Stuffed Mushrooms

Several days ago I celebrated my birthday and had a bit of an informal dinner party, among the starters was a stuffed mushroom recipe that was made up on the spot. A good friend of mine requested I post the recipe, so without further ado:

Cream Cheese Stuffed Mushrooms

  Ingredients

• 30 small button mushrooms. You could use bigger mushrooms, but you would use less and need to cook them longer.
• 125 g of decent cream cheese
• 1 tsp cracked pepper
• 2 finely chopped cloves of garlic
• a handful of chopped herbs, mainly sage
• 2 tbs olive oil

Method

1. Preheat oven to 220C, fan bake.
2. Mix the cream cheese with the pepper, garlic, and herbs.
3. Remove the stalks from the mushrooms. You don’t need to wash or peel them!
4. Fill the mushrooms with the cream cheese mixture, this is easiest if applied just by smearing each mushroom with a finger full of the mixture.
5. Place the mushrooms into a baking tray, add half a cup of water to the tray and then splash on the olive oil.
6. Place in the oven and cook for around 10 minutes, until the mushrooms have shrunk and they are all juicy.
7. Serve as a canape or as a small side dish.