Process for preparing a dehydrated potato product directly from raw potato
Abstract
Abstract A process for the manufacture of a dehydrated potato product directly from raw potato without requiring the addition of any binder which is suitable for hot oil cooking or frying wherein a slurry of ground raw potato is formed having a moisture content of about 80 percent, the water content of the slurry then being reduced to at least 50 percent by application of vacuum at a temperature below the temperature of gelatinization of the potato particles. The mass is then heated or cooked at a temperature sufficiently high to gelatinize the product, the latter then being dried to a moisture content of about 6 percent to twelve percent. The critical step of dehydration by vacuum evaporation achieves proper plasticity of the mass while at the same time prevents browning of the product normally occurring due to enzymatic action, or oxidative influence or both.
Inventors
- 👤 Charles E Sech
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