摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a processed food of fish meat, capable of providing a palatability resembled to a crude ham of a processed food of meat, and being a food of delicate flavor at a short time by treating a specific undried fish meat with a specified solid koji, in which filamentous fungi are grown, under an aerobic condition. SOLUTION: (A) An undried fish meat comprising a raw fish meat or a heated fish meat is treated with (B) a solid koji obtained by growing filamentous fungi in an amount regulated so that the ratio of the components A/B may be (3-1) pts.wt./(1-3) pts.wt., in the presence of (C) common salt under an aerobic condition preferably at a temp. of 25-50 deg.C in 40-95% humidity for 1-4 weeks, and simultaneously carrying out three steps of pickling in salt, drying, and fermentation and maturing, to provide the objective processed food of the fish meat. A bonito, a tuna, a yellowtail, a salmon, a mackerel, a horse mackerel, a carp, a crucian carp or the like is cited as the kind of the fish usable as the component A. The filamentous fungi are microorganisms belonging to Penicillium, Eurotium, Aspergillus, monascus or the like. Rice, wheat, bran or the like is cited as the substrate for the koji. |