Creative Recipes Using USDA Foods - School Nutrition

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Creative Recipes Using USDA Foods

Wednesday July 11, 2018


Speaker Slide

Malissa Marsden, SNS

Consultant

Child Nutrition Support Services

Supporting two Agricultural Marketing Boards as

clients: American Egg Board and the Mushroom

Council


Please respect each other

•Mute phone

•One meeting

•Share questions as we go


• Maximizing USDA Foods requires ongoing planning

and forecasting, as well as recipe and menu

development. This session offers speed scratch

techniques and great recipes using USDA Foods to

leverage today’s trendy menu concepts.

Our Session Description


Dietary Guidelines For Americans

•According to the 2015 DGA, an important strategy for meeting nutrition goals is to change the composition of center-of-the plate entrées.

•Learn how to increase consumption of fruits and vegetables by using their flavors, textures and colors to enhance entrées while meeting the meal patterns—no stealth nutrition needed—just creativity and imagination.


Remodel Entrée’s

•American’s traditional meat centered entrée

•Many cultures’ traditional entrées

⎻ Small amounts of meat

⎻ Mixed in vegetables, fruits and whole grains

•Stir Fries, Rice Bowls, Noodle Bowls


Updated nutritional targets

•Gluten and Allergens⎻Gluten added

“unnecessarily”⎻Nut Free District

•Nutritional Impact⎻Reduce sodium⎻Reduce fat⎻ Increase whole grains

•Local productsNashville SD TN Fish Entrée


Recipes Combine

Vision +

Math +

Science + Art

= Recipe


Food Buying Guide

•Starting point

•Establishes base quantity for ingredients⎻Portions based on raw product used⎻Portions based on finished product created

•If lacking in FBG⎻In house established yield


USDA Foods

•USDA Foods Product Information Sheets⎻Updating all

⎻ Average info

⎻Use most current version from web

⎻ http://www.fns.usda.gov/fdd/nslp-usda-foods-fact-sheets

http://www.fns.usda.gov/fdd/nslp-usda-foods-fact-sheets


USDA Food


Commercial Ingredients

•CN Label

•Meal Component Credits

•USDA approved

•Product Formulation Statement (PFS)

•Provided by manufacturer

•Not approved by USDA


Standardized Recipe:

•Pre-prep

•Prep

•Cook

•Hold

•Serve

• Plating

• Garnishing

• Schematics for bars/lines

Knox County SD, TN


Meal components In = Outcome

• By Number of oz. eq.

⎻ Meat/Meat Alternate

⎻ Grain

⎻ 0.25 oz. increments

• By Volume

⎻ Vegetable

⎻ Fruit

⎻ 1/8 cup and up

Walker Valley HS, Bradley TN


How it is consumed?

•Spork

•Hand Held

•Finger Fun


Test

•Sandwich⎻ Does it fit in the bun?⎻ Does the wrap hold all

ingredients?⎻ Do the flavors blend?

•Salad⎻ Does the bed hold the toppings?⎻ Are the toppings bite size?⎻ Do the flavors blend?

•Hold: duplicate real times

•Taste Tests

DeKalb County TN Taste Testing Hummus


Acceptance = Consumption

•Consistency

•All Students

•All Meal Times

•Appearance

•Spice level

•Size of portion


Combine

•Flavors and Colors

•Fresh DoD with Frozen and Shelf Stable options

•Further processed USDA Foods with Direct Delivery

Meigs County HS, Decatur TN


A Rainbow of Concepts

•Sweet Potato Hash

⎻ With jalapeños, onion and peppers

•Oven Roasted Butternut squash with a

Thai chili Sauce glaze

•Baby carrots with cinnamon yogurt

•Oven roasted mix of squash, carrots

and sweet potatoes

•See Veggies on Fire from San Diego


No love here Perfectly Cooked Every Time


Sauces, Gravy’s & Glazes

Breakfast Burrito

Green Chili Sauce

Greeley-Evans School

District 6, CO

Chef Regis’ Rosemary

Chicken

Provo ISD, UT

Teriyaki Glazed

Blended Meatballs


Garnishing

•Part of the recipe

Taters & Beans Garnished Hot Lake City Middle School Anderson County SD TN


Branding & Marketing

• Your Brand

•Your Mascot

•Agricultural Marketing Boards

•State Agencies

•Fellow Districts

MPS, Minneapolis MN


USDA New Recipes

Peppy Pasta Salad USDA Foods Culinary

Demo 7.8.18

Wrap it Up served with

Peppy Pasta Salad


USDA Foods: Canned, Fresh & Frozen

Sweet Heat Salsa Corn & Bean Salsa

Texas Caviar

Cowboy Salsa

Savory Refried Beans


▪ 6 -5 # and 12 -2 # frozen

▪ Great as an ingredient

Minneapolis Public Schools French Toast Bake and Savory Strata or Bread Pudding

Quiche Loudoun County SD

Tater Tot Bake Garland ISD


Sheet Pan Omelets

Ham & Cheese Sheet

Pan Omelet

Charleston SC Testing

Tex Mex Sheet Pan

Omelet

Garland ISD Testing

Ham & Cheese Sheet

Pan Omelet

Garland ISD Testing


Texas Toast Egg

Sandwich

Garland ISD

Pancake & Egg Taco

Jackson County Central SD

Jackson MN

Egg & Bacon Biscuit

Whitesboro ISD, TX


USDA IQF Diced Mushrooms and USDA IQF Fajita Blend Peppers and Onions

Using Mother Nature’s Flavors


▪ Fruits & Vegetables into entrees

▪ Blend for consumption

▪ Blend for flavor

▪ Blend for moisture and holding


▪ Thaw crumbles

▪ Add frozen vegetables

▪ Easily ¼ cup additional vegetable per serving


• Juan J Zamorano @zzamo6

• May 7, 2018

• What do you get when you blend together IQF commodity

mushrooms, Tri potatoes, breakfast meat, cheese and salsa

verde? Pure deliciousness! I just received my sample of IQF

mushrooms and I'm loving it.Thanks

• Cool product at SUS


Breakfast Burrito

Building

Breakfast Burrito Veggies Roasted for

the burrito


San Diego IQF Mushrooms

Oven Roasted

MushroomsMarketing

Roasted Vegetables

ready to serve


DoD Fresh Mushrooms

Mushroom Risotto

Garland ISD

Prepping Fresh

Mushrooms

New Characters


Greeley-Evans School District 6, CO

•Recipes attached in the app

•Flavor Station Recipes

•Burger Spice Recipe

•Mac & Cheese Bar Recipe

•American Grille Global Bar

•Thanks to the team for sharing with us


The Vision

•Can you see today’s kindergarteners

⎻ As healthy eaters in 2024?

⎻ As open minded eaters?

⎻ As savvy consumers?

⎻ As being a change agent in their families?

⎻ As being a change agent in society?

•We do!


AFFILIATION OR FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE

Malissa Marsden, SNS

•Child Nutrition Support Services

•Consultant supporting two agricultural marketing boards:

⎻ American Egg Board & Mushroom Council

⎻ @malissamarsden

⎻ [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

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