PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide processed cooked rice which can obtain food feeling of just-cooked rice only by heat treatment, is easy in being loosened, has good appearance, can cope with various uses such as cooked rice cooked with cooked or uncooked ingredients of vegetables and meat and/or fish, and can clear the problem of zero rice cooking time.SOLUTION: There is provided the processed cooked rice, which is provided by adding water to pregelatinized rice to have the optimum moisture value in the range of 50-65 wt.%, also adding a predetermined amount of water-soluble polysaccharides, vacuum-packaging it with a container and pressure/heat-cooking it for 4-90 min at 80-130°C wherein the pregelatinized rice is quickly cookable rice provided by gelatinizing a part of rice starch at 5-50 wt.% moisture value and cooling it on an aseptic state. The processed cooked rice can obtain the food feeling of just-cooked rice only by heat treatment, is easy in being loosened, has good appearance, can cope with various uses such as cooked rice cooked with ingredients of vegetables and meat and/or fish irrespective of a cooked condition of the ingredients, and can clear the problem of zero rice cooking time.COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT【課題】加熱だけで、炊き立てのご飯の食感を得、ほぐしが容易で見た目も良く、具材が調理済み、未調理に関係なく具材入り炊き込みご飯など、多種多様の用途に対応させ得て、しかも炊飯時間ゼロの命題もクリアーすることのできる加工米飯を提供する。【解決手段】水分値が5~50重量%で米の澱粉の一部をアルファー化し且つ無菌状態で冷却してなる早炊き米である、アルファー化米に対し、50~65重量%での最適水分値となるように水を加え、所定量の水溶性多糖類も加えて容器で真空包装し、80~130℃の温度で4~90分間加圧加熱調理することで、加熱だけで、炊き立てのごはんの食感を得、ほぐしが容易で見た目も良く、具材の調理具合に関係なく具材入り炊き込みご飯など、多種多様の用途に対応出来、炊飯時間ゼロの命題もクリアーできる。
