Preparation of breading product and breaded foodstuffs for oven-cooking

A process for preparing a breadcrumb-coated food product comprising:

• introducing ingredients comprising a ground cereal, a reducing sugar, a fat and water into an extruder so that the ingredients have a dry matter content of at least 75% by weight and extrusion-cooking the ingredients at a temperature of at least 150° C. and under a pressure of at least 45 bar to obtain an extruded, cooked products;
• grinding the extruded, cooked product to obtain a ground particulate product;
• drying the ground particulate product to obtain a dried product;
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• wherein the fat is introduced in an amount and the ingredients are extrusion-cooked, the extruded, cooked product is ground and the particulate product is dried so that the dried product has a fat content of from 7% to 12% by weight;
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• coating the dried product on a food to obtain a coated food product.