DE20104287U1 - Complete ready-to-serve dish in the form of meat, sausage or vegetable salad - Google Patents

Description

Complete meal ready to eat in the form of meat, sausage or vegetable salad

The innovation relates to a novel ready-to-serve complete meal in the form of meat, sausage or vegetable salad according to the preamble of claim 1 and a container for holding such a meal.

Meat salad is usually eaten as a snack with a roll or bread, although two hands are usually not enough for a snack if the meat salad is eaten from a container, e.g. a deep-drawn plastic container, which is held with one hand while the other hand holds a fork to eat the meat salad. The roll or slice of bread that is eaten with it must therefore be constantly put down in alternation with the fork so that a portion of meat salad can be eaten with a bite of bread. This is uncomfortable and laborious when eating outdoors, e.g. at a picnic, during a work break on a construction site, or on a park bench, and is sometimes unhygienic and in any case impractical.

If a bread roll is cut open and meat salad is placed between both halves or between two slices of bread, and such a meat salad burger is not eaten immediately, the bread roll or the bread becomes soft or mushy because the moist component, e.g. the mayonnaise in the meat salad, penetrates the soft interior of the bread roll (or the slice of bread) and after a while also softens the crusty outside.

According to the innovation, this problem is solved by adding small pieces of bread or rolls to the meat or other salad in a roughly uniform distribution, which are made crusty by drying and/or heat treatment. The small pieces of bread or rolls are optionally toasted, baked, fried or provided with a thin edible coating, so that the moist mass of the meat salad does not or only very slowly penetrate through the crusty outer wall of the

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pre-treated bread or breadcrumbs or can penetrate the crusty pieces throughout. As practice has shown in the form of tests, the result is optimal from a consumption point of view when the small bread or breadcrumbs are slightly softened and juicy on the surface or outside, but crispy and crunchy on the inside.

The small pieces of bread or rolls that are mixed with the sauce or mayonnaise and the meat or vegetable ingredients in a meat, sausage or vegetable salad, for example, are pre-treated in such a way that they prevent the sauce or mayonnaise from penetrating the mixture and prevent it from getting soggy as much as possible. It has been found that pre-drying small pieces of bread or rolls, ie removing as much of the moisture as possible while keeping them crispy and crunchy, or roasting, baking or deep-frying these pieces of bread or rolls is a good way to do this. For example, fried "baking peas" are known in practice as a soup garnish, and their size and shape are also suitable for the purposes of this innovation. Alternatively, the small pieces of bread or rolls can also be provided with a coating after pre-treatment, e.g. drying and/or roasting, which can consist of edible material and which protects the crispy dough particles from softening.

In a further development of the innovation, it is proposed that the meat, sausage or vegetable salad of the conventional type be placed in one and the same packaging, but separated by a partition, with the small bread or breadcrumbs, so that both only come into contact with each other and are mixed when consumed, and the risk of the small breadcrumbs becoming soggy is completely eliminated. If such a variant of the innovation is chosen, it is sufficient to preserve the small breadcrumbs by drying them before filling, whereas the addition of the small breadcrumbs in the factory requires pre-treatment and preparation of the small breadcrumbs. This essentially depends on the taste of the consumer, so that a more intense or

less intensive pretreatment by drying, roasting, baking or frying.

In order to further simplify the consumption of such a salad with pickled bread or breadcrumbs, it is proposed to arrange a plastic fork on the top of the lid of the packaging or on one of the side walls of the packaging tray, e.g. welded in or enclosed in a film sleeve and attached to the container.

The innovation is shown below in conjunction with the drawing using an example of implementation. It shows:

Fig. 1 shows a schematic representation of a section of a meat salad mass with small breadcrumbs contained therein,

Fig. 2 is a side sectional view through a container with meat salad and small breadcrumbs mixed in, and

Fig. 3 is a top view of an opened container that holds meat salad and bread crumbs separately.

In the schematic representation according to Fig. 1, 1 indicates a meat or vegetable salad mixture in which small chunks 2 of dried bread or rolls are distributed approximately evenly. The ratio of meat or vegetables, sauce or mayonnaise and bread crumbs is chosen according to the common flavors for the respective product mixtures, so that the amount of bread added can be different for a vegetable salad, for example, than for a meat salad. The container 3 for holding the salad is closed by a lid 4, on the outside of which a fork 5 is arranged, wrapped in a film 6, which is added for eating the salad.

The embodiment according to Fig. 3 shows a variant of a container in which a partition wall 7 divides the container into two sections, one section 8 of which contains the salad

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in the traditional design and the other section has 9 small breadcrumbs for mixing into the salad.

The size of the small pieces of bread or rolls can vary between the size of peas and corn kernels and the size of small cherries, and is conveniently adapted to the dimensions of the solid side dishes of the meat or vegetable salad.

Claims (8)

1. A complete meal ready to eat in the form of a meat, sausage or vegetable salad with a solid portion distributed in a soft sauce or mayonnaise portion surrounding the solid particles, with a mixing ratio provided for in the respective recipe of the finished product, characterized in that the salad, in addition to the solid portion and the sauce portion, has as a further component small, dry bread or rolls evenly distributed over the entire salad mass. 2. Dish according to claim 1, characterized in that the bread or rolls are pre-dried. 3. Dish according to claim 1, characterized in that the bread or rolls are toasted. 4. Dish according to claim 1, characterized in that the bread or rolls are baked. 5. Dish according to claim 1, characterized in that the bread or breadcrumbs are deep-fried. 6. Dish according to claim 1, characterized in that the bread or rolls are provided with an edible coating which absorbs little or no moisture. 7. Meat, sausage or vegetable salad according to one of the preceding claims, packaged in a small container, characterized in that the package has a larger section containing the salad portion and a smaller section containing bread or breadcrumbs. 8. Meat, sausage or vegetable salad packaged in a small container according to claim 7, characterized in that a dining fork for eating the contents of the container is hermetically packed on the top of the lid or on one of the long side surfaces or is arranged hermetically sealed on the container.