After resting a bit, they get dropped in again until golden brown and crispy. Mix together to chili, cayenne and salt in a small bowl, and toss in the crispy tortilla strips to coat them. That particular ingredient will give you the best clone, but if you cant track it down you can also use regular bouillon cubes. Before he became America's sausage king, Jimmy Dean was known for crooning the country hit "Big Bad John." Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Place the chicken in a roasting pan with the breast facing up, and pour the melted butter over it, trying to cover the entire breast. 200 Ratings. Click here for more of my Chick-fil-A copycat recipes. I also like using El Pato tomato sauce (recipe calls for 1/2 cup) for a bit more heat. Rub the chicken with melted butter and sprinkle with salt and pepper. My Islands Tortilla Soup recipe produces a copycat with awesome flavor and texture, since you'll be making fresh chicken stock from the carcass of the roasted chicken. For a great chicken tortilla soup that doesnt skimp on chicken and comes packed with other goodies like two kinds of beans, corn, chiles, onion, celery, garlic, and cilantro youll want to make my recipe for Chick-fil-As hearty version. Add chicken to pot; cover, and cook until golden brown on underside, 5 to 7 minutes. Preparation. Most of the selections changed every day, but of the three days that I was there, the Mexican chili was always on the menu. Reviewers of Wendys tasty seasoned potatoes point out that the skin-on slices stay crispy even when cool. Today the company is part of the Sara Lee Corporation, and Jimmy retired as company spokesman in 2004. Whisk the eggs with 3 tablespoons of water and a teaspoon of salt and black pepper. If you like, you can substitute turkey breast for the chicken to make turkey chili, which was the soup George Costanza ordered on the show. Step 4: Bake it. Soon McDonald's stepped in to purchase the company, with the idea of closing many of the stores for good, and slapping Golden Arches on the rest. Scoop out the roasting drippings from the small bowl you set aside earlier, and put in a medium- to large-sized skillet and add the onions, carrot, peppers and garlic. The two-stage rising process is also a crucial step in this much requested homemade Olive Garden breadstick recipe. I've cloned some of the best dishes from P.F. It took nine months for Komen and his staff to develop a cinnamon roll recipe he knew customers would consider the "freshest, gooiest, and most mouthwatering cinnamon roll ever tasted." . Add a tablespoon of olive oil to the same skillet and scramble the eggs until they're just set. But on the last day, I got lucky: "One extra-large Mexican Chicken Chili, please." "Beef lovers go crazy over this one at P.F. Use ground pork found at the supermarketmake it lean pork if you likeor grind some up yourself if you have a meat grinder. Even fettuccine is good here. Add the tomatoes, beans, corn, adobo sauce, broth, and kosher salt. Remove the chicken to a bowl and shred it with 2 forks. Transfer to a paper towel-lined plate and season with salt. Try to find San Marzano-style whole canned tomatoes, preferably from Italy. Menu Description: "Quickly-cooked steak with scallions and garlic. Chang's. You can buy premade croutons to use on top of your soup, but Ive also included an easy hack to make black pepper croutons from focaccia or ciabatta bread, just like those you get at the restaurant. Braised Beef Pasta Menu Description: Slow-simmered meat sauce with tender braised beef and Italian sausage, tossed with ruffled pappardelle pasta and a touch of alfredo saucejust like Nonnas recipe.. In the early 90's Boston Chicken was rockin' it. The first bite you take will make you think of a fresh cinnamon roll, and then you cant stop eating it. Add onions, 1/3 cup cilantro, and garlic. The entire process for making this soup which Islands serves in "bottomless bowls" takes as long as 3 hours, but don't let that discourage you. Part of the secret in crafting your clone is the addition of masa harinaa corn flour that you'll find in your supermarket near the other flours, or where all the Mexican foodstuffs are stocked. I sure wish I had one of those awesome tumblers because they speed up and improve the marinating process, producing moist chicken packed with flavor all the way through. My early attempts at hacking my favorite dish at the massive Chinese food chain all resulted in gummy, soggy beef pieces that were more like flat dumplings than the delicious, crunchy strips of joy they were meant to be. Bring to a boil and let simmer for at least 25 minutes. Panda Express manages to keep the crispy beef in Beijing Beef crispy even though it may be sitting for over 20 minutes in the sauce on its way to a hungry you. Olive Gardens chicken is salty and moist all the way through, so we must first start by brining the chicken. When the marinara is done, top the chicken with the sauce and mozzarella and stick it under your hot broiler until bubbling. Drain about one tbsp. Sprinkle with taco seasoning and chili powder and give it all a good stir. Instructions. Check out the other four most unlocked recipes for the year: Panda Express Chow Mein (#1), Qdoba 3-Cheese Queso (#2), Panda Express Fried Rice (#3), Outback Baked Potato Soup (#4). 