Cooking method for simultaneously cooking foods

Abstract

A method of preparing a food dish simultaneously cooking a food item with rice, wherein the food item is seasoned or flavoured by placing food and seasoning or flavouring ingredients inside a cook-in bag, sealing the cook-in bag, placing the sealed cook-in bag in a cooking appliance, and wherein the rice is placed in the cooking appliance either before or after the cook-in bag is placed in the cooking appliance, and the food item and the rice are cooked together. A cooking kit for use in the method comprising a cook-in bag provided together with a sachet containing seasoning or flavouring ingredients.

1 . A method of preparing a food dish by simultaneously cooking a food item with rice, comprising seasoning the food item by placing food and seasoning or flavoring ingredients inside a cook-in bag, sealing the cook-in bag, placing the sealed cook-in bag in a cooking appliance, wherein the rice is placed in the cooking appliance either before or after the cook-in bag is placed in the cooking appliance, and the food item and the rice are cooked together. 
     
     
         2 . A method as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the food item and the rice are cooked for 10 to 90 minutes. 
     
     
         3 . A method as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein water is added to the cooking appliance to aid cooking of the rice. 
     
     
         4 . A method as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the seasoning or flavoring ingredients are selected from the group consisting of fermented ingredients, spices, taste enhancers, and Chinese functional ingredients. 
     
     
         5 . A method as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the seasoning or flavoring ingredients comprise an ingredient selected from the group consisting of thickeners, binders, and food coloring agents. 
     
     
         6 . A method as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein the cooking appliance is selected from the group consisting of a conventional oven, a microwave oven, an electric rice cooker, a stove-top rice cooker, a pressure cooker and a steamer. 
     
     
         7 . A cooking kit comprising a cook-in bag provided together with a sachet containing seasoning or flavoring ingredients, or a combination of seasoning and flavoring agents that can perform a method of preparing a food dish by simultaneously cooking a food item with rice, comprising seasoning the food item by placing food and seasoning or flavoring ingredients inside a cook-in bag, sealing the cook-in bag, placing the sealed cook-in bag in a cooking appliance, wherein the rice is placed in the cooking appliance either before or after the cook-in bag is placed in the cooking appliance, and the food item and the rice are cooked together. 
     
     
         8 . A cooking kit as claimed in  claim 7 , wherein the cook-in bag and the sachet are packaged together. 
     
     
         9 . A cooking kit as claimed in  claim 7 , wherein the cook-in bag is provided tightly folded. 
     
     
         10 . A cooking kit as claimed in  claim 7 , wherein the seasoning or flavoring ingredients are selected from the group consisting of fermented ingredients, spices, taste enhancers, and Chinese functional ingredients. 
     
     
         11 . A cooking kit as claimed in  claim 7 , wherein the seasoning or flavoring ingredients further include an ingredient selected from the group consisting of thickeners, binders, and food coloring agents. 
     
     
         12 . A cooking kit as claimed in  claim 7 , wherein the seasoning or flavoring ingredients are in the form selected from the group consisting of a cube, a powder, granules, a liquid, and a paste. 
     
     
         13 . A cooking kit as claimed in  claim 7 , wherein the cook-in bag is made of a monolayer film formed from 99 wt % or more of polyester. 
     
     
         14 . A cooking kit as claimed in  claim 13 , wherein the monolayer film has an oxygen transmission of 110-168 cm 3 /m 2 ·d·atm at 23° C., and a water vapour transmission rate of 25-40 g/m 2 ·d at 38° C. 
     
     
         15 . A cooking kit as claimed in  claim 7 , wherein the cook-in bag is provided with a sealing device.