The secret’s out: 19 copycat recipes

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Want to recreate the taste of your favorite restaurant dishes at home? Well, the secret’s out! We’ve rounded up 19 mouth-watering copycat recipes that will have you feeling like a pro chef in no time.

From fast food favorites to fancy dining dishes, these recipes are sure to satisfy and impress your family and friends. Get ready to discover the secrets behind your favorite restaurant meals with these delicious copycat recipes.

Olive Garden Chicken Gnocchi Soup

Bowl of copycat Olive Garden chicken gnocchi soup in a bowl with breadsticks in the background.
Olive Garden Chicken Gnocchi Soup – Upstate Ramblings.

This Slow Cooker Olive Garden Gnocchi Soup is a fabulous copycat recipe! This creamy soup is the perfect easy-to-make comfort food, full of flavor and a rich broth. Serve this with delicious soup with soft breadsticks, and you won’t even miss the restaurant!
Get the Recipe: Slow Cooker Olive Garden Gnocchi Soup

Copycat Chick-fil-A Sandwich

Prepare a juicy air fryer chicken sandwich at home anytime, with the help of this copycat Chick-Fil-A recipe! When you are craving a crispy chicken sandwich, this recipe is easy to make with simple ingredients.
Get the Recipe: Copycat Chick-fil-A Sandwich

Bonefish Grill Bang Bang Shrimp

This is a copycat recipe for Bonefish Grill’s Bang Bang Shrimp! Using the air fryer makes it a healthier alternative to the famous shrimp appetizer.
Get the Recipe: Bang Bang Shrimp

Taco Bell Cheesy Fiesta Potatoes

Cheesy Fiesta Potatoes. Photo credit: Upstate Ramblings.
Cheesy Fiesta Potatoes. Photo credit: Upstate Ramblings.

This is one of Taco Bell’s most popular menu items, and these addicting potatoes offer everything people love about the original – crispy, spicy potatoes covered with cheesy goodness.
Get the Recipe: Cheesy Fiesta Potatoes

Panda Express Orange Chicken

Everyone will love this tender chicken coated in orange flavor, just like Panda Express Orange Chicken. Each bite is bursting with flavor!
Get the Recipe: Copycat Panda Express Orange Chicken

Taco Bell Nacho Fries Supreme

These are nachos with spicy fries as a base and topped with taco meat, refried beans, nacho cheese, and more for a fun twist on classic nachos that is ready in 25 minutes.
Get the Recipe: Nacho Fries Supreme

Cracker Barrel Cinnamon Roll Pie

Cinnamon Roll Pie. Photo credit: Upstate Ramblings.
Cinnamon Roll Pie. Photo credit: Upstate Ramblings.

Cinnamon roll pie is an amazing breakfast or dessert treat with warm and gooey cinnamon rolls baked inside a flakey pie crust and then covered with a sweet cream cheese frosting!
Get the Recipe: Cinnamon Roll Pie

Taco Bell Mexican Pizza

Crunchy tortillas are filled with taco meat and beans and smothered with gooey cheese and all your favorite taco toppings.
Get the Recipe: Taco Bell Mexican Pizza

Olive Garden Chicken Piccata

Make this simple chicken piccata and listen to the rave reviews that come from family and friends. It feels upscale like you’re eating from a fancy restaurant yet you’re making dinner at home in about 35 minutes!
Get the Recipe: Olive Garden Chicken Piccata

Cracker Barrel Meatloaf

Cracker Barrel Meatloaf. Photo credit: Upstate Ramblings.
Cracker Barrel Meatloaf. Photo credit: Upstate Ramblings.

This Cracker Barrel Meatloaf recipe is the ultimate comfort food! Juicy meatloaf is topped with a mouth-watering glaze that will have you coming back for seconds.
Get the Recipe: Cracker Barrel Meatloaf

Olive Garden Minestrone Soup

This easy Instant Pot Minestrone soup is perfect comfort food! It is a quick, easy and nutritious one pot meal the entire family will love.
Get the Recipe: Olive Garden Minestrone Soup

Firehouse NY Steamer

Loaded with pastrami AND corned beef, this meaty sandwich gets VIP treatment when you make it at home.
Get the Recipe: Firehouse NY Steamer

P.F. Chang’s Mongolian Beef

Mongolian Beef. Photo credit: Upstate Ramblings.
Mongolian Beef. Photo credit: Upstate Ramblings.

Crispy beef is coated in a sweet sauce, just like you’d get at a P.F. Chang’s, and it is ready in only 20 minutes!
Get the Recipe: Mongolian Beef

Panera Broccoli Cheddar Soup

This Panera Broccoli Cheddar Soup copycat recipe is easy to make in the Instant Pot or other electric pressure cooker. It’s made with simple ingredients and is quick, budget-friendly and delightfully cheesy. Stovetop instructions included.
Get the Recipe: Instant Pot Broccoli Cheddar Soup (Panera Copycat)

Copycat Ruth Chris Stuffed Chicken Recipe

Make this quick and easy Ruth Chris Stuffed Chicken for dinner tonight. Sit down to dine on a restaurant-style comfort food copycat recipe at home. 
Get the Recipe: Copycat Ruth Chris Stuffed Chicken Recipe

Olive Garden Chicken Pasta

Olive Garden Chicken Pasta. Photo credit: Upstate Ramblings.
Olive Garden Chicken Pasta. Photo credit: Upstate Ramblings.

This delicious slow cooker Olive Garden chicken pasta features tender, fall apart chicken that simmers all day in creamy and cheesy sauce!
Get the Recipe: Olive Garden Chicken Pasta

Cracker Barrel Cinnamon Apples

Who doesn’t love the cinnamon apples from Cracker Barrel? They aer a perfect complement to any breakfast or brunch, or enjoy them for dinner. They’re delicious and have the perfect sweet cinnamon glaze that will have you going back for seconds.
Get the Recipe: Cinnamon Apples

Grilled Chick-Fil-A Nuggets

I am addicted to Chick-Fil-A nuggets, but I love to grill, so I’ve made a copycat version of grilled Chick-Fil-A nuggets using two (no longer) secret ingredients to make them extra juicy and well seasoned.
Get the Recipe: Grilled Chick-Fil-A Nuggets

Chilis Southwest Egg Rolls

Southwest Egg Rolls. Photo credit: Upstate Ramblings.
Southwest Egg Rolls. Photo credit: Upstate Ramblings.

Chicken combines with corn, beans, onions, cheese and spicy Tex Mex seasoning for an easy to make homemade egg roll in this Chilis copycat recipe.
Get the Recipe: Southwest Egg Rolls

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