Quick & Easy No-Bake Stuffed Mushrooms Recipe Kris in Beijing
- one 8 oz tray large button mushrooms, or 16 large button mushrooms
- 1 clove garlic, peeled
- 2 Tbs butter or margarine
- 2 loosely packed cups potato chips-- preferably a cheese & onion flavour
- 2 oz cream cheese
- 1/3 tsp sea salt~or to taste
- 1/4 tps freshly ground pepper~ or to taste
- If desired, wash and rinse mushrooms.
- Remove stems from all mushrooms.
- Gently turn and twist a stem to remove.
- Sort by size and add the smallest caps to the stems if using a tray.
- Place stems and garlic in the bowl of a food processor.
- Whiz until most pieces are finely copped.
- Pieces do not need to be extremely small.
- chop all pieces fine
- To a saute pan, add mushroom mixture and butter.
- Heat on medium-low heat, stirring occasionally.
- do not rinse out bowl of food processor
- While mushrooms are reducing, place caps in the top of a microwave steamer tray.
- Place tray over a plate and microwave at 80% power for 5 minutes.
- Let stand in the microwave.
- Do not drain the water out of the individual caps.
- While butter and mushroom mixture is heating, place chips into the bowl of a food processor reuse mushroom bowl and whiz until chips are almost powder.
- crush chips in a tea towel until very fine
- Stir in chip powder to the mushrooms mixture in the saute pan.
- When mushroom mixture is heated through, remove from heat and stir in cream cheese.
- Add salt and pepper to the filling.
- Adjust to taste.
- Mixture should have a full mushroom flavour with a hint of garlic.
- With a small spoon or clean hands, press enough filling into each mushroom cap to both fill the cap and mound up to about 1/2"1.25 cm above the cap.
- There will probably be leftover filling.
- Microwave filled mushrooms for 1 minute on High.
- Serve immediately.
- Leftovers can be refrigerated for up to 2 days in a sealed container.
- Reheat at High for 1 minute 30 seconds.
button mushrooms, clove garlic, butter, potato chips, cream cheese, salt, ground pepper
Taken from www.chowhound.com/recipes/quick-andamp-easy-bake-stuffed-mushrooms-18708 (may not work)