Patent ID: 8668947

Claim:
A method for producing molded ready-to-prepare food items, the method comprising the steps of: combining a first preliminary product comprising individual frozen pieces of a first food and a second preliminary product comprising individual frozen pieces of a second food to form a single frozen starting product by: precompacting the frozen individual pieces of said first preliminary product in a premolding process so as to form a concavity in said first preliminary product; and placing the frozen individual pieces of said second preliminary product into a concave section of said first preliminary product precompacted to the concavity to form said single frozen starting product; introducing said single frozen starting product continuously or in batches into at least one mold cavity; and molding said single frozen starting product to form a ready-to-prepare frozen end product by compacting said single frozen starting product located in said at least one mold cavity so as to mold said ready-to-prepare food items.