PROCESS FOR PRODUCING RICE NOODLES USING JAPONICA RICE AS THE STARTING MATERIAL AND RICE NOODLES PRODUCED BY THIS PRODUCTION METHOD

摘要

It is intended to produce rice noodles by using brown Japonica rice as the starting material while overcoming disadvantages of the existing products produced by using polished Japonica rice as the starting material. The above process is characterized by comprising mixing Japonica rice flour, starch and water to give a noodle dough, extruding the noodle dough having a low viscosity into hot water to give noodles and gelatinizing the same, and then freezing and thawing the noodles. More specifically speaking, a process for producing rice noodles characterized by comprising: the noodle dough preparation step of adding water to Japonica rice flour and further mixing starch to prepare a noodle dough; the viscosity control step of controlling the viscosity of the noodle dough; the noodle-forming step of pouring the noodle dough, the viscosity of which has been controlled, into a container provided with small holes at the bottom face and extruding the dough through the small holes into hot water to form noodles by heating; the freezing step of freezing the noodles; the thawing step of thawing the thus frozen noodles; and the drying step of drying the thawed noodles; and rice noodles which are produced by this production process.