DISH RESEARCH · Main dish
Kashiwameshi
Also known as: かしわめし
Fukuoka’s health-promotion recipe published by MAFF combines cooked rice with chicken breast, burdock, carrot and shiitake, finishing it with spring-onion shoots; its four listed additional seasonings have an unspecified addition step.
About Kashiwameshi
Research draft based on the references below. These notes describe particular recipes and presentations; ingredient connections are still being reviewed.
MAFF’s Fukuoka entry presents kashiwa-meshi as chicken and vegetables combined with cooked rice. This selected health-promotion recipe uses chicken breast and finishes with spring-onion shoots.
Rice is washed, left to stand with its own water portion and cooked separately. Chicken is cut into small diagonal pieces, burdock into slivers and carrot finely chopped.
Dried shiitake are rehydrated, squeezed and chopped, with their liquid kept. Sesame oil starts the chicken sauté before the same vegetables and mushrooms join and simmer with that retained liquid.
Sake, sugar, mirin and soy sauce are also listed as seasonings, although their addition step is absent from the written method. The prepared chicken-and-vegetable mixture joins the cooked rice, with spring-onion shoots on top.
The entry explicitly describes enjoying kashiwa-meshi chilled, the serving option selected here. It also identifies home meals, gatherings, school lunches and railway bentos among its present-day settings.
Ingredients in Kashiwameshi
Recorded ingredient connections, rather than a complete recipe. Explore an ingredient for more detail.
- Short-grain ricebase
- Chickenprotein
- Soy Sauceseasoning
- Dashi stockseasoning
- Carrotbase
- Burdock Rootbase
- Waterbase
- Shiitake mushroomseasoning
Ingredient connections awaiting review. Versions and preparation vary.
Origins & food traditions
Explore the countries and cooking traditions associated with this dish. These connections do not establish a single birthplace or limit where the dish is eaten today.
Countries
Cuisines & regions
Associations in the cited sources
These describe source-specific cultural or geographic connections. Catalogue links may still need review.
- Cooking traditions
- Fukuoka / City Health and Welfare Bureau chicken rice recipe
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.