More and more umami overflow! Why Nagano's local chicken is delicious

Many of the commercially available chicken we usually see are a special variety for meat called broilers. It was a breed improved with an emphasis on economics such as food and breeding, and was born in pursuit of efficiency and productivity, such as being able to ship with about 50 days breeding.
On the other hand, the mainstream, which is the mainstream, still has many voices seeking old -fashioned chicken chicken meat, so the Nagano Prefectural Livestock Production Station was developed in 2004 in 2004. Golden Shamo ". "Shamo", which has a reputation for tight meat quality and taste for the father chicken, and "Nagoya species (Nagoya coachin, etc.)", which has a rich flavor for the mother chicken, three "texture, umami, flavor". The taste of the local chicken, which is a local chicken, is that 10 successive champions of the "2015 Meat Industry Exhibition 11th Branch Chicken / Chicken Taste Contest" won the highest award in the Grand Champion Tournament, which determined the male and female.

Sasaki and his wife Nikoko. The poultry house is located in Anan Town, a neighboring town, and is particular about cleaning and giving river sand for chickens that use sand to crush food.

Landman Kokko (Iida City)
Yuki Sasaki
Currently, 14 poultry farmers are breeding Shinshu Kogane Shamo in the prefecture, but they offer their own Shinshu Kogane Shamo at the self -employed izakaya "Kiraku", and also participate in business sessions and local festivals. Yuki Sasaki is actively promoting PR.

Sasaki's most commitment is to mix about 2%lactic acid bacteria on food. It is said that the intestinal adjustment is promoted to make it a big body. A further commitment is a poultry building that is stacked on the foundation so that rainwater does not enter, and is higher than the surrounding ground. Thorough hygiene management, after shipment, all the inside of the poultry house was washed, sterilized the soil, and replaced the laid off (wood chips). In addition, when the chicken house is bright, the chicken gets excited, so we are considering that the chicken can spend calmly by shading and darkening. From the high breeding technology, it was recognized as the second in the poultry farming category in FY2017 and the first Shinshu meat Meister in Shinshu Kogane Shamo.

"It is the responsibility of the breeder to create a stress -free breeding environment."

Toyahara Farm (Higashi Michi)
Yuichi Takazawa
"Shinshu Kogane Shamo has less production and less well -known than Japan's three major chicken, so many people feel the taste and want to get out of" many other people "local chicken." This is Yuichi Takazawa, the representative of Toyahara Farm, which is the best shipment in the prefecture. The corporation is founded in 2017 and will be later, but Mr. Takazawa is a veteran who has been involved in the food bird industry for about 25 years inside and outside the prefecture. His hometown was called out in the sixth industrialization of local chicken, and the only business in the prefecture has been consistently performed from nurturing, processing and sales of Shinshu Golden Shamo.

(Left) Chicken house in chicks. We are also studying feed to add live bacteria and vitamins so that chicken grows more healthy.
(Right) Focus on total product power. Developed bacon (breast / peach meat) for gifts.

"It is only our strength that we can keep refrigerated in the prefecture constantly, and it tastes good.
Mr. Takazawa is currently studying long -term breeding. Normally, breeding scalpels shipped in about 120 days over 200 days will enhance the taste and the sweetness will be stronger. It seems that the response of the sample shipment is also good.
Shinshu Kogane Shamo, who grew up with plenty of natural blessings, represents local chicken in Nagano Prefecture. From the proud taste, you can feel the enthusiasm of the producers.

Mr. Osawa, who exhibited "Sanada Maru" in the meat industry exhibition in 2010, won the Executive Chair Award.

Oosawa Farm (Ueda City)Shigeo Osawa
The local chicken in Nagano Prefecture is not only Shinshu Golden Shamo. The local chicken produced in Ueda City, which gained popularity as the stage of the 2016 NHK taiga drama "Sanada Maru", is "Sanada Maru". The Nagano Prefectural Livestock Production Center produced "Shinano chicken" developed by combining Shamo and a white premas rock (broiler) as "Sanada Maru" has been breeding since 2004, and in 2007, registered as a trademark. Only "Osawa Farm" Shigeo Osawa.

Mr. Osawa sold a flat -breeded chicken egg while running a gift shop in the city. The connection with the community was deeply connected, and he began to keep "Sanada Maru" by working from the local chicken study group, which was established by the JA Shinshu Ueda and Ueda Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Shiodaira, where the poultry house of the Osawa farm is also called "Kamakura in Shinshu", has many venerable temples and temples.

The poultry house is a total of five buildings at the foot of Dokkko in Shiodaira, which is rich in nature. It is important to secure a relaxed chicken house and fresh water for breeding healthy chicken, so we always supply new water by creating a system that releases water into a spacious chicken house. In addition, it is difficult to worry about the smell of chicken dung etc. by cleaning each time it is shipped and spreading the poultry house that does not ferment it. Although it is a nervous and vigilant chicken, it is impressive in Osawa's poultry house that grows in a large space. In addition, Osawa also has Shinshu Golden Shamo, but Sanada Maru has a milder temperament, and the meat quality seems to be moist and soft.

Sanada Maru is characterized by the unique texture and juicy texture. It is often used in luxury hotels, inns, and restaurants, as it has a better fat than Shinshu Golden Shamo, so the meat quality does not change over time and does not impair the taste of the dishes. Why don't you enjoy the thickness and umami of the skin that is much different from the broiler?

1. Shinshu Golden Shamo
"Shinshu Kogane Chamogo" was named by a cooking researcher Yukio Hattori in 2005 and registered as an original brand of the prefecture because the baked color of the feather and the grilled dishes shines golden. The texture with the goodness of the meat of Shamo and the Nagoya species, the umami full of juwaches and gravy, and the amount of fat amount, healthy and refreshing aftertaste.

2. Chicken chicken
Developed Shamo at his father, white Premas Rock at Nagano Prefectural Livestock Production Center. It is easy to keep and has a strong rigidity, and is produced as specialty chicken in various places, such as "Sanada Maru", "Shinano Chicken", "Toyama Chicken", and "Minami Shinshu Dori".

3. Shinshu Kitarou Chicken
In Tatsuno -cho, surrounded by riverban hills built by the Alps and the Tenryu River, a military chicken left for about 140 days with water pumped from 300m underground and carefully selected. It is an original variety of "Hayashi Chicken Field", which has been working on the production of military chicken for nearly 30 years since the predecessor, and appeared in that gourmet manga masterpiece "Delicious Shinbo".