Portobello Stuffed Mushrooms
Portobello Stuffed Mushrooms
Feeds 4
Marinade Ingredients: This recipe can be prepared
¼ Cup Olive Oil VEGAN
1 small onion finely diced VEGETARIAN
3 garlic cloves finely diced TRADITIONALLY
4 Tbs. Balsamic Vinegar
Ingredients:
4 Large Portobello Mushrooms with deep caps for stuffing
5 Tbs. 3 Cheese Italian dressing (Romano, Asiago & Parmesan) any Italian dressing will do
½ Cup Yellow, Red or Orange Pepper cut into cubes (yellow looks best for color presentation)
10 oz. Fresh Baby Spinach washed well
1 Small to Medium Tomato chopped into chunks
1 Sprig Fresh Rosemary or 2 Tsp. Dried Rosemary -crush in your hand before adding
3 Fresh Basil leaves, minced or 1 Tsp. Dried – crush in your hand before adding
1/8 Tsp each Sea Salt & Ground Pepper or to Taste
¼ Cup Grated Parmesan Cheese (Optional)
¼ Cup Shredded Mozzarella Cheese (Optional)
2 Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts cut into bite size pieces (Optional)
DIRECTIONS
- Clean mushrooms, remove stems, chop & set them aside. Use a spoon to scoop gills out of mushrooms, discard gills.
- Place mushroom caps onto a foil lined cookie sheet or baking pan pour marinade into caps and let marinade for 1 hour.
- While mushrooms marinade, do prep work – dice veggies, wash spinach (& cut chicken).
- Preheat Oven to 375.
- Coat rounded side of mushroom caps with Italian Dressing, set rounded sides down, on foil lined cookie sheet or baking pan.
- Heat remaining 3 Tbs. of 3 Cheese dressing in large frying pan on medium-high heat.
- Scoop onions & garlic from mushroom caps stir into frying pan, (oil & vinegar will be absorbed into mushrooms), return caps to baking pan, rounded side down, add rosemary & basil (* SEE NOTE) mushroom stems & red or yellow peppers to pan & cook for 2 minutes stirring often.
- Add spinach, reduce heat to medium-low, stir, cover & cook 2 – 4 minutes until spinach is wilted, stir in tomatoes & salt & pepper, cover & cook 2 more minutes.
- Sprinkle with grated Parmesan cheese (optional) & stir well. Spoon evenly into mushroom caps, & top with shredded Mozzarella cheese (Optional).
- Bake 20 minutes or until mushrooms are tender.
* NOTE: You can add boneless skinless chicken breast cut into bite size pieces at this point & cook until chicken is done then stir in mushrooms stems & peppers, continue to follow recipe.
