Best Copycat Recipes At Home
This taco seasoning combines ten pantry spices, including cumin, cayenne, paprika, and ground ginger, in a single bowl. The blend is scaled for one pound of taco meat and comes together in about 5 minutes. Quadruple it and store in a sealed jar for four batches at once. Ground ginger is the ingredient that sets …
TJ’s Carne Asada Autentica goes straight from the package onto a hot grill in this marinated meat dinner. A fire roasted pepper and corn salad with feta and parsley builds on the side in the same 20-minute cook window. The full plate serves four in 25 minutes. Frozen peppers and onions release a lot of …
These spicy crab sushi rolls combine TJ’s Surimi, sushi rice, nori, and a Kewpie mayo and Sriracha filling into eight rolls. Nine core ingredients make up the rice and filling, and the whole batch comes together in 40 minutes. No specialty store is required and no restaurant markup. Kewpie mayo is what separates a flat …
This Trader Joe’s corn dip combines TJ’s Everything and the Elote Greek Style Yogurt Dip with TJ’s Corn Chile Salsa in equal parts. No cooking required: stir to combine, chill 15 minutes, and serve. Two containers from one grocery run are everything this dip needs. The Elote dip is what separates this from a plain …
This Trader Joe’s everything ciabatta rolls recipe builds a gourmet sandwich on TJ’s toasted everything ciabatta with a pesto-mayo spread, deli meats, stracciatella, arugula, and balsamic glaze. It comes together in about 10 minutes and makes one sandwich per roll. There is no cooking beyond toasting the bread. The pesto-mayo spread is what ties this …
This Trader Joe’s miso recipe builds a full bowl of ramen using TJ’s Ginger Miso Broth, Miso Ramen noodle cups, and Baked Teriyaki Tofu. Everything cooks on the stovetop in 20 minutes and serves 4. Six ingredients and one pot are all it takes, start to finish. The Ginger Miso Broth does the heavy lifting …
This hack adds sautéed cabbage, baby corn, and a quick ginger sauce to a bag of TJ’s Vegetable Fried Rice. The sauce uses soy sauce, brown sugar, ginger paste, onion powder, and garlic. Prep takes 5 minutes and the full pan is ready in 15. The ginger sauce is what makes this worth making. It …
This copycat of Trader Joe’s Popcorn with Herbs and Spices uses six ingredients: nutritional yeast, celery seed, dill, onion powder, garlic powder, and sea salt. Fresh-popped kernels soak up the blend in about 10 minutes. The recipe makes enough to serve four. Nutritional yeast is the ingredient that sets this seasoning apart from a generic …
Trader Joe’s enchiladas use ground turkey, TJ’s Enchilada Sauce, TJ’s Homestyle Salsa Especial, and TJ’s Corn & Wheat Tortillas. Prep takes 20 minutes and the pans bake at 350°F for 25 minutes. The recipe fills 3 to 4 pans and serves 16. The sauce is not just the enchilada sauce on its own. Two 12-ounce …
Trader Joe’s Spinach Dip Pasta is a creamy pasta dish made with TJ’s frozen spinach and artichoke dip, chicken sausage, and 16 ounces of pasta. The full batch makes four servings in 25 minutes with no sauce built from scratch. Two containers of the dip is what makes the sauce thick enough to coat a …