If you enjoy mushrooms and seafood then this classic recipe for baked stuffed mushrooms will knock your socks off!

Ingredients:

  • 2 Tbs butter
  • 2 Tbs minced celery
  • 1 Tbs minced onion
  • 1 Tbs minced red bell pepper
  • 2 lbs mushrooms
  • 1 cup oyster crackers – crushed
  • 6 oz. cooked lobster meat – chopped
  • 4 oz. cooked crab meat – picked over and shredded
  • 1/4 cup shredded white cheddar cheese
  • 1 egg
  • 2 Tbs water
  • 1/4 tsp Old Bay Seasoning
  • 1/8 tsp garlic powder
  • 1/8 tsp salt
  • 1/8 tsp pepper
  • 3 Tbs olive oil
  • 2/3 cup shredded white cheddar cheese

Directions:

Melt butter in skillet over medium heat. Add minced celery, onion, and red bell pepper. Cook 2 minutes, until tender, then cool. Remove stems from mushrooms and finely chop 3/4 cup of stems. Set mushroom caps aside.

In large bowl combine vegetable mixture, chopped stems, crushed oyster crackers, lobster meat, crab meat, 1/4 cup shredded white cheddar cheese, egg, water, Old Bay Seasoning, garlic powder, salt, and pepper.

Grease two large jelly-roll pans. Brush mushroom caps with olive oil, sprinkle with salt, and stuff with lobster-crab mixture. Arrange caps in prepared pans. Top with remaining 2/3 cup shredded white cheddar cheese.

Bake 12 minutes – until lightly browned. Makes about 50 mushrooms.

source: VT Living Magazine