| What exactly are the secrets behind America's | | | | frozen bread dough. Once it is thawed and soft, |
| favorite restaurant recipes? Millions of people all | | | | coat your hands with Pam Spray or oil and knead |
| over the country line up at the doors, waiting | | | | the dough. Form the dough into 8 to 10 logs. Let |
| forever in long lines, just to experience the unique | | | | them rise in a warm place until doubled (1-1 |
| taste of these foods. Restaurants such as, Chili's, | | | | ½ hours). Then lightly spray the dough with |
| Applebee's, Red Lobster, Olive Garden, KFC, and | | | | Pam Vegetable Spray. The secret behind the |
| even Burger King and McDonald's profit millions of | | | | great taste is to take garlic powder and finely |
| dollars every day by giving America delicious | | | | rubbed oregano and lightly powder the sticks. |
| meals they can't seem to find else where. What | | | | Preheat the oven to 375 and bake for only 20 to |
| are the secret ingredients that make these foods | | | | 25 minutes. For even softer bread sticks, place a |
| taste so good and cause us to spend so much | | | | pan of water in the oven while baking. This adds |
| money to enjoy? | | | | moisture and keeps your bread sticks from over |
| The truth is there are no secret ingredients in the | | | | browning and getting too hard. |
| recipes of America's favorite restaurants. The | | | | What makes KFC Original Recipe Chicken so much |
| truth is you can make these same dishes in your | | | | better than the chicken we deep-fry at home? A |
| very own kitchen. The only real secret is how to | | | | side from the combination of common ingredients, |
| use a combination of common ingredients, spices | | | | the method of cooking it is what makes all the |
| and herbs, and the method of cooking, in order to | | | | difference. Many people use regular deep fryers |
| get the great taste. | | | | when making fried chicken. If you are attempting |
| Olive Garden's Bread Sticks for instance, what | | | | this with nice plump chicken breasts, the end |
| makes them different from other recipes we | | | | result is a piece of chicken that is juicy deep inside |
| make at home? Most of the bread stick recipes | | | | next to the bone, but hard, crunchy, and over |
| we find in cookbooks suggest you lightly coat the | | | | cooked on the outside. Using a pressurized deep |
| dough with egg whites before baking. This gives a | | | | fryer will make your chicken breast plump, juicy |
| shining look to your bread sticks however; it does | | | | and delicious inside and out. |
| not add to flavor or help the bread sticks come | | | | There are many ways to cook and make |
| out of the oven nice and soft. Other recipes | | | | fabulous meals. Knowing the ingredient |
| suggest dusting the dough with garlic. Still, they | | | | combinations, methods of cooking, and using the |
| are not the same as the one's we experience at | | | | proper tools is what turns ordinary dishes into our |
| Olive Garden. | | | | favorite restaurant dishes. |
| To make Olive Garden Bread Sticks, use a loaf of | | | | |