Dehydrated refried bean product and methods of manufacture

摘要

Processes for producing a dried leguminosae to form an instantly reconstitutable product having the appearance texture and consistency of conventionally prepared commestibles are disclosed. In the production of these commestibles, the leguminosae are cooked in a manner to maintain the skin generally intact and subsequently non-comminutively pressed to minimize grittiness and graininess of the resultant product. The pressed product is of sufficient thickness to facilitate rapid dehydration and rapid reconstitution to provide a resultant reconstituted product which assimilates the organoleptic characteristics of conventionally prepared non-dehydrated product.