1 Rating. For many years this entre has been a top menu choice at Maggiano's, the 54-unit Italian chain from Brinker, the same company that operates Chilis Grill & Bar. Heat canola oil in 12-inch skillet on medium-high. Fortunately, I could squeeze in a reservation at the Las Vegas Raos location a few weeks before it closed its doors forever at Caesars Palace in late November 2021. Island's Restaurant is known for their delicious island- and spice-inspired menu. The bigwigs decided it was time to change the name to Boston Market, to reflect a wider menu. I wasnt happy about that, but my dog was thrilled. Sherwood Johnson survived a case of malaria while serving in World War II, which left him with some residual nerve damage and a new nickname: Shakey. If you don't dig beef, you can substitute with chicken. Stir in the ketchup, mustard, and Worcestershire sauce. Sliced chicken breast, romaine lettuce, pico de gallo, tortilla strips, and cotija cheese make up El Pollo Loco's Caesar Salad, but it is the fantastic creamy cilantro dressing recipe that gets the raves. For two years after the first Olive Garden restaurant opened in 1982, operators were still tweaking the restaurant's physical appearance and the food that was served. Jerrico was started by a man named Jerome Lederer, who watched Long John Silver's thirteen units dwindle in the shadow of World War II to just three units. As for the fried tortilla strip garnish that tops the soup, you can go the hard way or the easy way on that step. Use my Boston Market Meatloaf recipe below to copy the same flavor of that first non-chicken dish, a delicious barbecue sauce-covered ground sirloin meatloaf. The salt in the blend will draw water out of the potatoes, magically transforming the dry breading into a wet batter in about 20 minutes. Add 1 Tbsp oil and sautee chopped onion, garlic, and jalapeno until tender. Re-create more of your favorite dishes from Benihana here.Source: Top Secret Restaurant Recipes by Todd Wilbur. The easy way is to grab a bag of the new habanero-flavored Doritos, which happen to be similar in spiciness to the strips used at the restaurant. Dump the whole canned tomatoes and the juice from the cans into a mixing bowl. Set the cooked chicken aside on a platter. Sprinkle chicken evenly on both sides with 1/2 teaspoon of the salt, 1/2 teaspoon of the black pepper, and 1/4 teaspoon of the chili powder. Once the pan is hot, add peppers, onions, carrots, salt, pepper, cayenne and chili powder. That meant replacing signs on hundreds of units and retooling the marketing campaigns. Next time try this one, it's in english, with pictures of every step and it gets the gist of the soup instead of throwing the spice rack at it. Check out more of my famous breakfast food clone recipes here.Source: Top Secret Recipes Unlocked by Todd Wilbur. Now you've just cloned the chain's Loaded Tortilla Soup, and you're a better person for it. Menu Description: Two lightly fried parmesan-breaded chicken breasts are smothered with Olive Gardens homemade marinara sauce and melted Italian cheeses. Most of that time is spent waiting for the chicken to roast (up to 90 minutes -- although you can save time by using a precooked chicken, see Tidbits) and letting the soup simmer (1 hour). This recipe was our #3 most popular in 2019. I anticipated a beef jerky experience, but when I took a bite, I found it to be delicious! If your roast has a thick cap of fat on it, trim off the excess. Pei Wei claims its orange chicken is prepared each day from scratch with chicken that is never frozen, so well craft our clone the same way. My Olive Garden Stuffed Chicken Marsala recipe includes a marsala sauce that even marsala sauce haters will like. This dish owes its great flavor to black bean paste, which is full of umami savoriness, just like soy sauce, so it enhances the taste of everything around it. If you want to make meatballs that taste like the classic original, use my Rao's meatballs recipe below. Add the burgers and cook 5 minutes on each side, until cooked through. This double breading gives the chicken its ultra craggy exterior and extra crunch, which is a different texture than the less crispy original recipe fried chicken thats breaded just once and pressure