Chef Pablo's Restaurant Recipes

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

This is one of the most popular restaurant recipes from Olive Garden™. This is a spicy sausage and bacon soup with russet potatoes and greens in a creamy broth.

If you substitute cauliflower for the potatoes, you can make a great low-carb Atkins friendly soup that will taste exactly like the original restaurant recipe from The Olive Garden™.  Another option would be to cook this up in a programmable crock pot with the pre-cooked sausage and backon in there.  It will be ready for you when you get home.  Just add the kale and cream before serving.

Serve this with a nice basket of Olive Garden™ Breadsticks and their house salad. A wonderful lunch or dinner meal for you and your family.
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Olive Garden™ Zuppa Toscana Soup Recipe

On a cold winter night, you can make up a batch of the hearty soup for dinner. There’s nothing like the aroma of this soup when you walk in the house from a cool evening out.

Olive Garden™ Minestrone soup not only tastes amazing, it leaves you feeling quite full. One of the most searched for restaurant recipes, you’ll be proud to serve this to your family or friends. This isn’t the quickest recipe, but it’s definitely worth the effort.

I heard the real secret on this is to add a bit of red wine to the stock.  I didn’t put that into the “official” recipe, but you can feel free to experiment.
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Olive Garden™ Minestrone Soup Recipe

The first Olive Garden™ opened in 1982 in Orlando Florida. Today there are over 145 locations around the country.

Most of the newer Olive Garden™ locations are designed to look like a farm house in Castellina in Chianti, Tuscany on the grounds of the Rocca delle Macie winery.

Olive Garden™ is most famous for their bottomless bread baskets. But, my suggestion is GO EASY on those so you have room for what’s to come. Delicious pasta, soups and salads at a price you afford to enjoy often. Bring your kids because every kid I know loves pasta.

If you’re looking for some restaurant recipes that you’re kids are going to beg for night after night, you’re in the right place. I would even solicit a little help from them and let them receive a few of the accolades.

Alfredo Sauce
This recipe does NOT include garlic powder or cream cheese. This is the real deal as far as I can tell. Regardless, this is a recipe your family will rave about.

Minestrone Soup
This soup not only tastes amazing, it leaves you feeling quite full. One of the most searched for restaurant recipes, you’ll be proud to serve this to your family or friends.

Zuppa Toscano Soup
One of the most popular restaurant recipes from Olive Garden™. This is a spicy sausage and bacon soup with russet potatoes and greens in a creamy broth.

Caprese Flatbread
A light and crispy flat bread with a nice chunky tomato mixture, topped with mozzarella and Parmesan cheeses.  It’s reminds me of a very fresh and natural tasting pizza.

Bread Sticks
If you’re not careful you could end up eating WAY too many of these bread sticks on your next trip to The Olive Garden™. Famous for their “bottomless basket” of bread sticks, a meal at The Olive Garden™ isn’t complete without a few of these in your belly. Best part, it’s extremely easy to make.

House Salad
A cool crisp salad with a great tangy dressing makes this a great way to start your meal.  Fresh tossed at your table with Parmesan cheese grated right there on your salad.  With everything being prepared at your table, it’s one of the most anticipated salads you’ll eat.

Sangria
Looking for how to make Olive Garden sangria? Look no further.  The Olive Garden™ Sangria is a refreshing alcoholic beverage that’s perfect for any outdoor party.

When you walk into an Outback Steakhouse™, you’ll find boomarangs on the wall, stuffed crocodiles, didgeridoos and maps of Australia. You’ll also find menu items named after cities in Australia. Does it taste like Australian food? I have no idea. I’ve never been to Australia.

Outback Steakhouse™ really made a name for itself with their “Bloomin’ Onion”. It’s rare for restaurant recipes to actually have a product on late night TV, but that’s what happened with the Bloomin’ Onion. You could order a special tool to make your onions “bloom” as well.

Recipes:

Alice Springs Chicken
Grilled chicken breast topped with bacon, honey mustard sauce, sautéed mushrooms, Monterey Jack and Cheddar. Normally served with Aussie Chips.

Bloomin’ Onion
This is what put Outback Steakhouse™ on the map. You might want to buy a special tool to cut these just right.

Chopped Blue Cheese Salad
This Outback salad is an amazing mix of sweet candied pecans, creamy blue cheese, soft butter lettuce along with red leaf and iceberg. A very simple restaurant recipe you can make often.

Ranch Dressing
This is a rich and creamy dressing that starts with Hidden Valley Ranch powder dressing mix. You can change it up a bit if you like your dressing a little on the spicy side.

Potato Soup
I have scoured all of my resources and found a very close, if not exact, copy of the Outback Steakhouse potato soup recipe.  This comes straight from one of the former cooks at Outback.

Gold Coast Coconut Shrimp
Tender crispy shrimp in a beer batter with a light flaky coconut coating on the outside.  Delicious with the tangy tart flavors that come in the Creole marmalade.

Grilled Shrimp on the Barbie
Slightly seasoned and delicately grilled shrimp served with their signature remoulade sauce.  This is one of the most popular appetizers at Outback Steakhouse.

Remoulade Sauce
A rich and creamy sauce with just enough zip from the horseradish. Serve this with the Grilled Shrimp on the Barbie or their Pan Seared Lump Crab Cakes.

Bushman Bread
This is a fantastic dark bread with a delicious crunchy crust.  Server it warm from the oven and delight your guests.

Wallaby-Darned
The way the Outback™ describes it is like this: “Down under frozen wonder with peaches, DeKuyper Peachtree Schnapps, champagne, Smirnoff Vodka and secret mixers.”