CoCo Ichibanya
CoCo Ichibanya Curry Rice Copycat Recipe
Short grain rice cooked so it holds its shape under sauce - rinsed, rested and plated as a bank rather than a heap.
Copycat sides from the fast food chains
Fries, wings, bread, slaw and everything beside the main.
Fries, wings, slaw, onion rings, breads and the things that arrive beside the main event. Sides are frequently the item a chain is genuinely famous for - nobody queues for the burger at Five Guys - and they are usually the cheapest thing on the menu to make yourself.
Most of the difficulty in this group is about water. Getting it out of a potato before frying, keeping it out of a coating after frying, and stopping it leaching out of cabbage into a slaw overnight are three versions of the same problem, and each page explains which one it is fighting.
All 15 sides recipes
Domino's Pizza
Domino's Chicken Strippers Copycat Recipe
Breaded chicken strips baked on a rack rather than fried, with a dredge that crisps in a domestic oven. Thirty minute…
Five Guys
Five Guys Cajun Fries Copycat Recipe
Skin-on potatoes, fried twice at two temperatures, tossed hot in Cajun seasoning. The oil is doing more of the flavou…
Jollibee
Jollibee Chickenjoy Gravy Copycat Recipe
A dark roux gravy with soy and more black pepper than seems reasonable. Fifteen minutes.
KFC
KFC Coleslaw Copycat Recipe
Chopped to rice-grain size rather than shredded, dressed sweet and sharp, and left overnight. Fifteen minutes of work.
KFC
KFC Gravy Copycat Recipe
A properly dark roux, chicken stock and a genuinely startling amount of black pepper. Fifteen minutes, and the colour…
KFC
KFC Hot Wings Copycat Recipe
A thin, hard, heavily spiced coating on a small wing. Different from a buffalo wing in every respect that matters.
KFC
KFC Mashed Potato Copycat Recipe
Deliberately softer and smoother than a British mash, seasoned to be eaten with gravy rather than alone. Twenty-five …
KFC
KFC Popcorn Chicken Copycat Recipe
Small pieces, a heavily seasoned dredge and a very short fry. The whole recipe is about not overcooking something tha…
McDonald's
McDonald's Fries Copycat Recipe
Thin-cut, sugar-dipped, twice fried. Genuinely close on texture, and the page says plainly which part cannot be matched.
Nando's
Nando's Garlic Bread Copycat Recipe
A baguette, a compound butter with peri-peri in it, twelve minutes in the oven. About twenty pence a portion.
Nando's
Nando's Macho Peas Copycat Recipe
Crushed rather than mashed, with fresh mint and a lot of chilli. The cheapest side on this site and one of the best.
Nando's
Nando's Spicy Rice Copycat Recipe
Yellow, studded with peppers, and barely hot. Twenty-five minutes and about thirty pence a portion.
Sizzler
Sizzler Cheese Toast Copycat Recipe
Soft white bread, a parmesan butter paste, and a griddle. Four minutes, and it is not made under a grill.
The Pizza Company
The Pizza Company Baked Spinach with Cheese Copycat Recipe
A hot spinach and cheese bake that sets rather than splits, because the spinach is wrung out first.
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