COOKING METHOD FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY COOKING FOODS

• US 20130224342A1
• Filed: 10/25/2011
• Published: 08/29/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/01/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nestec SA (Nestle SA)
• Original Assignee: Nestec SA (Nestle SA)
• Inventors: Lian Hwee Peng, Rebecca
• Application Number:
  US13/882,700
• Publication Number:
  US 20130224342A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 426/113
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 23/00 Soups; Sauces soya sauce A23L27/50; salad dressings, mayonnaise or ketchup A23L27/60; Preparation or treatment thereof
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 27/10 Natural spices, flavouring agents or condiments; Extracts thereof
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 27/14 Dried spices
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 27/88 Taste or flavour enhancing agents
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 5/13 using water or steam
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 5/42 Addition of dyes or pigments, e.g. in combination with optical brighteners
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 7/196 Products in which the original granular shape is maintained, e.g. parboiled rice
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 7/197 Treatment of whole grains not provided for in groups A23L7/117 - A23L7/196 preservation A23B9/00
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 81/3415 specially adapted to be heated in hot water, e.g. boil pouches dissolvable packages B65D65/46; packaging articles or materials intended to be mixed or infused with a liquid B65D85/808
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 81/3438 specially adapted to be heated by steaming

Abstract

A method of preparing a food dish simultaneously cooking a food item with rice, wherein the food item is seasoned or flavoured by placing food and seasoning or flavouring ingredients inside a cook-in bag, sealing the cook-in bag, placing the sealed cook-in bag in a cooking appliance, and wherein the rice is placed in the cooking appliance either before or after the cook-in bag is placed in the cooking appliance, and the food item and the rice are cooked together. A cooking kit for use in the method comprising a cook-in bag provided together with a sachet containing seasoning or flavouring ingredients.

Claims

1. A method of preparing a food dish by simultaneously cooking a food item with rice, comprising seasoning the food item by placing food and seasoning or flavoring ingredients inside a cook-in bag, sealing the cook-in bag, placing the sealed cook-in bag in a cooking appliance, wherein the rice is placed in the cooking appliance either before or after the cook-in bag is placed in the cooking appliance, and the food item and the rice are cooked together.

2. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the food item and the rice are cooked for 10 to 90 minutes.

3. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein water is added to the cooking appliance to aid cooking of the rice.

4. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the seasoning or flavoring ingredients are selected from the group consisting of fermented ingredients, spices, taste enhancers, and Chinese functional ingredients.

5. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the seasoning or flavoring ingredients comprise an ingredient selected from the group consisting of thickeners, binders, and food coloring agents.

6. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the cooking appliance is selected from the group consisting of a conventional oven, a microwave oven, an electric rice cooker, a stove-top rice cooker, a pressure cooker and a steamer.

7. A cooking kit comprising a cook-in bag provided together with a sachet containing seasoning or flavoring ingredients, or a combination of seasoning and flavoring agents that can perform a method of preparing a food dish by simultaneously cooking a food item with rice, comprising seasoning the food item by placing food and seasoning or flavoring ingredients inside a cook-in bag, sealing the cook-in bag, placing the sealed cook-in bag in a cooking appliance, wherein the rice is placed in the cooking appliance either before or after the cook-in bag is placed in the cooking appliance, and the food item and the rice are cooked together.

8. A cooking kit as claimed in claim 7, wherein the cook-in bag and the sachet are packaged together.

9. A cooking kit as claimed in claim 7, wherein the cook-in bag is provided tightly folded.

10. A cooking kit as claimed in claim 7, wherein the seasoning or flavoring ingredients are selected from the group consisting of fermented ingredients, spices, taste enhancers, and Chinese functional ingredients.

11. A cooking kit as claimed in claim 7, wherein the seasoning or flavoring ingredients further include an ingredient selected from the group consisting of thickeners, binders, and food coloring agents.

12. A cooking kit as claimed in claim 7, wherein the seasoning or flavoring ingredients are in the form selected from the group consisting of a cube, a powder, granules, a liquid, and a paste.

13. A cooking kit as claimed in claim 7, wherein the cook-in bag is made of a monolayer film formed from 99 wt % or more of polyester.

14. A cooking kit as claimed in claim 13, wherein the monolayer film has an oxygen transmission of 110-168 cm³/m²·

d·

atm at 23°

C., and a water vapour transmission rate of 25-40 g/m²·

d at 38°

C.

15. A cooking kit as claimed in claim 7, wherein the cook-in bag is provided with a sealing device.