US 12,317,915 B2
Method for producing instant fried noodles
Sho Kitano, Osaka (JP); Eriko Kanai, Osaka (JP); and Mitsuru Tanaka, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to NISSIN FOODS HOLDINGS CO., LTD., Osaka (JP)
Appl. No. 15/761,683
Filed by NISSIN FOODS HOLDINGS CO., LTD., Osaka (JP)
PCT Filed Feb. 15, 2017, PCT No. PCT/JP2017/005416
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 20, 2018,
PCT Pub. No. WO2017/145885, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 31, 2017.
Claims priority of application No. 2016-032902 (JP), filed on Feb. 24, 2016; and application No. 2017-020108 (JP), filed on Feb. 7, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2018/0352838 A1, Dec. 13, 2018
Int. Cl. A23L 7/113 (2016.01); A23P 30/20 (2016.01); A21C 3/02 (2006.01)
CPC A23L 7/113 (2016.08) [A23P 30/20 (2016.08); A21C 3/024 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
 
1. A method for producing instant fried noodles, comprising:
making a noodle belt by adding kneading water to a raw material powder followed by kneading so as to make a dough, and extruding the dough through an extruder under normal pressure so as to make the noodle belt;
rolling out the noodle belt into a determined noodle thickness by a rolling operation performed no more than once or twice once or twice, each rolling operation using a pressing roller;
cutting the rolled out noodle belt with a cutting blade roller so as to obtain raw noodle strings;
steaming the raw noodle strings; and
drying the steamed raw noodle strings by frying so as to obtain the instant fried noodles,
wherein the noodle belt subjected to the rolling out is a single noodle belt made of the dough by the extruding,
a single rolling operation of the rolling out compresses the noodle belt at a compression ratio in a range of 90% or more, and
the single rolling operation is performed with a large-diameter pressing roller having a diameter in a range from 400 mm to 600 mm, and
wherein a fat or oil content of the fried noodles is reduced by 2.3% to 3.3% by weight compared with a fat or oil content of instant noodles prepared by using a pressing roller having a diameter of 90 mm for the single rolling operation.