PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a drying method for good-flavor dried meal of fish having holding flavor components because denaturation or losing of flavor or the flavor components occurs by high temperature heating or freeze processing in time of drying in conventional technology though the dried meal of the fish is used as a seasoning having high flavor.SOLUTION: This method for reducing fish to meal and drying it is a method for producing the dried meal including a process of performing the drying while stirring and cutting the fish as raw material under a vacuum or decompression condition.COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT【課題】魚類の粉末乾燥物は、風味を高く有する調味料として用いられるが、従来技術においては、乾燥時に高温加熱や凍結処理によって、風味またはうまみ成分の変性や消失が生じる。そのため、風味がよくうまみ成分を保持する乾燥方法が必要である。【解決手段】魚類を粉末乾燥する方法であって、魚類を原料とし、真空または減圧条件下にて、攪拌および切断しながら乾燥する工程を含む粉末状乾燥物の生産方法。【選択図】図1