Holy Cow Those Are Huge! Stuffed Mushrooms Recipe Not Just An Appetizer
I love me some fungi. There. I said it. What?? It’s good stuff! Ever been at a party and the appetizer tray comes around and they have gone out of their way to make a great stuffed mushrooms recipe, but you grab like 8 because they are just so good and then you get all these dirty looks for eating too many? Oh… just me? Well, I’ve come up with a solution that makes my tummy happy but also makes me look like way less of an appetizer hog! I made this easy stuffed mushrooms recipe with HUGE Portobello mushrooms and made a whole dinner! Ha! Take that simple appetizers!
Also, I used the very handy, dandy and quick Minute Ready To Serve Rice to make it even easier and perfect for a busy night at home! I took a great stuffed mushrooms recipe for appetizers, made some adaptions so it was not only easier for me on busy nights, but a whole, complete and healthy meal! But, I bet you could take this 1 step farther even and make it perfect for the vegetarians in your life too! Check this out and tell me it’s not just full of the awesome!
Stuffed Mushrooms Recipe
Ingredients:
- 6 HUGE Portobello Mushrooms (or, for appetizers, use 14 small)
- 1lb. Sausage (we used Italian seasoned roll sausage)
- 1/4 Cup Seasoned Bread Crumbs
- 2 Minute Ready To Serve Brown & Wild Rice Cups (so, so, so easy!!)
- 8oz Cream Cheese (softened, can use fat free too!)
- 2 TBSP Fresh Parsley (chopped fine)
- 1 TBSP Lemon Juice (fresh squeezed is best, of course)
- 2 Cloves Garlic (minced)
- 1/4 Cup Grated Parmesan Cheese (we used bagged, feel free to fresh grate!)
Directions:
Pre-heat oven to 400*. While that’s warming up wash up your mushrooms and remove stems (for small) Set all the caps aside. Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil and place mushroom caps evenly spaced out on top. In a medium skillet, crumble and thoroughly cook sausage. Drain off any grease and set aside. In a large mixing bowl, combine cream cheese, parsley, lemon juice and garlic until you have a nice smooth creamy mixture. Now, microwave up those easy Minute Ready To Serve cups. In the bowl with cream cheese mixture now add rice, bread crumbs, and sausage. Mix, mix, mix until all ingredients are well incorporated. Fill all mushroom caps with your filling and sprinkle grated Parmesan cheese on top. Bake for about 15 minutes (mushrooms will be tender but not mushy and cheese will be slightly browned.
Easy and delicious dinner when you add a simple veggie as a side dish! And way better than just an appetizer, right? Ya know what as I was just thinking as I typed this up? (for the non-vegetarians, of course) Bacon! Some nice crumbled bacon would be an awesome addition to this stuffed mushrooms recipe, huh?? Maybe next time!
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These look so yummy! I love mushrooms!
Haha- I love your banner!
My biggest complaint with Brown Rice is that it takes SOOO long! Who has an hour… to cook rice? It takes to much effort – glad to see there is a quick alternative.
Hope you are having a wonderful week,
Victoria
Drive Me Crazy Family Adventure
These look so yummy! What a great vegetarian recipe!
The hubster hates Mushrooms, but I might give this a go sometime. It looks good AND huge! 🙂 Thanks for sharing this with us! Love me some rice
Yum! These look amazing!
omg, they look delicious!!
Of course! I always think I need left over rice for recipes like this. Thanks for the reminder about ready to serve rice. 🙂
Ohmygosh I NEED those!!!! IN MY MOUTH RIGHT NOW!!
My husband would DIE to have this for dinner! It looks quite amazing! I love Minute Rice; they always make dinner prep so much easier!
Those mushrooms look delicious! I think I’ve found a new recipe to add to my ever growing list of things to make! 🙂
I love stuffed mushrooms and would like to give this a try. It looks pretty easy and so delicious!
These look so good – now I’m starving!
Oh my gosh, these are so creative and fun!!! I would have never thought using rice, and that will for sure be a nice filler! Thanks for sharing, and gotta love Minute Rice!!!
Ok, these are on the menu list for my visit….mmmmmmm
Made these tonight, 1st time ever eating mushrooms. Trying to try new veggies. Subbed ground turkey for the sausage, was delicious, although I’m still not crazy about the texture of the mushroom.
Hi Amy!
I’m glad they inspired you to try new things!1 Although, I agree… mushrooms can be… squishy! Thanks for popping in to let me know how yours turned out!!