Stuffed mushrooms make for a fantastic appetizer, but you have to find the right recipe. Some stuffed mushrooms recipes are too complicated, or require too many ingredients. If your appetizer is as or more complicated than your main course, that's a problem!
Appetizers are supposed to be simple. Simple doesn't have to mean boring! As you'll see with this recipe, even quick and easy recipes can pack a lot of amazing flavor. Cream cheese, sausage, onion, and parmesan cheese come together to give this recipe lots of great flavor.
You'll want large mushrooms for this recipe. Specifically, we recommend white button mushrooms. The cream cheese needs to be chopped into small cubes, so buy blocks of cream cheese rather than containers of it. This recipe can easily be doubled or tripled as needed, but as-is it will serve ten.
We have a lot of other fantastic appetizer recipes available on our site, so be sure to check them all out. With as many choices as we offer, you'll be able to find just the right kind of appetizer for your event. Now, let's focus on this recipe!
Stuffed Mushrooms
Ingredients:
20 large mushrooms (white button mushrooms)
8 ounces cream cheese (chopped into small cubes)
1 pound bulk pork sausage
1 green onion, chopped
Parmesan cheese
Directions:
1. Brown pork sausage and crumble well.
2. Drain sausage from skillet, leaving a thin coating of oil behind, and sauté chopped onions until tender.
3. Return sausage to pan with onions and add cream cheese.
4. Over low heat, stir sausage, onions, and cream cheese until well-blended.
5. Remove stems from mushrooms and stuff each mushroom cap with the mixture. Top each with parmesan cheese.
6. Bake at 350°F for 20-25 minutes until heated through. Serves 10.