Featured Recipe: Green Garlic Stuffed Mushrooms
Green Garlic Stuffed Mushrooms photo by In Pat's Kitchen
Who doesn’t love stuffed mushrooms and what an ingenious was to use the bounty of beautiful spring vegetables that we are so fortunate to have this time of year. I think Pat hit the nail on the head with this lovely recipe. What a great appetizer and the flavors are so perfectly balanced and delicious. The bi-weekly contest on Food52 is all about alliums and I saw this submission and instantly fell in love! You can use white or brown for appetizer size but I was thinking how wonderful this would be as a vegetarian main course using big, meaty portobello mushrooms. You can find Pat’s recipes on her wonderful blog, In Pat’s Kitchen or on Food52 where you can see an abundance of delicious recipes. You might want to use some tender celery to make Roasted Celery Soup which just recently won the contest for best celery recipe or her utterly delicious A Tribute To Woody (Homemade Gingerale Float).
Makes 24 stuffed mushrooms
Green Garlic Confit (Molly Wizenburg’s method):
1 1/2 cups quarter inch sliced green garlic stalks (I had about 14 medium)
2 tablespoons butter
1/4 cup water
1/2 teaspoon salt
In a small sauce pan with a lid, melt the butter and add the sliced green garlic, water and salt. Cover and gently cook the mixture over medium-low heat, stirring often until the liquid is almost all evaporated. This should take about 20 minutes. Set aside to cool a bit while you prep the mushrooms.
For the mushrooms and stuffing:
24 white or brown button mushrooms, caps about 1 1/2 to 2 inches in diameter
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
4 ounces softened cream cheese
3/4 cup panko bread crumbs
2 tablespoons finely grated parmesan cheese
The green garlic confit
Extra virgin olive oil for drizzling
Remove the stems from the mushrooms (save for another use) and then clean the mushrooms with either a mushroom brush or wipe them with paper toweling.
Place the mushrooms in a bowl and toss them with the 2 tablespoons of olive oil and then place them, cap side up on a baking sheet. In a pre heated 425F oven, roast the mushrooms for 5 minutes. Remove from the oven and turn them over. Lower the oven temp to 350F.
In a small mixing bowl, combine the cream cheese, panko, parmesan and green garlic confit. Distribute the filling into the mushroom caps and then drizzle a little extra virgin olive oil over each mushroom.
Roast the filled mushroom caps at the 350F temp for about twenty minutes or until the filling just begins to brown. Let cool for a minute or two before enjoying warm.
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These look really nice – the idea of stuffed mushrooms is so cool, especially with these wonderful flavours 🙂
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Thank you, Pat always has such wonderful recipes. I really love stuffed mushrooms, and using the spring allium is such a great idea. I wondered if you would like to do a guest post? I am going to feature some vintage recipes and if you have one would you be interested in doing a guest post either next week or the week after?
This looks great, Suzanne! And I agree, Pat’s recipes are always so good 🙂
Thank you yes Pat’s are fantastic , as are your wonderful recipe’s. I so love your blog I learn so much from you.
Yum! These look spectacular 🙂
They are delicious! Thank you so much.
I love stuffed mushrooms and these sound like something special. The filling is different from ones I’ve seen in the past. I’ll need to make this for sure!
I love Pat’s recipes, they are simple to prepare and so delicious, thank you so much.
Thanks so much ,suzanne ,for the post. I really appreciate it!
It’s such a pleasure to feature your recipe’s, Pat, they are always delicious and are so simple to make, they very well written.
I love Pat’s recipes too. So comforting, always.
She is amazing!