fried. I eventually settled on a simple wet batter made with seasoned salt, flour, and little cornstarch for crunch to best match the flavor, crispiness, and red/orange tint of the real thing from Americas first pizza chain. The $30 restaurant dish consists of three 2-ounce tenderloin steaks, swimming in a fantastic balsamic cream sauce with sliced portabello mushroomsbut a home version of Maggiano'sBeef Tenderloin Medallions is only seven easy steps away, and it won't hit you in the wallet as hard as the pricey original. Crafting an Olive Gardens signature Lasagna Classico recipe became the perfect opportunity to create a beautiful multi-layered lasagna hack recipe that uses up the whole box of lasagna noodles and fills the baking pan all the way to the top. Try my Benihana Japanese Onion Soup recipe below, and complete the Benihana experience with more of my recipes here.Source: Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 2 by Todd Wilbur. Bring oil to 375 degrees and working in batches, fry tortilla strips until light golden brown and crisp, 2 to 3 minutes. At Benihana this dish is prepared by chefs with precooked rice on open hibachi grills, and is ordered a la cart to complement any Benihana entre, including Hibachi Steak and Chicken. Lets call him Skippy. 3. The marinara sauce used on the chicken is an Olive Garden specialty and no bottled sauce compares, so well make our own from scratch using canned crushed tomatoes and the formula below. This tasty ingredient adds an MSG-like savoriness to Paneras soup, and we can duplicate it by using nutritional yeastoften called "nooch"now found in many stores, including Whole Foods. And when the first rolls gone, you are powerless to resist grabbing for just one more. Looking at the dish my mother ordered I noticed in the . I designed my P.F. Perhaps she was wrong about that? I never thought dinner rolls were something I could get excited about until I got my hand into the breadbasket at Texas Roadhouse. Add the green pepper and the garlic and saut for 2 minutes. This huge chicken chain offers seven delicious dressings to top three salad choices, and this is my current favorite of the bunch. Update 1/9/17: Replace the 10 cups of water with 8 cups of chicken broth for a shorter simmer time and better flavor. This recipe was our #4 most popular in 2021. Unlike those other recipes, I use the same or similar ingredients to those listed on the companys website in my Panera Bread Potato Soup recipe, so you can make the closest replica at home. This Top Secret Recipe makes a lasagna that tips the scale at nearly 10 pounds and will feed hungry mouths for days, with every delicious layer copied directly from the carefully dissected Olive Garden original. The name Wei Better Orange Chicken is a competitive callout to Panda Express's signature orange chicken, which is made with pre-breaded and frozen chicken. Includes eight (8) 79 recipes of your choice each month! Plan ahead to brine your chicken breast for a couple of hours so that it's moist and flavorful. But for it to taste like the Olive Garden signature entree, well need to take some very specific steps. Simmer, uncovered, until quinoa is tender, about 10 minutes. Shakeys became the first franchised pizza restaurant in the U.S., and by 1974 the chain had 500 stores across the U.S. Cut the tortillas into 1/4 to 1/3 inch long strips. The rolls are fresh out of the oven and they hit the table when you do, so theres no waiting to tear into a magnificently gooey sweet roll topped with soft cinnamon butter. Jerrico, Inc., the parent company for Long John Silver's Seafood Shoppes, got its start in 1929 as a six-stool hamburger stand called the White Tavern Shoppe. But that plan was scrapped when, after selling many of the under-performing Boston Markets, the chain began to fly once again. How to make this creamy chicken tortilla soup recipe. Sure, flour is good at thickening, but it doesnt add any flavor, so I found a better way. Bake in the oven at 350 degrees for about 25 minutes. Check out my other clone recipes for CPK soups, salads, and pizza here. Place the strips in the oil so they are not touching, and fry until they have bunched up a little bit and are crunchy. The chicken is made the same way as in my Top Secret Recipe for Chick-fil-A Southwest Chicken Saladits brined for four hours to infuse it with flavor before it gets grilled. Check out the other four most unlocked recipes for the year: Panda Express Chow Mein (#1), Panda Express Fried Rice (#3), Outback Baked Potato Soup (#4), Chipotle Carne Asada (#5). Meanwhile, create the tortilla strips that will top the soup. You can make the dough with a stand mixer or a handheld one, the only difference being that you must knead the dough by hand without a stand mixer. The