Copycat restaurant recipes, often called top secret recipes, are revolutionizing home cooking everywhere. The recent influx of recipes has really made cooking more fun for me. I enjoy cooking most of the time, but cooking things that I've had in restaurants really enthuses me. It is just plain fun when your food turns out as good or better than your favorite restaurant.Yes, that is true.

There are really quite a lot of CopyCat recipes Restaurants really do not want you to have! These recipes are exact replicas of all the well loved restaurant dishes. You can make these right at home and take all the glory for it, not the chef. Once you have tried them you will agree that they are super easy and tasty.Copycat restaurant recipes let you fix meals that only cost a fraction of the price of the restaurant dishes. If you're trying to cut down expenses, cooking your own restaurant dishes will save you a lot of money. A meal of pasta alfredo will only cost three to four dollars for a family of four as opposed to thirty dollars or more at a restaurant.

Here is a freebie to get you started!

Copycat Cheesecake Factory Chicken Madeira Recipe

This dish consists of sauteed chicken breasts covered with fresh asparagus, melted mozzarella cheese and a fresh mushroom Madeira sauce. It is best served with mashed potatoes.

Ingredients for the chicken:

* 1 tablespoon olive oil * 4 boneless, skinless chicken * breast fillets * 8 asparagus spears
* 4 mozzarella cheese slice

Ingredients Madeira sauce:

* 2 tablespoons olive oil * 2 cups sliced fresh mushrooms * 3 cups Madeira wine * 2 cups beef stock
* 1 tablespoon butter
* 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper

Method chicken:

1. Place chicken breasts between plastic wrap and pound to 1/4-inch 2. thickness; season with salt and pepper. 3. Heat oil in saute pan; add chicken and saute 4 to 6 minutes per 4. side, until lightly browned; remove from pan and wrap in foil to
5. keep warm.

Method Madeira sauce:

1. Using the same pan, over medium heat, add 2. 2 tablespoons oil and heat; add mushrooms and saute for 2 minutes. 3. Add Madeira wine, stock, butter and pepper; bring to boil, reduce 4. Heat; simmer about 20 minutes or until sauce has reduced to 1/4 of
5. its original volume and is a dark brown color.
6. Meanwhile, bring a half saucepan of water to a boil; add salt;
7. return to boil; add asparagus and boil 3 to 5 minutes.

Immediately transfer to a bowl of ice water to stop the cooking process.

* The asparagus should be cooked crisp-tender. * Transfer cooked chicken to baking pan; top with mozzarella * cheese and broil 3 to 4 minutes or until light brown spots begin to * appear on the cheese.
* To serve, arrange 2 breasts on each plate, top each with 4
* asparagus spears and spoon 3 to 4 tablespoons of Madeira sauce over
* each.

This recipe serves four

Well, this is one of my CopyCat recipes that restaurants have nightmares about. Enjoy! Copycat recipes actually do taste as good as the restaurant dishes. You will be pleasantly surprised with the results.