Adelle Davis Recipes, Let's Eat Dinner

Recipe:  Traditional Chili

“Let’s Cook it Right” is a celebrated cookbook dedicated to good health, good sense, and good eating. Adelle Davis believed that food should first and foremost be delicious.  This cookbook is full of ways to prepare fresh foods of all kinds in the most minimally-impacted, health preserving manner.  This book contains easy to follow recipes, a table of equivalents and an index.  The nutritional facts below were prepared by the graduate students at Cal State Los Angeles’ School of Kinesiology and the Nutritional Science program.

Let’s Cook it Right Page#:  179

Amount for 4 servings:

1/4 cup                 Vegetable oil

3/4 cup                 White onions, raw, chopped

1/2 cup                 Green bell peppers, raw

2                              Garlic cloves

2 cup                     Kidney beans, canned

1 lb.                       Ground beef, raw

1 tsp.                     Chili powder

1 tsp.                     Cumin seed, ground

1 cup                     Tomato puree, canned

2 tsp.                     Salt

1/2 tsp.                 Ground oregano