Wednesday, 5 November 2025

Book ~ "Secret Sauce: 200 Copycat Recipes to Re-Create Your Favorite Restaurant Sauces, Dips, and Dressings" (2025) Kelly Jaggers

From Goodreads ~ Skip the pricey restaurant bill and recreate your favorite restaurant sauces right at home with these 200 fast, easy and delicious copycat recipes for popular sauces, dips, dressings, and more!

Enjoy your favorite restaurant sauces ... without waiting in lines, paying inflated prices, or stocking up on sauce packets to save for later meals. With 200 quick and simple recipes, you can now recreate your favorite restaurant sauces, dressings, and dips right at home. You’ll find iconic recipes like:
  • Chipotle’s Guacamole
  • McDonald’s Tartar Sauce
  • Applebee’s Oriental Vinaigrette
  • Shake Shack’s Cheese Sauce
  • Carrabba’s Dipping Oil
  • Taco Bell’s Creamy Jalapeño Sauce
  • And more!
With these classic tried and true recipes, Secret Sauce helps you recreate popular restaurant sauces as closely as possible - while still receiving the same rave reviews as the real thing - on a much smaller tab. 

This book is your guide to all the sauces you love from restaurants but wish you could make at home. The author collected 200 copycat recipes for everything from fast-food favourites to sit-down-restaurant classics. The book breaks each recipe down so it seems easy and uses everyday ingredients. 

The book is broken down into sections:
  • Secret Sauces at Home - history, ingredients to have on hand, tools and appliances, preparation and serving, and storage and safety
  • Turn Up the Heat
  • From Tenders to Wings: Chicken Dipping Sauces
  • Between Two Buns: Burger and Sandwich Sauces
  • Into the Sea: Seafood Sauces
  • Lighter Fare: Salad Dressings and Marinades
  • On the Side: Side Dish Dipping Sauces
  • The Finishing Touches: Cooking, Finishing and Topping Sauces
  • Don't Fill Up on Dip: Hearty Dips

Before each recipe, there is a description of the restaurant and what the sauce is used for.

It's an American-based book so I hadn't heard of some of the sauces (or restaurants) but it will be fun to try to replicate the recipes.

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