PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for easily producing dried noodles capable of easily and producing dried noodles with a good yield which uses a roll type noodle-making machine, has the same or better transparent feeling as or than that of hand-extended noodle, has smooth taste, and has a texture having strong stiffness and resilience, and to provide a composition for noodle-making used in the method for producing the dried noodle.SOLUTION: There are provided a method for producing dried noodles which includes the steps of: preparing raw material flour containing wheat flour and a dough containing water to make noodles with a roll type noodle-making machine and drying the made noodles, where the raw material flour contains more than 10 mass% and less than 50 mass% of phosphoric acid-crosslinked starch based on the total mass of the raw material flour, the dough contains 0.005-0.05 pts.mass of an organic acid with respect to 100 pts.mass of the raw material flour, and an acid dissociation constant pKa of the organic acid to the water is 4.0-5.5, and a composition for noodle-making which contains wheat flour used in the production method, raw material flour containing a predetermined amount of phosphoric acid-crosslinked starch, and an organic acid, where the acid dissociation constant pKa of the organic acid to the water is 4.0-5.5.SELECTED DRAWING: NoneCOPYRIGHT: (C)2018,JPO&INPIT【課題】ロール式製麺機を用いて、手延べ麺と同等の高い透明感を有し、口当たりが滑らかで、コシ・弾力が強い食感を有する茹で麺が得られる乾麺を容易に、歩留まり良く製造する方法、及びその乾麺の製造方法に用いる製麺用組成物の提供。【解決手段】小麦粉を含む原料粉、及び水を含む生地を調製し、ロール式製麺機によって製麺する工程、及び製麺された麺を乾燥する工程を含む乾麺を製造する方法であって、原料粉が、原料粉の総質量を基準として、10質量%超、50質量%未満のリン酸架橋澱粉を含有し、生地が、原料粉100質量部に対して、0.005~0.05質量部の有機酸を含有し、有機酸の水に対する酸解離定数pKaが4.0~5.5である乾麺の製造方法、及びその製造方法に用いる小麦粉、及び所定量のリン酸架橋澱粉を含有する原料粉、並びに有機酸を含有し、有機酸の水に対する酸解離定数pKaが4.0~5.5である製麺用組成物。【選択図】なし