coleslaw is easy with a dressing thats only five ingredients. Once you've got your potatoes cut, you must rinse and soak them in water to expel the excess starch. I used to like their burgers. Give my Wendy's seasoned potatoes recipe a try. The sauce cooks on low heat, never bubbling, so that it stays smooth and creamy. Then well use bottled sweet chili sauceusually found in your grocery store where Asian foods are parkedto punch up the flavor. My Qdoba 3-cheese queso recipe was our #2 most popular in 2021. You can also make El Pollo Loco Flame Broiled Chicken, pinto beans, Spanish rice and more. In a Dutch oven or large saucepan over medium heat, brown the ground beef in the oil. There are 12 varieties of sauce available to coat your crispy chicken parts at the chain, and I'm presenting clones for the more traditional flavors. This recipe was our #3 most popular in 2021. El Pollo Loco, or "The Crazy Chicken," has been growing like mad since it crossed over the border into the United States from Mexico. When you get a steaming bowl of great tortilla soup plopped down in front of you, it's tough to stop slurping until you hit bottom. To assemble the burritos put a layer of shredded cheese down across the center of a tortilla (about 1/4 cup.) Use the steps below and in about an hour youll have 8 servings of a soup that is a culinary doppelganger to Panera Bread's Baked Potato soup, and at a mere fraction of the cost. Making meatloaf is easy. Employees told me the pizza crusts are partially cooked each morning to cut down on the wait time for customers. This soup works great as a prelude to your favorite Asian dishes or other Benihana clones since it's so light and won't fill up anyone before the main course. Source: Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 2 by Todd Wilbur. If your chicken parts are on the large side, they may not cook all the way through in the 12 to 15 minutes of frying Im specifying here. And I decided it best to go big on the dark brown sugar, not only for flavor but also because the extra molasses in the darker brown sugar triggers a helpful leavening boost from the baking soda. Season with a bit of salt & pepper. But its never just one more. Mix together the tomato passata, 1 tablespoon of the olive oil, and the garlic in a large bowl. Check out the other four most unlocked recipes for the year: Qdoba 3-Cheese Queso (#2), Panda Express Fried Rice (#3), Outback Baked Potato Soup (#4), Chipotle Carne Asada (#5). Saut for 4 minutes, then add the garlic and cook for 1 more minute. In Zagat's 1995 New York City Restaurant Survey, Le Cirque 2000, one of the city's most upscale restaurants, received a 25 rating out of a possible 30. Find my copycat recipes here. Reduce to a simmer for about a half hour. One of their popular dishes is the tortilla soup. Try my Applebee's Chicken Wonton Tacos recipe below, and find more copycat recipes from Applebee's here. Also, its best if you buy cheese by the block and shred it yourself. Check out the other four most unlocked recipes for the year: Rao's Homemade Marinara Sauce (#1), Olive Garden Lasagna Classico (#2), King's Hawaiian Original Hawaiian Sweet Rolls (#3), Pei Wei Better Orange Chicken (#4). Since the braising process takes so long, start early in the day and get ready for a big dinner, because I've also included clones here for Chipotle's pico de gallo, pinto beans, and delicious cilantro-lime rice to make your burritos complete. Instructions. After two weeks of baking, I finally settled on a formula that was a mash-up of yeast dough and pie crust and made a perfectly tender deep dish crust, with great flavor that exactly mimicked the original. For the chicken, well grill a couple of thighs and chop them up. Chicken Tortilla Soup: Preheat a pot with oil over medium-high heat. My version skips that part by adding the raw potatoes directly into the pot with the other ingredients, where they cook in 20 minutes, and the soup is ready to eat in less time than other recipes take just to get the potatoes done. Other recipes will call for some form of broth here, but the broth is unnecessary, and it's not in the real thing so a good clone recipe wouldn't include it. Drizzle the top of the casserole with the extra 1/2 cup dressing, garnish with extra pickles if desired, and serve. Their soup is not only surprisingly good for a fast food chain, but it could also stand up to tortilla soups from any full-service chain, and these preparation secrets will guide you through a spot-on at-home clone. That cheese is slow to melt, so well shred it first, along with the Jack. Its about time for Top Secret Recipes to hack one of Starbucks all-time bestselling baked snacks. "Since Buffalo, New York was too far away, Jim Disbrow and Scott Lowery satisfied their