What if I told you you didn't have to leave your house the next time you had a serious craving for Olive Garden? These copycat recipes allow you to create your own restaurant-worthy dinner at home, and there's no reservation required. From Olive Garden favorites like the famous breadsticks to other menu must haves like the minestrone soup, these Italian recipes will convince you that going out to eat is overrated.
One of the reasons Olive Garden's breadsticks are so damn addictive is what's on top: garlic salt. We've hacked the recipe so you can start any meal on the right note with this heavenly appetizer.
If Olive Garden's Tuscan garlic chicken is one of your favorite meals to order, you'll love this easy version that has a simple cream sauce with spinach, parmesan, and garlic.
What makes Olive Garden's alfredo sauce so cheesy and decadent is a combination of butter, garlic, heavy cream, milk, parmesan, and an egg yolk. It's the perfect base for fettuccine pasta and sauteed shrimp.
Pasta fagioli soup is like a mashup of pasta with tomato sauce, minestrone soup, and Italian sausage soup. It has the best of both the pasta and soup worlds.
Olive Garden's chicken lombardy is even better than chicken parmesan because the breaded chicken is topped with alfredo sauce, cheese, bacon, and parsley.
This lightened-up version of Olive Garden's chicken Marsala has a flavor-packed Marsala wine sauce that's served on top of breaded chicken coated in whole-wheat flour.