Chef Pablo’s Restaurant Recipes

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

The secret to this recipe is finding the right wine. Finding restaurant recipes is one thing, finding all of the right ingredients can be the biggest challenge.

When making this pasta from The Cheesecake Factory™, don’t just buy any Madeira wine you find.  Make sure you’re using the deep red Madeira wine which has a nice sweet flavor to it.  There are some pink and white Madeira wines with a completely different flavor.  Don’t make the mistake of using those in this pasta dish.  You’ll definitely be disappointed.

Many cooks have experimented with this recipe and I believe I’ve brought together the best of all of them to create a very close copycat of the restaurant recipe. Please comment below if you think this is missing something or could use some improvement.
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The Cheesecake Factory™ Pasta Da Vinci Recipe

This is probably the most secret of all of the restaurant recipes out there.  As a matter of fact, Colonel Sanders build an entire restaurant chain based on his original recipe chicken with 11 secret herbs and spices.

This all started in the little town of “Corbin, Kentucky”.  That’s where Harland Sanders opened up Sanders Cafe, which eventually became Kentucky Fried Chicken™.  For a time in the 90’s they started branding the initials KFC™.  The company has now returned to Kentucky Fried Chicken™, but most people still call it KFC™.

It’s not too tough to recreate the taste of that special coating, but it is difficult to match the juiciness of the chicken.  That’s because Kentucky Fried Chicken™ uses pressure cookers to fry their chicken.  This cooks the chicken fast, reducing the “greasiness” as well as locking in the juice from the chicken.

The recipe below is as close as you’ll ever get at home.  Obviously Harland Sanders didn’t use Italian Dressing or tomato soup packets in his original recipe, but this will give you the exact same flavor.
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KFC™ Chicken Original Recipe