overwhelming craving in 1981 by opening a spicy chicken wing restaurant close to home in Kent, Ohio. Add 1 tbsp oil to a large saucepan or dutch oven over medium heat. Nothing fancy here but a good tasting tortilla soup. Wendys uses a blend of food starches plus rice flour for the breading on their version, but my tests confirmed that cornstarch is all youll need for a great clone of Wendy's seasoned potatoes. Below is my Soup Nazi's Mexican Chicken Chili recipe. Add garlic and cook for 1 more minute. Good thing you can follow my Long John Silver's Batter-Dipped Fish recipe below and enjoy that same great flavor at home. Step 2 Cover and cook on . Instant Pot Chicken Tortilla Soup. If you like lasagna, you're going to love this version. Check out the other four most unlocked recipes for the year: Rao's Traditional Meatballs (#1), Wendy's Seasoned Potatoes (#3), Cheesecake Factory Spicy Cashew Chicken (#4), McDonald's Chicken McNuggets(#5). Copying that delicious, flakey crust was the task that took me the longest. This recipe was our #3 most popular in 2020. Ive included those ingredients as well so that your clone is similarly gluten-free. Or you can brush it on grilled salmon. Add beans, tomatoes, corn and cilantro; heat through. Once you track those down (theyre easy to find online), the berries are combined with thyme and bay leaves in a braising liquid that will transform your own pork roast into an easily shreddable thing of beauty in under 3 hours. Chang's. The home meal replacement chain's stock was soaring and the lines were filled with hungry customers waiting to sink their teeth into a serving of the chain's delicious rotisserie chicken. Give yourself an hour to bake the potatoes and around 30 minutes to prepare the soup. And browse my other Olive Garden clone recipes here. This is an important step for a spot-on hack. Just enter your email. Bring chicken, onion, carrot, garlic, chipotles, jalapeo, and 16 cups water to a boil in a large pot; skim foam from surface. Just like the real Panda Express Chow Mein, the beauty in this re-creation is its simplicity. As for a shortcut, bagged frozen peas and carrots will save you from the hassle of petite-dicing carrots since the carrots in those bags are the perfect size to produce an identical clone. 11 Photos . After braising about 30 pounds of chuck roasts, I finally discovered the perfect Chipotle Mexican Grill barbacoa burrito copycat recipe with a taste-alike adobo sauce that fills your roast with flavor as it slowly cooks to a fork-tender delicacy on your stovetop over 5 to 6 hours. Simmer for an additional 30 minutes so until the vegetables and chicken fully cooked. When all the breading is wet, the potatoes go into the oil for partial frying. Once that was done, I measured increments of balsamic glaze into the Alfredo sauce until the color and flavor matched the original. If youd like to complete the dish the way its served at the restaurant (as in the photo), add some garlic mashed potatoes on the side, using my hack for Olive Garden Garlic Mashed Potatoes. The secret process starts by coating the potato slices with the dry breading mix, which contains salt. This will add a little kick to the soup. Braised and shredded pork shoulder is a staple of Mexican cuisine that Chipotle prepares with a simple blend of flavors, and a surprising ingredient you may not have expected: juniper berries. Definitely making this over & over againthanks for the recipe! Islands Copycat Tortilla Soup. Satisfy yourCracker Barrel cravings with more of my copycat recipes here. Carne asada is almost always made with flank steak or skirt steak. Check out the other four most unlocked recipes for the year:Olive Garden Lasagna Classico (#2),King's Hawaiian Original Hawaiian Sweet Rolls (#3),Pei Wei Better Orange Chicken (#4),Chipotle Mexican Grill Carnitas (#5). If that isnt in the stars for you, you could buy a bottle of the sauce at your local market (if they even have it). It rocks! But the new flavor is for a limited-time-only, and when its gone, my exclusive Chipotle Pollo Asado recipe may be the only way to satisfy your deep desire. Heat oil in a Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add some onions, red bell pepper, and pineapple chunks, and youve just made a spot-on copy of the popular limited dish. You may need to add more oil to the pan to cover the beef in the flash-frying step. Click here to see if I coped your favorite. We serve our Chicken Parmigiana with a side of spaghetti for dinner.. At least it was at the Chipotle near me, where the Pollo Asado was ordered more than any other protein, according to servers there. I used to live near an Islands and now I am far away so great to be able to make this at home. Step 1. Its a mistake to assume that a recipe posted to