PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for producing a frozen tea gruel maintaining the flavor and color characteristic of tea, excellent in texture and taste and easily capable of thawing it with an electronic oven.SOLUTION: Provided is a method for producing a frozen tea gruel including: a cooling step of rapidly cooling a white gruel boiled by the conventional method with a gruel soup to 25°C or lower a mixing step of adding components originated from tea to the white gruel after the cooling and mixing them and a rapid freezing step of rapidly freezing the gruel obtained by mixing the white gruel and the components derived from tea to -40°C or lower within 20 min. According to the production method, the frozen tea gruel in which the discoloration of tea is suppressed, the flavor and color derived from tea are maintained, being excellent in texture and taste and also easily capable of thawing under heating with an electronic oven can be provided.COPYRIGHT: (C)2016,JPO&INPIT【課題】茶本来の風味、色を保持し、食感、食味に優れ、電子レンジで手軽に解凍できる冷凍茶粥の製造方法を提供する。【解決手段】常法で炊かれた白粥を粥汁と共に25℃以下に急速冷却する冷却工程と、冷却後の白粥に茶由来成分を添加して混合する混合工程と、白粥と茶由来成分とを混合した粥を、-40℃以下に20分以内で急速冷凍する急速冷凍工程と、を含む冷凍茶粥の製造方法。当該製造方法によれば、茶の変色が抑制され、茶本来の風味、色を保持し、食感、食味に優れ、かつ、電子レンジでより手軽に加熱解凍できる冷凍茶粥が提供される。【選択図】なし
