BY SUSAN DAVIS GRYDER Why Seasonings
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As you develop your lunch and breakfast menus for the coming school year, you’re
probably thinking about ways to cut down on sugar, fat and salt without sacrifi cing the
fl avor and appeal of the food you serve. Maybe you’re looking to offer more scratch-
prepared dishes in place of certain processed items, in an effort to meet stricter nutrition
standards or make more use of locally sourced offerings.
One thing’s for sure: These new menu items had better taste good! But if you take
out the fat, sugar and salt, what’s left to make kids’ taste buds pop? The answer already
may be growing outside in your family, community or school garden. Many of the
plants that produce culinary herbs and spices may look inconsequential, but their leaves,
seeds, bark, root and fruit can pack an enormous fl avor punch!
Why Seasonings Are Worth Their “Salt”
BY SUSAN DAVIS GRYDER
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CHICKEN AND PEARS BOMBAY
YIELD: 24 servings*
PER SERVING: 429 cal., 29 g pro., 50 g carb., 2 g fi ber,
12 g fat, 3 g sat. fat, 81 mg chol., 723 mg sod.
INGREDIENTS
Onions, chopped—2 lbs. or 1 qt.
Butter—2 ozs. or 1 cup
Vegetable oil—1⁄4 cup
Curry powder—1 1⁄2 Tbsps.
Flour—3 ozs. or 3⁄4 cup
Chicken stock—2 qts.
Lemon juice—2 Tbsps.
Salt—1 Tbsp.
Chicken, pre-cooked—4 lbs., 8 ozs. or 3 1⁄2 qts.
Pear slices, canned, drained—3 lbs., 8 ozs. or 2 qts.
Parsley, chopped*—3⁄4 cup
Rice, cooked, long-grain—4 1⁄2 qts.
Almonds, toasted, slivered—optional
DIRECTIONS
1. Cut or pull the chicken into 3⁄8 x 3⁄8 x 1-in. strips.
2. Sauté the onions in the butter and oil until soft, for about
10 minutes.
3. Stir in the curry powder and continue to cook, stirring
for 1 minute.
4. Stir in the fl our and continue to cook, stirring for 5
minutes.
5. Remove the onion mixture from the heat and whisk in
the chicken stock. Return to the heat and cook until
thickened, about 5 minutes.
6. Remove from heat and stir in the lemon juice, salt,
chicken strips and pears.
7. Stir in the parsley and set the mixture aside.
8. For each serving, portion 1 cup chicken-and-pear
mixture and serve over 3⁄4 cup hot rice. Garnish with
almonds.
Photo, recipe and recipe analysis: Pacifi c Northwest Canned Pear Service, www.eatcannedpears.com
*Note: If this recipe passes the test with a small group of
students, adjust the quantities for batch preparation. The parsley
can be substituted with cilantro for a slightly different fl avor
profi le.
Judicious use of herbs, spices and other seasonings can add fl avor, while helping you to cut down on sodium and fat in various recipes.
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WUSHU CHICKEN TACOS
YIELD: 2 tacos*
SAUCE INGREDIENTS
Ginger, fresh—1⁄8-in. thick slice Sugar—2 1⁄2 tsps.
Garlic, peeled—2 cloves Worcestershire sauce—2 1⁄2 tsps.
Peanut butter, creamy—2 Tbsps. Sesame oil—2 1⁄4 tsps.
Soy sauce—1 Tbsp. Water—3 1⁄2 tsps.
Chili paste with garlic—3⁄8 tsp.
TACO INGREDIENTS
Rotisserie-style chicken, diced—1⁄2 cup Flour tortilla, 6-in.—2
Asparagus, cut in 1-in. long pieces—1⁄4 cup Lime wedges—2 (optional)
Squash, yellow, cut—1⁄4 cup
DIRECTIONS
1. To prepare the sauce: After peeling and
cutting in half the ginger, place the ginger
and peeled garlic in a small food processor
and chop as fi nely as possible.
