THE MOST TRUSTED COPYCAT RECIPES
THE MOST TRUSTED COPYCAT RECIPES

Tony Roma's

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    Tony Roma's Carolina Honeys BBQ Salmon

    Take one of Tony Roma's famous sauces, brush it over some grilled salmon and you've got a bravo moment. But it's not just about saucing up the fish. While creating my Tony Roma's Carolina Honeys BBQ Salmon recipe, I noticed that the salmon is first rubbed with a secret seasoning blend before it's grilled. Tony Roma's honey BBQ sauce doesn't join the party until the end of the recipe. For an encore, serve this dish along with my clone recipe for Maple Sweet Potatoes on the side just like in the restaurant, and absorb the applause.

    Source: Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 2 by Todd Wilbur.

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  • Score: 4.94 (votes: 16)
    Tony Roma's Baked Potato Soup

    Menu Description: "A house specialty full of baked potatoes and topped with Cheddar cheese, bacon and green onions."

    The thick-and-creamy texture and rich taste of Tony Roma's best-selling baked potato soup is easily duplicated with a little flour, some half-and-half, and most notably, instant mashed potatoes. Give yourself an hour to bake the potatoes and around 30 minutes to prepare the soup. Garnish each serving with shredded cheese, crumbled bacon and green onions, and then humbly await your due praise.

    Try my Tony Roma's Baked Potato Soup recipe below, and find more of your favorite Ruby Tuesday copycat recipes here

    Source: Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 2 by Todd Wilbur.

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  • Score: 5.00 (votes: 3)
    Tony Roma's Blue Ridge Smokies Sauce

    Of the four fabulous barbecue sauces served on the delicious ribs at Tony Roma's, this is the only one that wasn't cloned in the third book, Top Secret Restaurant Recipes. This sweet, smoky sauce is great on baby back ribs cooked with the Tony Roma's clone technique found on page 298 of that book or in recipes here on the site: for Chili's Baby Back Ribs here, and for Roadhouse Grill Baby Backs here.

    You can also use my Tony Roma's Blue Ridge Smokies sauce recipe on a dish of your own for pork or beef ribs, even chicken. Now Tony Roma's sells each of its sauces at the restaurant chain, separately, or in gift sets. But if you don't have a Tony Roma's close by, or you just like to dabble, this is a good way to get great pro barbecue taste at home.

    Source: Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 2 by Todd Wilbur.

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  • Score: 5.00 (votes: 1)
    Tony Roma's Maple Sweet Potatoes

    Here's a hack for a new menu item at Tony Roma's that's served alongside the Carolina Honeys BBQ Salmon. To make Tony Roma's maple sweet potatoes at home, you simply combine maple syrup, cinnamon and pecans with sweet potatoes, for an irresistible side dish just like the original.

    Source: Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 2 by Todd Wilbur.

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  • Score: 5.00 (votes: 3)
    Tony Roma's World-Famous Original Baby Back Ribs

    Tony Roma had already been in the restaurant business for many years when he opened Tony Roma's Place in North Miami, Florida in 1972. This casual diner featured food at reasonable prices, nightly live entertainment and the house specialty: baby back ribs. Soon, customers were traveling from miles away to get a taste of the succulent, mouth-watering ribs. One rib-lover came from Texas in 1976: Clint Murchison, Jr., a Texas financier and owner of the Dallas Cowboys. After sampling the baby backs, and claiming they were the best he'd ever tasted, he struck up a deal with Tony to purchase the majority of the U.S. rights to the company and planned for a major expansion.

    The famous barbecue ribs served at the restaurant have been judged the "Best in America" at a national rib cook-off and have won more than 30 awards at other state and local competitions. The secret to the tender, melt-in-your-mouth quality of the ribs at Tony Roma's is the long, slow-cooking process. Use my Tony Roma's Ribs copycat recipe below to duplicate the cooking technique at home for results that look and taste just like the original.

    And of course, my recipe includes a replica of the sauce that made Tony Roma's famous. The original sauce uses a ketchup base, vinegar, dark corn syrup and a bit of Tabasco. The chain serves it on their Original Baby Back Ribs and has started selling it by the bottle in each restaurant. Use my Tony Roma's original BBQ sauce recipe for a sauce that is less costly than the bottled brand, and can be used on any cut of ribs, or even chicken.

    Check out my copycat recipes for these other 3 Tony Roma's sauces: Caroline Honey Sauce, Blue Ridge Smokies Sauce, and Red Hots Sauce.

    Source: Top Secret Restaurant Recipes by Todd Wilbur.

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  • Score: 5.00 (votes: 2)
    Tony Roma's Carolina Honey Sauce

    Menu Description: "Tender, select-cut pork spare ribs basted with our special-recipe sauce. Nothing could be finer..."

    This smoky sauce is perfectly sweetened with honey and molasses, and it bites just a bit with pepper sauce. Smother pork spareribs, baby back ribs and beef ribs with the sauce, as they do at the restaurant. Use the cooking technique from here to make the ribs.

    Source: Top Secret Restaurant Recipes by Todd Wilbur.

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  • Score: 4.00 (votes: 1)
    Tony Roma's Red Hots Sauce

    Menu Description: "Some like it hot! Tender, meaty ribs basted with our spicy red hot sauce made with five types of peppers."

    If you like your sauces really spicy, this is the recipe for you. Five different peppers go into this one: crushed red peppers, red bell pepper, Tabasco, cayenne pepper, and ground black pepper. The restaurant serves this on pork spareribs, but you can slather it on any ribs, or chicken, or steaks.

    Use pork spareribs and the cooking technique from here to make the ribs.

    Source: Top Secret Restaurant Recipes by Todd Wilbur.

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