Chicken Stewed with Matsutake 松茸炖鸡
Chicken Stewed with Matsutake is featured among the local specialties of Yunnan.
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Chicken Stewed with Matsutake (松茸炖鸡) combines sliced mushrooms with chicken broth in Diqing (迪庆), Yunnan (云南). Around Shangri-La (香格里拉), matsutake is valued for its strong fragrance and fresh flavour, and this soup is one of its documented local preparations.
How it is made
Wenlv Toutiao’s 2022 Shangri-La preparation begins with washed chicken pieces and sliced ginger in a pot. After bringing it to a boil over high heat, the cook stews it over medium heat for about fifty minutes. Sliced matsutake then goes in for another ten minutes, followed by salt to taste.
Flavour and texture
The mushroom aroma mingles with the rich chicken soup. Local matsutake cooking uses relatively few seasonings, keeping the flavour of the mushrooms prominent.
Sources & reading
Written from the linked sources and checked sentence by sentence against quoted extracts by a separate reviewer on 2026-09-30. Recipes and servings vary between kitchens.