Patent ID: 7455866

Claim:
A method for preserving vegetables comprising the steps: subjecting the vegetables to a heat treatment chosen from the group consisting of shallow frying, deep frying, roasting, IR heating, UV heating and baking or grilling in hot air, contacting the heat-treated vegetables with a preserving liquid, storing the vegetables with the preserving liquid until use, where the preserving liquid is an aqueous solution containing a preservative agent, an antioxidant, 1.5-2.5 wt. % of cooking salt, up to 10% of a sweetener and such amount of an edible acid that the pH of the liquid after 48 hours of equilibration with the immersed vegetables is in the range 4.3-4.4; and wherein the weight of vegetables stored in the preserving liguid to the weight of the preserving liguid is chosen in the range from 1:1.4 to 1:1.8.