Baked Stuffed Mushrooms
User Reviews
4.9
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Prep Time
15 mins
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Cook Time
25 mins
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Servings
2 servings
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Cuisine
Australian
Baked Stuffed Mushrooms
Description
This baked stuffed mushrooms recipe uses large field mushrooms as vessels filled with a combination of crumbled feta cheese, toasted pine nuts, poached garlic, diced golden onions, chopped chili, and basil mixed into rough breadcrumbs. The blend balances creamy, nutty, spicy, and herbal notes. Topping each stuffed mushroom with butter before baking adds moisture and a golden finish.
The accompanying sugo sauce is a classic tomato sauce prepared by sweating onions and garlic in olive oil, then cooking tomato paste briefly before deglazing with white wine. Chopped fresh and canned crushed tomatoes are simmered to develop flavor with basil, and the sauce is seasoned to taste. This sauce complements the richness of the stuffed mushrooms with bright acidity and herbaceous notes.
Baked at a high temperature, the mushrooms become tender and juicy, while the stuffing crisps gently on top. The dish can serve as an appetizer or a side, offering a blend of textures and balanced flavors from the cheese, nuts, herbs, and tomato sauce.
Ingredients
- 8 lices bread
- 4 field mushrooms large
- 50 grams fetta cheese crumbled, Binnorie brand
- 1 chilli remove seeds, chopped
- 20 grams pine nuts toasted
- 5 cloves garlic poach in olive oil, poached
- 50 grams onion cook until golden, diced
- 10 basil chopped, leaves
- salt to taste
- black pepper to taste
- 20 grams butter
Sugo sauce:
- 2 tomato chopped
- 125 grams tomato crushed, canned
- 20 grams tomato paste
- 50 grams onion
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 30 millilitres white wine
- SEASONING to taste
- 5 basil chopped, leaves
Instructions
How To Prepare The Stuffing:
- Blend bread to a rough consistency. Mix in a bowl with fetta, chillies, garlic, onion, basil & pine nuts ( mix with hands ).
- Remove stalks from mushrooms & place mix into mushrooms.
- Top mushrooms with butter and bake at 200 degrees C/ 392 ℉ for 15 minutes.
How To Prepare the Sugo Sauce
- Place onions & garlic in pan with oil and sweat, add tomato paste & cook for 2 minutes.
- Deglaze pan with wine then add fresh & canned tomatoes, cook for 10 min.
- Add basil & season to taste.
Notes
User Reviews
Overall Rating
4.9
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