🍱 Tori Meshi

“Tori Meshi” is a rice seasoned and cooked with vegetables and chicken meat and has been a popular recipe for years, particularly as a farmer's dish. It is often eaten during short breaks when harvesting or engaging in farmwork. The rice is made into rice balls so that a family member can easily give the rice ball to someone working hard in a field. The people of Miyazaki and other areas of Kyushu eat a lot of chicken meat and this dish is enjoyed daily. When many people gather for an event, the dish is prepared in a large pot. The number of broilers raised in Miyazaki ranked number 1 in Japan in 2018. This dish has long been eaten in the town of Shintomi of central Miyazaki prefecture. To pass on this tradition, an association of farmers who inherited the traditional recipe participated in the “Gotochi (=local) Gourmet Contest” held in 2011 and won. “Tori Meshi” is also know as “Kasuga Zushi” which comes from the Kasuga district of Shintomi-cho.