METHOD OF PREPARING MEAT OR MEAT-AND-PLANT GROUND HALF-FINISHED PRODUCT OR FARCE Russian patent published in 2001 - IPC

FIELD: meat industry. SUBSTANCE: method involves preparing and grinding meat or meat and plant raw material; preparing farce by mixing meat or meat and plant raw material and introducing prehydrated brewers' grain into cutter in the ratio of 1:3 - 3.5 in amount of 20-30 wt.% of total weight of raw material; adding salting and other components, as well as food additive composition containing essential oils and/or spice plant oleoresins, maltodextrin and/or glucose, sodium glutamate and/or sodium glutamate and inosinic acid mixture, and starch at predetermined component ratio; introducing fresh cleaned onion at final stage of preparing farce; forming mixture and directing for cooling or freezing. Method allows meat product or meat and plant ground half-finished products range to be widened by using brewery wastes (brewers' grain) as biologically active food additive, which is cheap substitute of plant and animal protein. EFFECT: simplified method, wider range of meat half-finished and quick-frozen products of improved quality and prolonged storage life. 4 tbl, 2 ex