2. Add the peanut butter, soy sauce, chili
paste, sugar, Worcestershire sauce, sesame
oil and water and process until the sauce is
completely smooth. If the sauce is too thick,
add more water. If the sauce is too thin, add more peanut butter.
3. Using about half of the sauce mixture, add to the chicken pieces, tossing to coat. Put
aside in a covered bowl.
4. To prepare the tacos: Boil approximately 1 in. of water in a large skillet and add the
asparagus. Cover the skillet and turn off the heat. In 1-3 minutes, lift off the skillet cover and
remove the asparagus. Set aside.
5. Cut off the ends of the squash and then cut the remaining squash into half-moon pieces
fi lling 1⁄4 cup. Place the squash in a microwave-safe bowl and add a little water. Cover with
plastic wrap and microwave 2-3 minutes. Let cool slightly and carefully drain off the water.
Set aside.
6. Place the tortillas in the microwave and cook about 15 seconds, or until they are warm
and bend easily. Place the chicken in the tortillas, top with the asparagus and squash and
drizzle with the remaining peanut butter sauce.
7. Serve with optional lime wedges.
Photo: Jif, www.jif.comRecipe: Margalit Mermelstein, age 8, Raleigh, N.C., winner of Jif ’s 2011 Most Creative Peanut Butter Sandwich Contest
*Note: If this recipe passes the test with a small group of students, adjust the quantities for batch
preparation and conduct a nutrient analysis.
Put Down the Shaker and
Back Away…
Few would argue that Americans’ favorite
fl avoring is salt. We shake it on vegetables
and meat, stir it into stews, and even bake
it into cookies. Some salt is a critical
element in the science of cooking and
should not be eliminated altogether. But
even if you reduce the amount of salt you
use in cooking and at the table, it’s likely
that you are consuming a great deal of salt
through processed and packaged foods
(bread, prepared dinners, cold cuts, cheese,
soup), not to mention restaurant offerings.
In fact, 77% of our sodium intake comes
from these sources. And some foods
naturally contain sodium; these include
vegetables, dairy products and shellfi sh.
So, just how extensive is that total
sodium intake? Researchers estimate that
the average American consumes 3,400 mg
of sodium every day. The 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend an
upper limit of 2,300 mg a day—even lower
if you are over age 51, black or have certain
medical conditions. Indeed, the American
Heart Association recommends consum-
ing no more than 1,500 mg a day.
Too much salt can contribute to serious
health problems by raising blood pressure
and harming the heart and circulatory
system. And such problems are being seen
at younger and younger ages. The Ameri-
can Academy of Pediatrics says that 5% of
kids have blood pressure that’s higher than
normal, due in large part to the high
sodium levels found in fastfood and
processed items. More children are getting
kidney stones, once a rare condition in
childhood; these can stem from excessive
salt intake. What’s more, kids who
consume a lot of salt get thirstier and
consequently drink more soda and juice,
adding extra calories. And fi nally, a diet
marked by too much salt can create lifelong
taste preferences that carry into adulthood.
Fortunately, there are ways to address
this problem. While adults and children
alike get accustomed to a certain level of
sodium in food, they also can learn to
break this habit over time, learning to fi nd
appeal in foods with less sodium. School
nutrition operations can be a part of the
solution by relying less on processed foods,
partnering with vendors to develop
acceptable lower-sodium alternatives,
making adjustments to recipes and so on.
Worried that your students will never
accept low-sodium foods and recipes?
That’s where spices and herbs come in!
There are many different seasonings that
can help enliven the taste of individual
foods and recipes that kids might be wary
of, add variety to tradional favorites and
offer fl avorful alternatives to heavy doses
of salt.
Are You Going to
Scarborough Fair?
In the Simon and Garfunkel song, based on
a traditional English ballad, a young man
asks his love to perform a series of impos-
sible tasks to prove her devotion. The
chorus repeats the names of four common
herbs: parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme.
