Making Restaurant Dinner Menu at Home

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Foods from our favorite restaurants make us want to make those menus at home.
Garlic Butter Baby Green Beans with mashed potatoes in plant-based version.

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It's a fun challenge when we try to duplicate the food from our favorite restaurant. Although, the taste will definitely be different. At least we're trying to cook what we like in the restaurant so far.

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We know why the restaurant will serve food at a higher price than when we cook it ourselves at home. So, this method is also a way for us to be grateful for how we have enjoyed good food at that favorite restaurant.

Long short story, a few weeks ago I visited a new restaurant which is now my favorite restaurant. I haven't had time to review the food here, for you guys. But I promise, I will review the restaurant here. So this time I'm going to cook a menu for dinner inspired by the menu of my favorite restaurant.

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Plant-Based Version Foods

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There is one fundamental difference in the favorite restaurant that I visited. The food that I ate at that time was not a plant-based version. At that time I ordered a menu with salmon as the main ingredient. Meanwhile, this time I only used plant-based protein from "Tempeh" ingredients.


Baby Green Beans

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There is one ingredient that inspired me to make this menu at home. Those are baby green beans. Usually I only eat green beans in general, which are definitely bigger than baby green beans. It's just that their texture is very different. So, when I eat baby green beans, it gives me a new experience.

I was curious about these vegetables and then did a little research on the internet. I found the vegetables are baby green beans. A few days later, I also did research directly on the market that provides organic ingredients. Fortunately, I found baby green beans. I am very excited to cook the baby green beans myself at home.


Baby green Beans are the main menu in the dish I made this time for the dinner menu. Then I look for other ingredients that I can mix with baby green beans. I also have the idea to combine baby green beans with potatoes and tempeh.




Garlic Butter Baby Green Beans

The thing that I definitely remember on the Green baby green beans menu that I eat at my favorite restaurant is the seasoning of garlic. Also tastes creamy. For other ingredients, I don't know exactly. So I decided to take only a few important ingredients that I often use in my cooking menu.

I use garlic and butter. In this case I use plant-based butter, namely margarine.




Garlic Butter Baby Green Beans Ingredients

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  • 250 grams of green beans
  • 3 tablespoons of plant based butter
  • 3 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
  • a pinch of salt
  • enough water about a few tablespoons if needed to avoid burning

Blanch Baby Green Beans

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To serve the garlic butter baby green beans, first I blanch the baby green beans in salted water for 3 minutes. This method doesn't have to be done if you want to speed up the cooking time.

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The blanch method will help the color of the baby green beans to maintain their bright color. That will make the baby green beans even juicier and crunchier. This of course will increase professionalism if served in a restaurant.

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Then, after blanching, remove the baby green beans and dip them in cold water. Then set aside while we prepare other things.


Stir-fry Baby Green Beans
Cook vegan butter with garlic over low heat. Stir for a while until fragrant.

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Then add the baby green beans that have been drained from the cold water before. Keep stirring until the baby green beans have a cooked texture that suits your taste.

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Don't forget to sprinkle with a pinch of salt. Also pepper (optional).

Later, serve stir-fry baby green beans with mashed potatoes and fried/baked Tempeh.




Making Mashed Potatoes

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We need effort to make delicious mashed potatoes, as well as good texture. In this plant-based version, I use additional ingredients including coconut milk and vegan butter.

Mashed Potatoes Ingredients

  • 250 grams of potatoes
  • enough melted butter with Chopper garlic
  • 50 ml of coconut milk
  • a pinch of finely textured salt.

How To Make Mashed Potatoes

Pel the potatoes, soak briefly, then boil the potatoes until they become soft.

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Remove the boiled potatoes, drain the water. In a large bowl, mash boiled potatoes. I use two stages.

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After that I use the bottom of the glass to mash the potatoes into a finer texture.


Then, prepare the other ingredients. Mix mashed potatoes with all ingredients, add coconut milk and butter that has been melted with chopped garlic before. Also sprinkle with a pinch of fine salt.
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After it is thoroughly mixed and the texture of the mashed potatoes is to your liking, it's time to serve with "Garlic Butter Baby Green Beans."

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SERVING

By the way, I almost forgot to mention one thing. I've also fried the Tempeh while waiting for the potatoes to get cooked when boiled. So quite a time saver.

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I shape the tempeh into a round shape, then fry the Tempeh until golden brown.

So, after everything is done, it's time to serve on a serving plate.

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I put mashed potatoes as the base of the shape. I just made it random.

