The invention relates to the field of
food processing, in particular to milk-flavored ready-to-eat freeze-dried Chinese chestnut slices and a
processing method thereof. The
processing method of the milk-flavored ready-to-eat freeze-dried Chinese chestnut slices comprises the following steps of selecting Chinese chestnuts, cooking the selected Chinese chestnuts, and peeling the cooked Chinese chestnuts; performing whole-fruit color protection on Chinese chestnut pulp; after color protection is finished,
cutting the Chinese chestnuts into Chinese chestnut slices, and then performing color protection again; soaking the Chinese chestnut slices after color protection treatment in
fresh milk,
fishing out the Chinese chestnut slices from the
fresh milk, and then pre-freezing the Chinese chestnut slices fished out of the
fresh milk; and then freeze-
drying the pre-frozen Chinese chestnut slices so as to obtain the milk-flavored ready-to-eat freeze-dried Chinese chestnut slices. According to the
processing method of the milk-flavored ready-to-eat freeze-dried Chinese chestnut slices disclosed by the invention, the Chinese chestnut slices are soaked in the milk, so that the mouth feel of the milk-flavored ready-to-eat freeze-dried Chinese chestnut slices is improved, and the
nutrient value of the slices is increased; compared with various cooking technologies, a freeze-
drying processing technology has the
advantage that original
nutrient components and original fragrance components of Yanshan Chinese chestnuts are furthest reserved; the prepared milk-flavored ready-to-eat freeze-dried Chinese chestnut slices have the characteristics of being mild in mouth feel, fresh and elegant in
flavor, high in
palatability and broad in target audiences.