PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a pasty food product production method and a pasty food product, having excellent texture even being produced from Japanese horseradish mainly and also having no possibility that veins remain in a mouth.SOLUTION: The Japanese horseradish which has been washed by water is preserved in salt, and then the salt water is removed (steps S2, S3). Then the Japanese horseradish is gradually cut by a cutting machine so as to have the width dimension of approximately 3 mm to 6 mm inclusive in one direction (step S7). The acquired belt-shaped pieces of the Japanese horseradish are aligned in the longitudinal direction respectively (step S8), and then they are cut by the cutting machine again so as to have the width of approximately 3 mm to 6 mm inclusive in a direction crossing to the cutting direction (step S9). The acquired plural pieces of minced Japanese horseradish are put in a mixer, and by the mixer, the pieces of Japanese horseradish are cut to be finer (step S10).COPYRIGHT: (C)2015,JPO&INPIT【課題】 葉山葵を主原料とした場合であっても、食感に優れ、葉脈が口の中に残る虞が無いペースト状食品を製造する方法、及びペースト状食品を提供する。【解決手段】 水洗した葉山葵を塩蔵し、塩水を除去した(ステップS2,S3)後、切断機にて葉山葵を一方向へ、互いに略3mm以上略6mm以下の幅寸法になるように漸次切断する(ステップS7)。得られた各帯状の葉山葵片の向きをそれぞれ長手方向へ揃えた(ステップS8)後、再び切断機にて前記切断方向と交わる方向へ、互いに略3mm以上略6mm以下の幅になるように切断する(ステップS9)。得られた複数のみじん切り状の葉山葵片をミキサーに投入し、該ミキサーにてより細かい葉山葵片になす(ステップS10)。【選択図】 図1
