Patent ID: 8025914

Claim:
A method for making an egg-based product comprising: blending an egg-based substance, pieces of supplemental food, and a thickening agent to produce therefrom an egg-based material, wherein the egg-based substance ranges from about 45 weight percent to about 98 weight percent of the egg-based material, and the supplemental food ranges from about 1 weight percent to about 30 weight percent of the egg-based material, and wherein the thickening agent absorbs water within the egg-based material and suspends the pieces of supplemental food within the egg-based materials; cooking the egg-based material until an egg component of the egg-based substance coagulates, thereby forming a coagulated egg mass with suspended pieces of supplemental food; cutting the coagulated egg mass into pieces; coating the pieces with batter and/or breading; and frying the pieces in a heated fat to produce a fried egg-based product.