Patent ID: 7731999

Claim:
A process of producing a fried-like cooked food without a deep-frying step, which comprises: coating the surface of an unfried food with a fat composition for coating a food to be cooked by spraying, or immersing the unfried food in oil containing the fat composition, to obtain a coated unfried food, and then subjecting the coated unfried food to radiation heating or superheated steam heating, wherein: the food to be cooked is coated with a coating material of batter and/or bread crumbs prior to cooking, the fat composition consists essentially of a fat and an agent for reducing the contact angle of the resulting fat composition to 0.7 times or less that of a fat having nearly the same slip melting point as the fat composition, and the contact angle is measured at ambient temperature when said composition is in liquid form at ambient temperature or at a temperature 10° C. higher than the slip melting point when said composition is in semi-solid or solid form at ambient temperature.