Adelle Davis Recipes, Let's Eat Dinner, Recipes

Recipe:  Spanish Rice with Meat and Carrots

“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#:  191

Amount for 4 servings:

2 tbsp                    Vegetable Oil

1/2 cup                 White onions, raw, chopped

1/2 cup                 Celery, diced

1/2 cup                 Green bell peppers, chopped

1 cup                     Beef stock

1.5 tsp   Salt

1 cup                     Long grain rice, dry

1/2 tsp                  Cumin seed

1/2 tsp                  Ground basil

1/2 tsp                  Ground oregano

1/2 lb.                   Extra lean ground beef, raw

1/2 cup                 Carrots, raw, chopped