22 Copycat Dinners That Taste Exactly Like Your Favorite Restaurants
There is something so satisfying about enjoying restaurant-quality meals at home. These 22 copycat dinner recipes let you recreate your favorite dishes without leaving your kitchen. Each recipe captures the flavors, textures, and richness of the originals while being simple enough to make on a weeknight. Get ready to impress yourself and your family with meals that taste just like the real deal.
Cheesy Gordita Crunch Tacos
This copycat Taco Bell Cheesy Gordita Crunch recipe is better than at the restaurant because you can make it at home in your pajamas! I like to enjoy them late at night so this saves me a trip out.
Copycat Honey Baked Ham Recipe
This copycat Honey Baked Ham recipe is insanely delicious and will definitely help you save money on your holiday meal. Juicy and tender spiral ham gets extra flavor with a caramelized and sticky layer of butter and sweet honey glaze.
Copycat Olive Garden Pasta e Fagioli Recipe
This Olive Garden Pasta e Fagioli Soup recipe is a great way to make this restaurant favorite at home! This savory soup is full of beans, pasta, and vegetables, making it a hearty and filling meal.
Baked Rigatoni Cheesecake Factory
This copycat Baked Rigatoni from the Cheesecake Factory is easy to make ahead of time for a busy week. Full of creamy Alfredo sauce, rigatoni pasta, and lots of cheese.
Crispy Chicken Fritta (Olive Garden Copycat)
Crispy Chicken Fritta is breaded and fried chicken served over dreamy, creamy fettuccine noodles made with an Asiago cream sauce. It’s a restaurant-quality meal that even the pickiest eaters will love!
Chili’s Chicken Enchilada Soup Copycat
This Chicken Enchilada Soup recipe is filled with tender chicken, green chiles, black beans and sweet corn in a boldly flavored cheesy and creamy broth. Made with simple ingredients, and packed with traditional Tex-Mex flavors, this easy enchilada soup recipe comes together in 30 minutes.
Chicken Thai Salad (Panera Copycat)
This fresh and crunchy Chicken Thai Salad is actually a favorite Panera Bread copycat recipe! Make your own version right at home easily and without spending the money.
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Panera Tortellini Alfredo
Tender, cheese-filled tortellini is bathed in a creamy alfredo sauce in this easy recipe for copycat Panera Tortellini Alfredo. Add some sliced, cooked chicken breast for more protein or serve as is for a delicious meatless dinner option that is sure to satisfy the whole family!
Bang Bang Shrimp (Bonefish Grill Copycat)
Coated in a crunchy panko breading and smothered with a classic sweet & spicy sauce, this Copycat Bonefish Grill Bang Bang Shrimp is an easy main dish or appetizer that can be pan-fried, air-fried, or baked! Serve it over rice or as bang bang shrimp tacos with crunchy cabbage for a tasty meal that everyone will rave about!
Copycat Chick Fil A Mac and Cheese
This Copycat Chick Fil A Mac and Cheese tastes like the real deal, saving you the expense of ordering out while getting to savor all the addictive flavors and textures of this restaurant-quality mac and cheese!
Hibachi Steak And Shrimp (Benihana Copycat)
Enjoy the delectable taste of hibachi cooking with this Benihana copycat hibachi steak and shrimp recipe. This dish features succulent shrimp and a perfectly grilled medium-rare New York strip steak perfect for a weeknight feast. Paired with traditional hibachi-style vegetables and mouth-watering dipping sauces, you can recreate the hibachi experience at home.
Steak Alfredo (Olive Garden Copycat)
This easy Steak Alfredo recipe is a copycat version of the Olive Garden favorite with perfectly seared steak served over a bed of creamy fettuccine pasta topped with a homemade gorgonzola alfredo sauce. It’s incredible and restaurant-quality, but easy enough to make on a weeknight in just about 30 minutes.
Chicken Vino Bianco (Olive Garden copycat)
This Copycat Chicken Vino Bianco is a restaurant quality recipe that’s super easy to make at home.
COPYCAT KFC CHICKEN
Kentucky Fried Chicken…so nostalgic. Served with fluffy mashed potatoes and gravy, creamy cole slaw, and a buttery biscuit makes for yummy memories. This recipe will help you replicate the traditional flavor of KFC and that extra-crispy skin that we all love. Plus we all know that copycat recipes are the best because they are made at home in your kitchen, using ingredients from your own pantry.
COPYCAT BOB EVANS POT ROAST
Copycat Bob Evans Pot Roast is a complete meal made in a Dutch oven. This recipe begins on the stovetop and then transfers to the oven with all of the veggies, making its own gravy. It’s the best way to enjoy Sunday supper comfort food anytime!
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Cincinnati Chili (Skyline Chili Copycat)
Cincinnati Chili can be described as being chili, but it is a unique blend of spices and ground beef, cooked without beans, and typically served atop of a pile of spaghetti noodles with a heap of shredded cheese to finish it off. There is a chain of restaurants that serve it called Skyline Chili, and this recipe is a copycat of their famous unique chili.
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Spicy Southwest Salad Recipe
Spicy, flavorful, crunchy, and delicious. This Spicy Southwest Salad copycat recipe tastes just like the Chick-Fil-A version! Make this easy salad in no time at all for a healthy weeknight meal that everyone will love.
Cast Iron Pan Pizza (Copycat Pizza Hut Pizza Recipe)
Hellooooo crispy, fried crust and a thick, almost focaccia-like puffy interior with all your favorite toppings! This Cast Iron Pan Pizza recipe doesn’t taste just like Pizza Hut: it tastes 1,000x better.
House Salad (Outback Copycat)
This Outback Copycat House Salad with ranch dressing is top notch delicious! Make it just like the restaurant but at home in less than 30 minutes. A creamy homemade dressing with garlicky croutons makes the perfect side dish to any meal.
Chimichurri Rice (Trader Joe’s Copycat Recipe)
Zesty, flavorful Peruvian chimichurri rice that recipe tastes similar to the Trader Joe’s version, but better! It’s made with fresh herbs, red wine vinegar, spices, diced tomatoes, garlic, and onions. To save time, you make the chimichurri while the rice cooks and then stir it in for a pop of freshness. It’s an excellent, flavorful side dish to serve at any meal.
Lobster Risotto
There’s nothing better than this creamy lobster risotto made at home that copies the Gordon Ramsay Hell’s Kitchen recipe. I have always loved the look (and tantalizing taste!) of the creamy risotto rice dish and I have spent MANY hours perfecting this popular copycat recipe for you to make at home.
The BEST Orange Chicken
This sweet & savory Orange Chicken recipe is quick, easy and on the table in less than 30 minutes! Perfect for a weeknight fakeaway (sorry, Panda Express), this version is better for you than the fast food version and uses real ingredients. The whole family will enjoy this copycat Chinese Orange Chicken recipe that is packed full of flavor!
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