Many folksongs evoke herbs, probably
because of their reputations as cures and
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APPLE SAUSAGE CORN BAKED “PANCAKES”
YIELD: 72 servings
PER SERVING: 180 cal., 3 g pro., 26 g carb., 0 g fi ber, 7 g fat, 2 g sat. fat, 40 mg chol.,
340 mg sod.
INGREDIENTS
Breakfast sausage, pre-cooked—1 lb., 2 ozs. or 4 cups Water, cool (72°F)—2 lbs., 8 ozs. or 5 cups
Apples, canned in water—2 lbs., 10 ozs. or 6 cups Corn muffi n mix—5 lbs.
Red onion—9 ozs. or 2 cups Sage, ground—2 Tbsps.
Eggs, large, whole—7 ozs. or 4 large
DIRECTIONS
1. Dice the pre-cooked breakfast sausage and put aside. Drain the apples, slice and put aside. Dice the onions and put aside.
2. Combine the eggs and water into a mixing bowl and beat with a wire whip.
3. Add the muffi n mix to the eggs. Mix using a wire whip until the batter is blended and smooth.
4. Lightly combine the sausage, apples, onion and sage together and then fold the mixture into the batter using a rubber spatula. Do not
overmix.
5. Deposit 1 lb., 4 ozs. (approximately 2 1⁄2 cups) of batter into 9 greased 8-in. round cake pans.
6. Bake in a convection oven for 14-18 minutes at 350ºF or in a standard oven for 16-20 minutes at 400ºF. Rotate pans baked in a convection
oven one-half turn after 5 minutes of baking.
7. Divide each pan into 8 individual servings.
Photo, recipe and recipe analysis: General Mills Foodservice, www.generalmillsfoodservice.com
JERK CHICKEN WITH PINEAPPLE MANGO SALSA
YIELD: 24 servings*
PER SERVING: 193 cal., 28 g pro., 15 g carb., 2 g fi ber, 2 g fat, 0 g sat. fat, 68 mg chol.,
201 mg sod.
SALSA INGREDIENTS
Pineapple, crushed, drained—6 cups Serrano chiles, seeded, fi nely
Mango, cubed—6 cups Lime peel, grated—2 Tbsps.
Cilantro, fresh, fi nely chopped—1⁄2 cup chopped—1 Tbsp.
CHICKEN INGREDIENTS
Pineapple, crushed, drained—3 cups Garlic salt—1 Tbsp. Blackpepper, ground —2 tsps
Onion, yellow, fi nely chopped—1 cup Allspice, ground—2 tsps. Cayenne pepper—1 tsp.
Thyme, dried—1 Tbsp. Cinnamon, ground—2 tsps. Chicken, boneless, skinless—24 5-oz. breasts
DIRECTIONS
1. To prepare the salsa: Combine the 6 cups of pineapple, mango, cilantro, lime peel and chiles. The yield should be 12 cups. Set aside.
2. Combine the 3 cups of pineapple, onion, thyme, garlic salt, allspice, cinnamon, black pepper and cayenne. Pour this mixture into a
sealable plastic bag and add chicken breasts. Turn to coat, then refrigerate for 15 minutes. Remove chicken from marinade.
3. Grill each chicken breast for 15 minutes or until it is no longer pink in the center, turning halfway through cooking.
4. Serve one breast with 1/2 cup of the pineapple mango salsa.
Photo, recipe and recipe analysis: Dole Food Company, Inc., www.dole.com
*Note: If this recipe passes the test with a small group of students, adjust the serving sizes and the quantities for batch preparation.
love charms. But we can learn a lesson
from long-ago balladeers: those four
herbs have modern curative properties,
too, as ingredients that can allow us to
reduce our dependence on salt without
sacrifi cing taste and appeal. If your expe-
rience with various seasonings is limited
to adding pepper when directed or using
basil in Italian dishes, it’s time you
expand your culinary experimentation!
Try some of the ideas that follow to…
er… “spice” up your menus.
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Popular Parsley
Parsley is a common garnish on restaurant
plates; you’re likely to fi nd a sprig sitting
jauntily next to omelets and steaks alike.
