Crispy flour taquito
AssigneeH.J. Heinz Company
InventorsAndrea Alcantara Lopez, Lucy Alvarado, Troy Bonata, James Matthews, W. Richard Dyer, Mark Rogers, Viviano Del Villar
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Abstract
Frozen taquitos are made on a commercial scale by preparing a flour-based tortilla dough, shaping that dough into generally circular tortillas, baking the tortillas, applying a strip of filling to each baked tortilla, rolling the baked tortilla around the filling to form a filled tortilla, coating the tortilla with batter, frying the batter-coated filled tortillas, and freezing them. To reconstitute, the frozen taquito can be heated in a microwave oven.
Claims19
A process for making a taquito including the steps of:
- providing a cooked tortilla having a filling;
- coating the cooked tortilla with a batter selected from the group consisting of a hydrocolloid batter and a batter mixture of flour and water;
- frying the coated, filled cooked tortilla to form a fully cooked, fried taquito;
- and
- freezing the fully cooked, fried taquito.
A taquito comprising:
- a fully cooked flour tortilla shell;
- a fully cooked filling;
- and
- a fully fried coating on the tortilla shell selected from the group consisting of a diluted hydrocolloid batter and a batter mixture of flour and water.
A process for making a taquito including the steps of:
- providing a cooked tortilla having a filling;
- coating the cooked tortilla with a batter mixture of flour and water;
- frying the coated, filled cooked tortilla to form a fully cooked, fried taquito;
- and
- freezing the fully cooked, fried taquito,
- wherein the step of providing a tortilla includes the steps of:
- blending flour based dry ingredients by mixing them;
- adding vegetable oil to the dry ingredients and mixing a second time;
- adding a liquid dough conditioner and starting a third mixing step;
- introducing water during the third mixing step using a volumetric control to obtain tortilla dough;
- shaping the tortilla dough into generally circular disks;
- and baking the generally circular disks.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.