Outback Honey Wheat Bread Copycat Recipe
A soft honey-and-molasses wheat loaf coloured with cocoa, rolled in oats. Two and a half hours, mostly rising.
Cooking Outback Steakhouse at home, and what its menu costs
A blooming onion, a dark honey-wheat loaf, and a spice blend that goes on everything.
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The Outback Steakhouse recipes on this site
Not every menu item has a recipe here, and that is deliberate - We write a page when there is something genuinely worth saying about how to make the thing.
Outback Steakhouse Bloomin' Onion Sauce Copycat Recipe
A horseradish mayonnaise with a real kick, plus the onion technique it was designed for. Five minutes for the sauce.
What Outback Steakhouse food actually tastes of
The brown bread is coloured with cocoa and molasses, not rye. A tablespoon of cocoa in a wheat loaf is the trick.
The onion needs a genuinely sharp knife and cold water. Twelve to sixteen cuts, then twenty minutes in iced water to make the petals open.
The seasoning is paprika, cayenne, oregano and a lot of black pepper. It doubles as a steak rub, and it is close enough to a Cajun blend that the Five Guys seasoning on this site does the same job.
The dipping sauce is horseradish, not chilli. That is what gives the late, nasal warmth rather than a front-of-tongue burn, and it is a close relative of Burger King's Zesty sauce with more assertiveness.
The brown bread is small on purpose. Four little loaves rather than one large one, pulled apart rather than sliced, served warm with whipped butter - butter beaten until it has nearly doubled in volume, which spreads on soft warm bread without tearing it.
About Outback Steakhouse
Outback's Australian branding is famously an American invention - founded in Tampa in 1988 by four men who had never been to Australia, working from what they had gathered from Crocodile Dundee. It is one of the more shameless pieces of theme-restaurant construction in the industry and it worked completely.
The kitchen turns out two items with a genuinely devoted following, and neither of them is Australian either.
The brown bread is the better recipe and the more interesting one. It is a honey-and-molasses wheat loaf coloured with cocoa powder - which is what makes it that near-black shade, and which almost nobody guesses. A tablespoon of cocoa in 450 g of flour contributes no chocolate flavour whatsoever and an enormous amount of colour. It is a straightforward bake, it fills a house with a very good smell, and it costs about twenty pence a loaf.
The Bloomin' Onion is a project rather than a recipe - a large onion cut into twelve to sixteen radial petals, soaked in iced water until they open, dredged and deep fried whole. It is knife work more than cooking, and it is spectacular enough to be worth the afternoon once. The horseradish mayonnaise served in the middle of it is worth knowing independently and is very good on a steak sandwich.
The steaks themselves are competently done and are not the reason anybody writes about this chain.
What Outback Steakhouse charges, from the menu we hold
49 priced options across 75 menu sections, as last recorded in Thailand. Prices move and vary by outlet, so treat these as a reference point rather than a quote.
Half the menu sits between $7.99 and $27.95. Here is the whole spread:
| Position | Item | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest priced item | $1.99 | |
| Middle of the menu | $13.99 | |
| Dearest priced item | $55.00 |
Outback Steakhouse changes its prices without telling you. We read this menu once a month and keep the reading – have the changes emailed to you, free, one click to stop.
Every reading we hold is on the Outback Steakhouse price history. The full list is on the Outback Steakhouse menu page, and the 2 items we have rebuilt at home are listed here.
What Outback Steakhouse charges in 7 countries
The same item, priced from each country’s own menu and converted to one currency so the columns can be read against each other. Outback Steakhouse sets prices per market, so a gap here is the chain’s pricing rather than an exchange rate artefact – and the widest gap on this list is Baby Back Ribs, which costs $52.95 in the dearest market and $20.22 in the cheapest.
| Item | 🇺🇸 USD | 🇦🇺 AUD | 🇨🇦 CAD | 🇸🇬 SGD | 🇵🇭 PHP | 🇭🇰 HKD | 🇹🇭 THB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $44.95 | $32.06 | $29.44 | $28.81 | $23.84 | — | $40.19 | |
| $33.99 | $32.76 | $28.03 | $37.40 | $27.82 | — | $41.68 | |
| $23.99 | $24.39 | $16.83 | $21.79 | — | — | $17.84 | |
| $52.95 | — | — | $20.22 | $21.46 | $34.91 | $20.82 | |
| $9.99 | $12.52 | — | $11.63 | $5.55 | — | $11.59 | |
| $18.69 | — | $12.27 | $7.73 | $8.73 | — | $11.29 |
Only items Outback Steakhouse prices in at least 5 of the markets we hold are listed, because a row with three figures in it is a gap rather than a comparison.
What Outback Steakhouse sells nearly everywhere
Ranked by how many of the markets in our price data carry the item with a published price. This is computed from the menu tables, so it reflects what the chain actually sells rather than what it advertises.
| Menu item | Markets priced | Recipe |
|---|---|---|
| RIBEYE | 6 | - |
| NEW YORK STRIP | 6 | - |
| Baby Back Ribs | 5 | - |
| CHOCOLATE THUNDER FROM DOWN UNDER | 4 | - |
| ALICE SPRINGS CHICKEN® | 4 | - |
| Classic Mojito | 4 | - |
| Aussie Cheese Fries | 4 | - |
| NO RULES PASTA | 3 | - |
| Outback Center-Cut Sirloin | 3 | - |
| Kookaburra Wings® | 3 | - |
| Typhoon Bloom | 3 | - |
| Bloomin' Fried Chicken | 3 | - |
Build your Outback Steakhouse order, see what it costs
Tick what you would actually order. The total runs as you go, and where we have built the item at home you will see both figures side by side.
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