It’s also considered a “companion plant” in
many gardens, not just as an ingredient in
its own right, but also because it attracts
predatory fl ies and wasps, which then
protect nearby plants from troublesome
pests. It’s also used by some as a natural
breath freshener.
But parsley is a culinary herb that’s
widely used in Middle Eastern, European
and American dishes, both for its fresh
fl avor and to add a vivid dash of green
color. As an added bonus, it’s rich in
vitamin C—more so than many citrus
fruits! You may use it already, dried or
fresh, in meatloaf and stews. Its delicate
taste doesn’t overpower other fl avors, so it
can be used in quantity to complement a
wide variety of recipes. In fact, many
experts place it at the top of the list of the
most popular culinary herbs.
Parsley plays a signifi cant role in
traditional dishes from disparate cuisines.
For example, it’s a key ingredient in
tabbouleh, the national dish of Lebanon,
which also features bulgur, tomato, green
onion and mint. In France, it’s the main
ingredient in the traditional topping for
meat and fi sh called persillade, as well as in
the Italian gremolata (made with parsley,
lemon zest, olive oil and garlic), which is
considered a traditional accompaniment to
veal osso buco and other dishes.
Whether you choose the familiar curly
parsley or its more fl avorful fl at-leaf Italian
cousin, you can go a little nuts in seeing how
parsley can give a fresh taste to everything
from beef dishes to fi sh to salads and
vegetable dishes. Try a few of the following
suggestions and see for yourself!
■ Sprinkle raw, chopped parsley on a
salad.
■ Add parsley to a mayonnaise for an
alternate spread.
■ Add it to rice dishes.
■ Add it to meatballs or burgers.
■ Stuff it inside chicken or fi sh before
roasting or grilling.
■ Substitute all or part of the basil with
parsley for a different pesto mix.
■ Add parsley to omelet or scrambled
egg mixtures before cooking.
■ Chop it up with boiled potatoes,
cooked carrots or steamed peas.
■ Add parsley to anything with an
Italian-style tomato sauce.
The Wisdom of Sage
With its furry leaves, greenish-silver color
and earthy, musty fragrance, sage has been
a popular herb for centuries. This member
of the mint family been used as a medici-
nal herb for longer than it’s been used in
cooking; from the age of the Greeks to 19th
century America, sage has appeared in
remedies and poultices. It even boasts a
reputation as a memory enhancer!
You may be more familiar with sage than
you might realize. It’s a predominant fl avor
in Thanksgiving stuffi ng, as well as in
certain breakfast items, like pork sausage.
Indeed, sage is a complement to all sorts of
breakfast foods, from omelets to frittatas.
Because sage has a bitter quality to it
when it’s dried, you might want to start by
using it in its fresh, milder-tasting form.
Fresh sage mellows further in dishes that
have long cooking times, so it can be a deli-
cious ingredient in stews or with braised
meats. Either way, even when cooking with
fresh sage, don’t use a lot; dried sage
should be limited to about one teaspoon
per six servings.
Sage provides an added savory richness
to dishes that incorporate mild cheeses.
And introduce your students to the delight
of biscuits made with cheese and sage! Sage
also can be found on the cutting-edge
menus of trendy restaurants, where fried
sage leaves are sometimes used as a
crunchy, fl avorful garnish, and even in
desserts, combined with cornmeal to make
a tart crust. But your initial experiments
with using sage are more likely to be along
the following lines:
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ROASTED ROSEMARY VEGETABLES
YIELD: 100 servings
PER SERVING: 42 cal., 1 g pro., 7 g carb., 3 g fi ber, 1 g fat, 0 g sat. fat, 0 mg chol.,
108 mg sod., 15 mg ca.
INGREDIENTS
Bell peppers, green and red—3 lbs., Rosemary, fresh, coarsely chopped*
1 2 ozs. or 10 peppers —2 Tsps., 1 tsp.
Carrots, thickly sliced—7 lbs. Potatoes, new, red—12 lbs.
