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Grilled Button Mushrooms with Cheese
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Grilled Button Mushrooms with Cheese

Button mushrooms stuffed with cheese and herbs, grilled — the perfect grill snack.

⏱ 30 min🍽 4 servings 🌍 Mediterranean👩‍🍳 Afoona🧩 2 parts

👨‍🍳 Method

To assemble

  1. 1
    Wipe the mushrooms with a damp towel and remove the stems.
    Kitchen towel
  2. 2
    Finely chop the stems.
    KnifeCutting board
  3. 3
    Heat the olive oil in a pan over medium heat.
    ⚙ Pan-fryingStoveFrying pan
  4. 4
    Add and fry 5–8 minutes, stirring now and then, until the onion is soft and translucent and starts to turn golden at the edges. If it browns too fast, lower the heat.
    ⚙ Adding to the hot fat and fryingStove
    💡Add by cooking time: what needs long (onion, carrot, meat) goes in first, and what burns fast (garlic, dry spices) goes in last, only until fragrant.
  5. 5
    Add the garlic and fry about 30 seconds to 1 minute, just until fragrant. Don't let the garlic brown.
    ⚙ Adding to the hot fat and fryingStove
  6. 6
    Add the chopped stems with the rosemary, thyme, salt and black pepper and fry 3 minutes.
    Stove
  7. 7
    Fill the caps with the filling.
  8. 8
    Scatter the cheese on top.
  9. 9
    Heat a grill rack to medium-high, set the mushrooms on it and grill, covered, 10–12 minutes, until the mushrooms are tender and the cheese is melted and bubbling.
    Gas grillTongs
  10. 10
    Scatter the cilantro on top and serve hot.
253calories
13 gprotein
4 gcarbs
21 gfat
● protein 20%● carbs 7%● fat 74%

Per serving (179 g), of 4 servings

To assemble ·

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (7) · 🍳 One cooking vessel

  • Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
  • Frying pan · Also works: Wok (None) · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Pot (High sides, slow evaporation and weak browning)
  • Cutting board · Also works: Plate (Large plate, dulls the knife)
  • Knife · Also works: Food processor (Fast, less control over size) · Kitchen shears (For herbs/dough)
  • Kitchen towel · Also works: Plastic wrap (Plastic wrap over the bowl) · Paper towels (None)
  • Tongs · Also works: Turner (None) · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Fork (Pierces the meat)
  • Gas grill · Also works: Charcoal grill (Make coals, takes longer) · Grill pan (None)

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