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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2001
Tatsuya Yamamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Katsumi Matsuzaki, Tokyo, JP;
Kensuke Furuyama, Tokyo, JP;
Toshifumi Andou, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuo Takemura, Tokyo, JP;
Akira Tamegai, Tokyo, JP;
Ajinomoto Co., Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The frozen food product according to the present invention contains as a major ingredient boiled rice grains or boiled pasta pieces; a water migration-preventing layer formed on the surface of each rice grain or boiled pasta; and a sauce layer formed on the surface of the water migration-preventing layer, and the product is frozen in such a state. In the frozen food product described above, rice grains or pasta pieces contained as the major ingredient are mixed homogeneously with a sauce, and if the frozen food is packaged portionwise, the resulting packaged products can give stable quality where the major ingredient and the sauce are blended at a constant rate. This frozen food product can be manufactured by carrying out a step of admixing a primary sauce to the major ingredient so as to form a water migration-preventing layer; a step of freezing the thus treated major ingredient; a step of admixing a secondary sauce to the resulting major ingredient; and a step of freezing the resulting major ingredient.