Olive oil or olive oil mix—1⁄2 cup Salt—1 Tbsp., 1⁄2 tsp
Garlic, fresh, minced —2 Tbsps., Black pepper—1 tsp.
1 tsp. or ~7 cloves
DIRECTIONS
1. Cut the peppers in half, lengthwise, discarding the stem and seeds. Cut each half into
four pieces.
2. Cut the unpeeled potatoes into approximately 1 1/2-in. wedges.
3. Toss the potatoes in a large bowl or steamtable pans with the carrots, peppers, oil, garlic,
rosemary, salt and pepper.
4. Spread the vegetables on parchment-covered sheet pans in a single layer.
5. Roast until the potatoes are cooked through and slightly browned. In a convection oven,
roast for about 30-40 minutes at 400ºF, or in a conventional oven, roast for about 35-45
minutes at 425ºF.
Recipe & recipe analysis: Fresh from the Farm: The Massachusetts Farm to School Cookbook, www.farmtoschool.org/fi les/publications_134.pdf
*Note: Dried rosemary may be substituted for fresh rosemary. If using dried rosemary, use 2 1⁄4 tsps.
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■ For secondary menus, a little sage
might perk up a grilled cheese sandwich
made with lowfat, low-sodium cheese. Or
try mixing it into macaroni and cheese.
■ Do you always make a white-bread-
based stuffi ng for Thanksgiving? Try
adding sage to cornbread and other
ingredients for a new twist on an old
favorite.
■ Use sage to fl avor vegetable soups.
■ Spinkle fresh-cut leaves onto a
gourmet pizza.
■ Rub sage and garlic into pork chops
before grilling.
Remember Rosemary
Rosemary’s spiky, miniature evergreen
leaves make it attractive as a decoration or
an indoor plant. In the Middle Ages, this
fragrant plant was thought to ward off evil
spirits, and people slept with it under their
pillows to chase away bad dreams. It’s also
one of the most popular herbs in many
cuisines, including Mediterranean foods
from Greece, Italy, France and Lebanon.
You can give a Mediterranean twist to
almost any type of meat or vegetable that
you grill or broil with a quick marinade of
olive oil, lemon juice, fresh garlic and
rosemary.
Rosemary is incredibly versatile in
cooking, and its impact comes as much
from its aroma—which has the quality of
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The Name Game
Spices and herbs are two different things, even though they sometimes can come
from the same plant! Typically, a spice comes from the seeds, fruit, roots or bark of a plant, while an herb comes from the leaves or stems. For example, a single plant produces the spice coriander (from its seeds) and the herb cilantro (from its leaves). Likewise, the seeds of the dill plant are consid-ered a spice, while its stems and leaves are the herb known as dillweed.
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fresh pine needles—as from its fl avor. In
fact, some barbecue cooks toss rosemary
sprigs directly onto hot coals so that their
aroma will infuse the food and tempt
waiting diners! The truly adventurous turn
rosemary sprigs into actual skewers for
grilling shrimp or vegetables, or use them to
skewer small cubes of cheese, hunks of
Italian salami, marinated artichokes and
olives. Drizzle the items with olive oil and
balsamic vinegar for an impressive no-cook
appetizer.
Rosemary can help add new fl avors to
foods that people are more accustomed to
eating fried. Potatoes are a great example;
instead of French fries, try serving steamed
potatoes with a small amount of butter and
fresh rosemary. Rosemary also adds great
depth of fl avor to a simple roast chicken or to
savory breads like foccacia. It also can be
combined with pine nuts or walnuts in
savory/sweet cookies, or even added to choco-
late cake for an unusual fl avor combination.
Rosemary is a strong spice, and you
should limit dried rosemary to a teaspoon
per six servings. The fresh leaves can be
chewy, so chop them fi ne when introducing
youngsters to dishes that feature fresh
rosemary. Need additional rosemary
recommendations? Consider these:
■ Add rosemary to melted butter and
pour over boiled potatoes and vegetables.
