3 Great Olive Garden Recipes

Olive Garden Grilled Chicken Flat bread

Recipe Type: Appetizer

Prep time: 10 min

Cook time: 35 min

Serves: 4

You may consider adding additional toppings to this, I made one with some sliced red onions, and a couple of kalamata olives and thought that these flat breads were quite delicious.

Ingredients

• 1 package of flatbread - this can be purchased at a grocery store
• 1 chicken breast
• 1 cup Alfredo sauce
• 1/2 to 1 grilled red pepper - depends on your personal preference, and how big the pepper is
• 1/4 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
• 1/4 cup chopped fresh basil
• 1 garlic clove

Instructions

Prepare Alfredo sauce, you can have the recipe, or you can simply cook up some pasta and enjoy some pasta with the Alfredo sauce. Season chicken breast with salt and pepper, and place in a skillet over medium-low heat with 1 tablespoon of cooking oil. Cook chicken breast for about 4 minutes on one side, flip over, and cook chicken breast on the other side, this should take about 3 to 4 minutes. Slice chicken breast into small slices.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Peel garlic clove, cut in half, and rub cut garlic clove over the flat bread. Place cooked sliced chicken breast onto flatbread, coat the bread with Alfredo sauce, top with half of the grilled red peppers, and add sprinkle over mozzarella cheese on top of everything. Place into the oven and heat until the mozzarella cheese melts, this should take 6 to 8 minutes. Remove from oven, and top with remaining grilled red peppers and add chopped basil before serving.

How to grill peppers

There are several ways to grill peppers.

How to grill a pepper in the oven

Preheat broiler. Lightly coat the red pepper with olive oil. Grill peppers under the broiler until the skin turns black and the pepper softens slightly. Place pepper into a paper bag to cool for approximately 20 minutes, and then peal off the blackened skin.

How to grill a pepper on a gas stove top

Turn your flame on high, and with metal tongs place the pepper on the gas burner, flip over once one side is blackened, continue to do so until the entire pepper has been blackened. Place pepper into a paper bag to cool for approximately 20 minutes, and the peal off the blackened skin.

Olive Garden Salad Dressing

1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/3 cup white vinegar
1 teaspoon vegetable oil
2 tablespoon corn syrup
2 tablespoon Parmesan cheese
2 tablespoon Romano cheese
1/4 teaspoon garlic salt, or one clove garlic, minced
1/2 teaspoon Italian seasoning
1/2 teaspoon parsley flakes
1 tablespoon lemon juice
sugar (optional)

Place all ingredients in a blender until well mixed. If this is a little too tart for your own personal taste, add a little extra sugar. You can enjoy your Olive Garden salad dressing for about 10 days if stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator. Another great use for the Olive Garden salad dressing is as a marinade for vegetables or even meats that you might like to grill. So you can see the Olive Garden salad dressing can be used in more than one way.

Be sure to serve this recipe with the Olive Garden Salad Mix.

Olive Garden Bolognese sauce

Recipe Type: Sauce, Pasta

Prep time: 10 min

Cook time: 45 min

Serves: 6

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 onion, finely chopped
• 1 carrot, finely chopped
• 1 celery, finely chopped
• 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
• 1/2 pound ground beef
• 6 ounces Italian sausage, skinned
• 1 cup red wine (Merlot or Pinot Nior recommended)
• 28 ounces crushed tomatoes, chopped
• 1 teaspoon fresh rosemary, chopped (or 1/4 tsp. dry)
• 1 teaspoon fresh sage
•  

Instructions

Heat oil in a large pan. Add celery, carrot, onion, and garlic and cook about 5 minutes. Add meat and cook 10 minutes over medium heat, stirring occasionally.† De-glaze pan with wine; let it reduce. Add tomatoes and remaining ingredients and stir; simmer for about 1 hour.† Serve over fresh, hot pasta.

These great recipes were found at copykat.com