Thursday, May 10, 2012

"Stuffed" Mushrooms

This is probably going to become one of my "Get out of Jail Free" meals*.  It takes a little longer to prepare, but it wins super-food-brownie-points with a particular woman in my life... and that's a good thing to have.

Stuffed Mushrooms
  • 4 large cap mushrooms (They should have a cap larger than your palm)
  • 1 bunch of asparagus
  • 8-10 green beans
  • sundried or semi-dried tomatoes
  • shaved Jarlsberg cheese
  • Optional: A red chilli slided finely
  1. Take the stems off the large-cap mushrooms and dice them.
  2. Dice the asparagus into small pieces along with the beans and semi-dried tomatoes.
  3. Fry the diced stems and diced vegetables in a pan with barely enough oil to make sure they stick.  Take them out when they are 3/4 cooked. (Include sliced chilli here...)  The tomatoes will be very fragrant by this point.
  4. Spoon this mixture into the underside of the caps.  Then either pan-fry or, even better, put the caps into a grill-pan.  Use a pan you can put in the oven.
  5. While you are grilling/pan-frying the mushrooms, heat an oven to around 150C.
  6. Take the mushrooms off the stove heat in the pan and put the shaved Jarlsberg on top of all of the ingredients.  Melt the cheese over the mixture in the oven and make sure that mushrooms are now cooked, but still able to hold their shape.  Depending on taste, they can have a sprinkle of salt over the cheese at this point.  They are gorgeous on their own, rarely need any pepper and I'm yet to think of a side-dish for them.



*Get out of Jail Free Meals: These are dishes or complete dinners that allow you to apologise, bribe, or otherwise get yourself out of troubles with your significant other.  They are often to their personal tastes, but many of them are generally approved by others.  I've made some of these and given them to coworkers and been pestered for the recipes... So they work well.

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