Menu and Recipe Manu.. - The Early Childhood Commission

DAY 3
24
Recipes for General Menus
Chili Con Carne with Mixed Vegetables
(Food From Animals, Legumes & Vegetables)
Ingredients Metric Standard Measure Instructions
Red Kidney Beans 240 g 8 oz 1 cup 1. Pour beans into a bowl, search and remove any foreign material.
2. Wash beans under running water.
Water 720 ml 24 oz 3 cups 3. Place beans in a pot with water and allow to boil until it is tender (90
minutes).
Salt 2 g ½ tsp
4. Remove from heat.
Tomato 180 g 6 oz 3 small 5. Clean and wash onion, garlic, peppers and tomato under running water.
Onion 60 g 2 oz 1 med 6. Peel/strip country pepper thinly and discard seed and inner part.
Sweet pepper 30 g 1 oz 1 small
7. Remove outer layers from sweet pepper and discard seeds and inner part.
8. On a cutting board, coarsely chop tomato, pepper, onion and garlic.
Country pepper 7 g ¼ oz ½ small
Garlic 5 g 2 cloves
Lean Minced Beef 480 g 1 lb 2 cups 9. Combine minced beef with chopped seasoning, salt and black pepper in a
Salt 2 g ½ tsp
stainless steel bowl.
Black pepper 1 g ¼ tsp
Oil 15 g ½ oz 1 Tbsp 10. In a sauce pan, heat oil over medium heat.
11. Add seasoned minced beef to oil.
12. Stir constantly until minced beef start to change colour.
13. Cook for 10 minutes stirring frequently.
14. Add the cooked beans to the sauce pan with minced beef.
15. Cover and cook for 30 minutes.
Menu and Recipe Manual for Early Childhood Institutions