National School Lunch Week is “Eggciting” with this Recipe Made with USDA Foods

This week is National School Lunch Week!

To celebrate National School Lunch Week, (October 12-16, 2015) we offering a sneak-peek of our upcoming Meals Plus Customer Cookbook. Every school district that uses Meals Plus cafeteria management software receives a free copy of the cookbook, and additional copies will be available for sale. The cookbook features tasty recipes for K-12 schools from Meals Plus Customers and Consultant Malissa Marsden, SNS, who creates school recipes using USDA Foods. Our featured recipe from Malissa is Egg Bistro Sandwich, created with the American Egg Board.

Egg Bistro Sandwich

Ingredients:

2 lb. 8 oz. hard-boiled eggs, sliced
1 lb. mixed baby greens
1 lb. 8 oz. fresh sliced tomatoes, RTU, 1/8” thick
20 pieces WGR Kaiser roll, 2 oz. eq. grain
2 1/2 c. honey mustard dressing

Directions:
1. Pull sheet pan and cover with parchment paper.
2. Pull eggs from cooler and place at workstation. CCP: Prepare foods at room temperature in two hours or less.
3. Slice eggs and place on sheet pan.
4. Pull Kaiser rolls and honey mustard dressing and place at work station.
5. Pull mixed greens and sliced tomatoes from cooler and place at workstation. Set up assembly line.
6. Spread each side of the Kaiser roll with 1/2 oz. or 1 tbsp. of honey mustard dressing.
7. Place 1/4 c. mixed greens or 0.8 oz. on Kaiser Roll bottom.
8. Add 2 slices of fresh tomato, 1.2 oz. total or 2 – 0.6 oz. pieces.
9. Top with 2 oz. of sliced whole eggs. CCP: Hold below 41 F.
10. Add roll top and place in sandwich container.
11. Wrap or drop in bag and date stamp.
12. Place in cooler and hold until service. CCP: Hold below 41 F.

Nutrients per serving:
Calories – 320
Chol. (mg) – 230
Sodium (mg) – 450
Fiber (gm) – 3
Iron (mg) – 2
Calc. (mg) – 80
Vit. A (IU) – 1574
Vit. C (mg) – 4
Protein (gm) – 11
Carb. (gm) – 29
Tot. Fat (gm) – 21
Sat. Fat (gm) – 3.5
Sugars (gm) – 0*
Trans. Fat (gm) – 0.000*

We are offering a sneak-peek of one recipe from our cookbook every day of NSLW, so stay tuned for more school lunch recipes! Click here for our other featured recipes, and check out the the School Nutrition Association’s NSLW 2015 Toolkit for free handouts, ideas to celebrate NSLW and more!