Stuffed Caps With Cream Cheese And Crab
- 1lb Fresh white button mushrooms about 2" across. Stems removed and reserved.
- 8oz Phiadelphia Cream Cheese at room temperature.
- 6oz lump crab meat.
- 1lg garlic clove
- 1 cup shredded Mozarella
- Place mushrooms inner side down on baking sheet and bake at 300 deg. for 15 minutes.
- Cut the cream cheese into small pieces and put in mixer bowl. Using the mixer blade (not a wire whip) start mixing to form a smooth paste.
- Clean crabmeat of shell and add to cream cheese
- Crush garlic clove (prefer the new screw type garlic crushers) Add garlic to cream cheese
- Finely chop the reserved mushroom stems and add to cream cheese.
- Remove the mushroom caps from the over, turn over and fill with generous amounts of the cream cheese filling.
- Return to oven and raise temperature to 375 deg. and bake until cream cheese just begins to tan. About 25 min.
- Sprinkle with mozarella and place back in oven until mozarella begins to melt. About 5 minutes. Serve hot.
fresh white button mushrooms, cream cheese, lump crab meat, garlic, mozarella
Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/stuffed-caps-with-cream-cheese-and-crab-1216031 (may not work)