After finishing forming the mashed potatoes, then I added garlic butter baby green beans on top of the mashed potatoes.

Don't forget to add Tempeh and a little detail on the greens (I added Romaine Lettuce).

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As a final touch, I added a sauce made from garlic butter and coconut milk. Also, I added spicy sauce to the serving plate.




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So, what do you think about the appearance of my dinner menu this time, which is inspired by my favorite menu at a restaurant? I am quite satisfied with the overall taste of my dinner.

I love those baby green beans. Seasoned in a simple way and..., that's how the taste made me remember about that food. ❤️

Thanks for reading and have a wonderful weekend, food lovers!

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Best Regards,
Anggrek Lestari


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Who is Anggrek Lestari?

Anggrek Lestari is an Indonesian fiction writer who has published two major books. Now She is a full-time content creator. She has a goal to share life, poem, and food content that makes others happy and can get inspiration.


Contact Person: authoranggreklestari@gmail.com
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I bet the final product and taste feel a lot better than many restaurants out there. So congrats on that! :)

Oh your comment Made me smile. I'm happy to recreate that food on my version 🌸

Very cool plating

What a beautiful plate. You reminded me that I have tempeh in my freezer. I'll get it out. I also have enough potatoes to feed a village. Thanks for the idea.

A very creative and delicious recipe, I will keep this recipe. Thank you for sharing it.💕

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My pleasure!
It all looks delicious. Potatoes and beans I eat often, but I never had Tempeh... yet :)

Looks nice and delicious, I will try this at home !! Everything you do looks super yummy !!

Also I like to recreate restaurant food, I have worked in restaurants and it is already kinda easy to recognize flavors

so you have great experience about food and kitchen 😍

bringing fancy food at home by cooking is cheap one for sure 😊

The plating is always so lit...

Yummy and lovely 😊

That is just it. With the right presentation that already makes such a difference. During covid we did a lot of these homecooking sessions trying to recreate restaurant food, and actually we were able to do it.

Nice one!

Recreate restaurant food is so much fun right? 😊

Super fun actually and it turns out we have way more skills than we thought!

Why don't you open a restaurant? 😊

Since I was a little girl, I have dream to make restaurant. But still, needed more plan to make it works.
Hope one day, I can create my own restaurant. In here, maybe people didn't like what I create as healthy food 😅

Looks fabulous sis, hope you enjoyed it!

Everything looks so fancy and delicious
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fancy with simple ingredients 😊

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This is delicious and elegant! Yummy!

Yumyyy 😋😋😋

you made exactly serving as restaurants do. But I am sure there is a lot of difference between paying in the restaurant and making it at home. plus you get a very fresh and real taste of food at home thank you for sharing your creativity. greetings 💓😊

Making food at home is saving money. Meanwhile, when eating at restaurants, we have new experiences and knew new food that already exists

it is true to find new tastes and new ideas, sometimes a better place is the restaurant

That looks awesome! I bet it tasted even better than at the restaurant, since you could adjust seasoning and ingredients to your liking 😋

homemade is always better because is liking to our taste and preferences 😊

Good evening from India..
Many people put in a lot of effort to become good cooks whereas some people have this talent innately. I have been watching your recipe for a long time, definitely there is something special inside you that shares such a wonderful and delicious dish with us. Likewise I like bean racipe alot. Although the bean that here produce little different in shape and size rather than use in your recipe.
Yummy.. Really it would be tasty 😋

Good night from Indonesia
We need to put effort into every work, especially what we love to do.

Thank you so much for always reading my recipe for a long time 😊

You are right dear, We know how the food it is. You're at your favorite restaurant, and you see the menu. And even though we know it's not going to be as real one cooking at home, we just can't stop ourself—you have to try to make it at home!The recipe turn out with the great results. It looks so yummy. Well, now you can! It's like having a personal chef who will cook anything for what we want, whenever you want it!

my kitchen is indeed the place I grow up with creative mind indeed :)

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Looks great, chef! I'm sure I've seen it somewhere. Maybe on a poster or a brochure. It's a pretty good presentation.

oh then super great you are familiar with this menu 😅 at least I did great job ehehe 😛


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Yummy, this looks great! I love tempeh!

For sure. My husband want me to cook Tempeh menu every single day 😀

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wow this looks inkis really beautiful, I just saw it for the first time, you always give different variations in every dish, thank you very much for sharing this recipe, I really like it

yeah this is new menu. I got inspired from my latest restaurant visit 😊