Chef Pablo’s Restaurant Recipes

Chipotle Mexican Grill describes their Barbacoa as a spicy shredded beef slowly braised in a chipotle adobo, cumin, garlic, cloves and oregano. It’s a delicious and flavorful beef that will can be used for a number of entrees including tacos, enchiladas and more.

In Mexico, barbacoa is traditionally cooked in a pit and buried for hours with moist dirt.  It’s often part of a wedding celebration and will be made with goat meat.  If you want a nice twist on one of my favorite restaurant recipes, substitute pork roast for the beef.  You can actually make them at the same time and offer up a nice variety.
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Chipotle Mexican Grill Barbacoa Burritos

Chili’s™ calls this an eggroll but it’s actually a “flauta” which is a rolled up taco made with a flour tortilla. These are wonderfully flaky and can even make an entire meal if you do up a double batch.  This is one of those great restaurant recipes you can serve for the Sunday football tradition or make up an extra large number of them for a Superbowl finger food everyone loves.

A wonderful smokey chicken flavor with black beans, corn and a bit of spinach all with creamy melted jalapeno jack cheese. Chili’s serves this with a creamy avocado ranch dipping sauce.  It’s probably going to take you a bit longer to prepare these then you think, but it’s certainly worth the effort.  Make sure you leave plenty of time in your schedule to pre-freeze your egg  rolls before you fry them up.  Oh, and if you’re watching your fat intake, you can back these in the oven.  I just coat them with a few shots of cooking spray.  Of course, the most authentic are when you indulge in the pleasure of frying them.
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Chili’s Southwestern Eggrolls

Applebee’s™ has one of the best tasting onion soup restaurant recipes around. The combination of the sweet onions, the piping hot broth and the crunchy bread with melted cheese on top is pretty close to cooking genius.  If you can’t imagine a soup made up of onions, change your mindset and give this one a shot.  A soft flavor combined with the strands of melted cheese are heaven on earth.

One of the secrets to making a good tasting onion soup is how you cook the onions themselves.  Go slow and don’t rush it.  An onion is a root vegetable, which means it’s sugar content is very high.  Anytime you’re cooking something with sugar in it, you run the risk of making it bitter by burning the sugars.  Same holds true for onions.  Slowly cook these and don’t let them brown.  You’ll want them soft and translucent.

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Applebee’s™ Baked French Onion Soup Recipe