a restaurant chains website is the real recipe for the food served there. And when this seemingly overcooked beef was stirred into the sauce, it stayed crispy until served, just like the real thing. When picking your pork roast, try to find one without too much fat. My Islands Tortilla Soup recipe produces a copycat with awesome flavor and texture, since you'll be making fresh chicken stock from the carcass of the roasted chicken. You can add your choice of cheese, plus guacamole and sour cream for a super-deluxe clone version. Keep the bones in the roasting pan for now. It's a more expensive, better-tasting black pepper that comes from the Malabar coast in India, and you should use it here if you can find it. 2. Pour the soup into bowls, and top with a small handful of the tortilla strips, a sprinkling of Jack cheese and the diced avocado. Try my Chili's Chicken Enchilada Soup recipe below, and complete your meal with more of my Chili's copycat recipes here.Source: Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 2 by Todd Wilbur. If you prefer chicken burritos, head on over to my clone recipe forQdoba Grilled Adobo Chicken. cayenne pepper 2 tbsp. But I do suggest that you cook the white rice several hours or even a day or two before you plan to make the finished dish. After you grill it, slice the meat across the grain and use it in burritos, tacos, bowls, or as a Southwest-style salad topper. This recipe was our #4 most popular in 2020. Menu Description: Creamy marsala wine sauce with mushrooms over grilled chicken breasts, stuffed with Italian cheeses and sundried tomatoes. A server at Chipotle told me they use skirt steak, which is surprising since that is the tougher of the two cuts. Heat 1 tablespoon of the oil in a large, heavy-bottomed pot over medium-high. Add the chopped onion, pinto beans, corn, canned tomatoes, taco seasoning, ranch dressing, and water or beef stock to the ground beef. The technique I settled on was cooking the sauce covered for 2 hours, then uncovered for 1 additional hour so that the sauce reduces and the beef transforms into a fork-flakeable flavor bomb. The talented chefs at Benihana cook food on hibachi grills with flair and charisma, treating the preparation like a tiny stage show. You might also like to try my Boston Market side-dish recipes here.Source: Even More Top Secret Recipes by Todd Wilbur. The slaw is best when it has some time to sit and wilt a bit, so plan ahead for the best flavor. Built by the Worcester Lunch Car Co. back in 1940, Gilley's PM Lunch in Portsmouth is one of America's best diners, albeit small enough that for much of its life, the restaurant was actually a . Since Panera Bread makes all its ingredients known, it's not hard to find out that theres no chicken broth in the original recipe, yet every copycat recipe I located online calls for chicken broth, as well as other ingredients clearly not found in Panera's version. Realizing that steady income from an acting and singing career can be undependable, Jimmy invested his show-biz money in a hog farm. 2. Serve topped with mozzarella, crispy tortilla strips and a . The skin will be crispy. Check out the other four most unlocked recipes for the year: Rao's Homemade Marinara Sauce (#1), Olive Garden Lasagna Classico (#2), King's Hawaiian Original Hawaiian Sweet Rolls (#3), Chipotle Mexican Grill Carnitas (#5). "Before a skilled chef appears tableside to perform his culinary prestidigitation on the hot hibachi grill at Benihana, you're treated to a tasty bowl of chicken broth-based soup with fried onions, sliced mushrooms and green onions floating cheerfully on top. In 1968 the Jimmy Dean Meat Company developed the special recipe for sausage that has now become a household name. A widely circulated recipe that claims to duplicate the chains classic Bolognese actually originated on Olive Gardens own website, and if you make that recipe youll be disappointed when the final product doesnt even come close to the real deal. Source:Top Secret Recipes Unlocked by Todd Wilbur. Stir in chicken broth, tomatoes, whole raw chicken breasts, all the spices, and 3/4 teaspoon salt. Here is the chicken wing cooking and coating technique, followed by clones for the most popular sauces: Spicy Garlic, Medium and Hot. If you like Uno, you'll love this! Build it, sauce it, serve it. It wasnt long before Robert changed the name of his thriving business to Kings Hawaiian, and in 1977 the company opened its first bakery on the mainland, in Torrance, California, to make the now-famous island sweet rolls sold in stores across the U.S. Kings Hawaiian Rolls are similar to Texas Roadhouse Rolls in that they are both pillowy, sweet white rolls, so it made sense to dig out my Texas Roadhouse Rolls clone recipe and use it as a starting point.