METHOD OF NUTS PREPARATION Russian patent published in 2003 - IPC

FIELD: food industry, particularly, methods of products preparation. SUBSTANCE: method may be used for preparing food products with high content of proteins and fats possessing various flavor characteristics, particularly, roasted nuts with various flavor additives. Nuts are roasted up to moisture content of 1.8-4.2 mas.%. Roasted nuts are placed in a polishing pan, and coated with a layer of thickener which mass is 1.7-3.3% from mass of roasted nuts. Then nuts are powdered by powder-like flavor additive which mass is 2.7-8.5% from mass of roasted nuts. Treated nuts with applied coating are dried for 2-6 min by air at temperature of 45-55 C, and then, for 5-12 min at temperature of 16-22 C. EFFECT: new highly-nutritious food products with original taste. 9 cl, 6 ex