, but with so many varieties of barbecue sauce on the market, I had to figure out which came closest to the flavor of the original Campfire Sauce. I increased the pumpkin to 19 ounces (or 2 1/2 cups) to better fill the crust. And both taste and guilty pleasures are just like the real thing. Source: Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 3 by Todd Wilbur. This 160-unit casual Mexican chain makes a nice tableside guacamole that you can easily duplicate for your amigos. It may not be listed on the menu, but this is Applebee's most ladled soup each and every day. Click on the "Table of Contents" link (underneath the book graphic on the left) to see the full list of recipes in this cookbook.