Sausage Stuffed Mushrooms. Heat a skillet over medium-high heat. Stuffed mushrooms are an appetizer that have been popular for decades, and for good reason! They're bite sized, look fancy and are so very delicious.
An easy and crowd pleasing appetizer - these Sausage Stuffed Mushrooms have fresh mushrooms that are stuffed with sausage and cream cheese. I am all about the appetizer recipes, especially at the end of the year. I'm making my list for our annual all-appetizers New Years Eve dinner menu, and these Sausage Stuffed Mushrooms. You can have Sausage Stuffed Mushrooms using 4 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Sausage Stuffed Mushrooms
- Prepare 1 lb of breakfast sausage.
- It's 1 packages of mushrooms.
- You need 8 oz of cream cheese.
- Prepare 3 of green onions.
A perfect Italian appetizer with no fuss. Keep your guests wondering if you ordered take-out or used to work at their favorite Italian restaurant with these Sausage Stuffed Mushrooms. Remove mushroom stems and set caps aside. Place mushroom caps on foil-lined baking sheets; set aside.
Sausage Stuffed Mushrooms instructions
- Preheat oven to 425.
- Carefully remove stems from mushrooms. You should have a small hollowed out space in the mushroom where the stem used to be. Save 5 stems for stuffing mixture..
- Finely chop the mushroom stems you saved..
- Chop green onion in thin slices..
- Cook breakfast sausage in a frying pan until browned. (Make sausage crumbly.).
- Drain all of the grease off of the sausage..
- Put cooked sausage in a glass bowl large enough to mix..
- Add the package of cream cheese to the sausage while it is still warm so the cream cheese mixes easier..
- After the cream cheese and sausage are mixed add the chopped stems and green onion to the mixture and mix until all ingredients are evenly mixed..
- Using a spoon, fill the mushrooms with the stuffing mixture..
- Place all of the filled mushrooms in a pan with a metal rack and cook in the oven for 20-25 minutes, or until stuffing has browned. (You don't have to use a rack, but it lets the juice from the mushrooms fall in the pan underneath.).
- Remove mushrooms from oven after fully cooked and let them rest for 3 minutes..
- Serve and enjoy! (Try using bacon instead of sausage!).
In a skillet, cook and crumble meat in olive oil over medium heat until cooked through; drain. Remove and discard stems from mushrooms. Arrange mushroom caps on foil-lined baking sheets. In a bowl, combine cooked sausage, bread crumbs, cream cheese, garlic, parsley and lemon juice. Carefully spoon sausage mixture into mushroom caps.