Pengaruh Pengeringan Terhadap Mutu Nasi Uduk Instan

Abstract

Rice is the staple food for most of Indonesian. The production of rice increases every years. In 2010, the production of rice was about 65,98 billion ton,while consumtion of rice is 139,5 kg/capital/ year. Based on these data, the development of rice product is a potential market. Nowadays many people do not have much time to prepare their food. Instant food is commonly choosed by the modern people. Quick cooking rice methods have been commonly used since 1970, but their products are not popular in Indonesia. The purpose of this research is to produce a quick cooking rice with special taste native to West Sumaterae, called “nasi uduk”. The preparation involves soaking, cooking (gelatinizing) and drying using fluidized bed dryer.This research was focused on to find out the optimum drying conditions or treatment to produce the good quality of quick cooking rice. This research used three different drying treatments, namely A,B, and C treatment which were based on combination of time and temperature history. It was found that the optimum of drying method was the A tratment. In the A treatment, the rice was freezed for 24 hours at -20°C. After that, rice was dried for 30 minutes at room temperature and then increased the temperature strart from 40°C, 60°C, and 80°C for 10 minutes in each temperature. This method resulted in a good acceptance from panelists.