Restoration is good, even noodles noodles thick chunky enough not in the conventional, to produce instant noodles taste good mouthfeel can be restored by pouring boiling water. It was noodle raw noodle having a multilayer structure of three or more layers, spraying superheated steam for the raw noodle strings However α noodle which the superheated steam is sprayed, and drying the noodle strings are α of at, I to produce instant noodles. It by after blowing superheated steam, by supplying liquid water to the noodle strings, and heating the noodle strings using saturated steam and superheated steam and / or addition to α of preferably.復元性が良く、従来にないほどの分厚い麺厚の麺であっても、熱湯注加によって復元可能で食味食感の良い即席麺を製造する。三層以上の多層構造を有する生麺線を製麺し、前記生麺線に対し過熱蒸気を吹き付け、前記過熱蒸気が吹き付けられた麺線をα化し、α化された麺線を乾燥させることで、即席麺を製造する。過熱蒸気を吹き付けた後、麺線に水分を液体で供給して、さらに過熱蒸気および/または飽和蒸気を用いて麺線を加熱することでα化することが好ましい。