■ Combine it with garlic and use as a
seasoning for lamb or chicken.
■ Add rosemary to lentils, beans or
stews.
■ Use rosemary to give a new fl avor to
homemade breads, rolls and biscuits.
■ Add one-quarter teaspoon each of
crushed rosemary and garlic salt to hot
cooked peas or green beans.
■ Dress up ready-to-bake rolls by
brushing the tops with olive oil and then
sprinkling a little dried rosemary and sea
salt before baking.
Time to Try Thyme
Thyme, with its tiny, delicate leaves, adds a
pungent, spicy fl avor to dishes. Thyme is
another versatile herb. It’s ideal to perk up
dishes made with lamb, pork and fi sh and can
provide a savory complement to the robust
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fl avors of meatloaf and shepherd’s pie. It’s
a common ingredient in French, Creole
and Cajun cooking. And, in McCormick
for Chefs’ Flavor Forecast 2011, indepen-
dent consultants laud thyme and stone
fruits (cherries, plums, nectarines, apricots
and peaches) as one of the top 10 fl avor
pairings of the year.
Dried thyme has a medium intensity,
and no more than one or two teaspoons
will be suffi cient for six servings of a dish.
Thyme blends well when used with other
herbs, such as rosemary. If you want to
experiment with different herb combina-
tions, consider doing so with roasted
vegetables. Carrots, potatoes, parsnips
and onions are the best to try; coat them
with olive oil, sprinkle with thyme and
rosemary (or another herb) and roast in
the oven. Another side dish that stands
the test of thyme? Sautéed mushrooms!
Thyme also is delicious in egg dishes
like quiche or omelets, and can even be
baked into fresh bread for a savory twist.
It also pairs well with lemon in baked
desserts. You can use thyme in other
dishes, as well.
■ Add thyme to dishes that use beans,
such as stews and casseroles.
■ Try mixing thyme into any sauce
that goes on pasta.
■ Add thyme to soups and stocks.
■ Use it in marinades.
■ Add thyme to breadcrumb mixtures
used to coat fi llets of chicken or turkey.
■ Mix thyme with tomato, olive oil
and vinegar for a simple salad.
■ Try it in dough mixtures for breads
and scones.
Flavor Full!
These four common herbs represent only
a handful of literally hundreds of fl avor
combinations that can spice up your
dishes. Worried that students will turn
noses up at a dish with bits of herb
visible? You might try the traditional
French method for imparting herbal
fl avor to stews, broths, stocks and such as
they simmer: Create a bouquet garni.
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Herbs and spices are more than fl avorful alternatives to salt. Some of them offer
important health benefi ts. For example, a teaspoon of thyme contains the same amount of antioxidant as a carrot or a half-cup of chopped tomatoes! A single teaspoon of dried oregano leaves has as many antioxidants as 3 ozs. of almonds and a half-cup of chopped asparagus. (And even salt has some health benefi ts—after all, our bodies rely on salt for most basic functions!)
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Tie together sprigs of herbs—tradition-
ally parsley, thyme, bay and sometimes
rosemary—and, if you like, wrap them in
cheesecloth for easy removal after cooking.
Toss the bundle into a pot with your other
ingredients. It will lend the cooking liquid
the fl avors of the herbs. Remove it before
serving, and you get all of the fl avors
without the actual herbs remaining in the
food. In addition, the result is a milder and
more mellow fl avor than you’ll achieve
when adding chopped herbs to the dish.
Now is the time to be bold and spice up
your school menus. Make time to experi-
ment with herbs, spices and other fl avor
enhancers in your own home so you learn
what’s likely to have the best chance of
earning the approval of your customers.
Savory. Rich. Pungent. Intriguing. You
and your students can take the fi rst steps
to putting a halt on the salt. SN
Susan Davis Gryder is a freelance writer in Silver
Spring, Md. A number of the usage suggestions
courtesy of helpwithcooking.com. Herb images by
McCormick for Chefs. Photography on page 56-57
by Stockbyte.
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