Mushrooms Stuffed with Cream Cheese

Stuffed Mushrooms with Cream Cheese recipe

Mushrooms Stuffed with Cream Cheese

Course: Appetizer

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Mushrooms stuffed with cream cheese, Sausage stuffed mushrooms

Prep Time: 15

Cook Time: 20

Servings: servings

Calories: 441kcal

Author: Colleen Kennedy

If you enjoy stuffed mushrooms, this recipe is our favorite! Mushrooms Stuffed with Cream Cheese recipe is easy and flavorful and it can be adapted to a vegetarian stuffed mushroom easily!

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Ingredients

20 white/button mushrooms Numbers of mushrooms depends on their cap size
1 TBS olive oil
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 pound hot sausage, sweet sausage or chorizo casing removed or loose
8 oz cream cheese room temperature
¾ cup shredded mozzarella cheese or shredded Parmesan cheese
black pepper
red pepper flakes
sherry, cooking sherry, sake or dry white wine for bushing (optional)

Instructions

Clean your mushrooms and remove stems.
Slice just the very bottom of the woody/brittle end off of each mushroom stem then chop stems, set aside.
Heat your olive oil in a large sauté pan, add in your minced garlic and add your chopped mushroom stems in and sauté for 2 minutes, until wilted.
Remove mixture from pan and place in a large mixing bowl.
Sauté your sausage in the same pan, breaking it up till crumbly. Once cooked just about through (add in a little water or olive oil IF necessary) , scoop sausage out with slotted spoon (allowing excess grease to drip off, and add to mixing bowl with the mushroom stem mixture.
Cut your cream cheese into chunks and place the mixing bowl, with the hot sausage mixture and mix till combined
Add in your Parmesan cheese, pepper, and red pepper if using, toss until combined. Once the mixture is cool enough to handle, stuff each mushroom and place on a lightly oiled baking sheet. I also like to sprinkle salt and pepper on the baking sheet for a little flavor of the "top side" of the mushroom caps as they sit and bake. *Before stuffing, if you choose, brush inside of mushroom caps with a tiny bit of sherry, sake or dry white wine.
Either bake immediately or once cool, cover and refrigerate until ready to bake. Bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes (depending on the size of your mushrooms) or until done to your liking..
Place on a serving dish and enjoy while hot.

Notes

Nutrition calculated by 6 servings. If serving as an appetizer, people may only take one or two so the calories will be much less. Same goes for if someone grabs a large stuffed mushroom or a small stuffed mushroom. No real way to calculate.

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