Stuffed Mushrooms Finger Food

Dear friends, welcome back! Today I have a new clever recipe for you: stuffed mushrooms filled with a green pepper cheese cream. A finger food that is quick to prepare, and I assure you, it’s super tasty 🙂

Here are my stuffed mushrooms:

Please, help yourself! 😀

For this finger food idea I took inspiration from a leaflet that came with a package of mushrooms. It contained some recipes, one of which sparked my imagination, even though it had a completely different filling and presentation… it was a whole other recipe! 😀 but just the presence of raw mushrooms was enough to give me the idea to experiment, and in the end, I brought to the table a tasty appetizer, the kind that once you taste the first mushroom, you say ‘not bad’ then you realize one leads to another and you’re sad to have finished them all in five minutes!

So, what can I say… experiment successful!!

I’ll write you the recipe right away, okay? I’m sure that once you read it, you’ll want to experiment too!

And if afterward, you want to try other mushroom recipes, try these 👇

stuffed mushrooms finger food
  • Difficulty: Very Easy
  • Cost: Cheap
  • Preparation time: 15 Minutes
  • Portions: 16 pieces
  • Cooking methods: No Cooking
  • Cuisine: Italian
  • Seasonality: All Seasons

Ingredients

  • 16 button mushrooms (champignon) (caps only)
  • 3.5 oz fresh spreadable cheese
  • 2 tbsp milk
  • 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 tsp oregano
  • 1 clove garlic (small, or half)
  • green peppercorns (to taste, I used half a teaspoon)

Tools

  • Bowl versatile glass
  • Mortar very small
  • Piping Bag with large nozzle

Steps

  • First, in a bowl work the spreadable cheese with the milk to soften it.

    In the mortar or a small bowl, crush the green peppercorns with the oil.

    If you like, more green pepper can be used, but I used only half a teaspoon to prevent the cheese cream from becoming too spicy (considering also the pepper for decoration).

    Add the crushed pepper oil to the cheese, and also add the chopped garlic.

    👉 Alternatively, you can try crushing the garlic in the mortar with the green pepper, but this time I simply chopped it with a knife.

    Mix well, also adding the oregano.

    Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and place it in the fridge.

    While the cheese cream is resting, clean the mushrooms:

    Twist off the stems (keep them for another preparation).

    Clean the mushroom caps. Sometimes I remove the skin that covers them, sometimes I don’t (it depends on the mushrooms or their size or my mood). This time I removed it.

    😃 (Next time I have to remember not to use the serrated knife, I noticed those ‘lines’ only when taking the photo! But let’s pretend it’s an intentional decoration, right?).

    Quickly wash the caps and dry them immediately.

    Place the cheese cream in a piping bag with a large hole nozzle (to avoid pieces of pepper clogging the nozzle).

    Fill the cavity of the mushroom caps.

    Decorate with a green peppercorn (or more if you like) and maybe a sprinkle of oregano.

    Refrigerate for at least half an hour before serving.

    And then…

    …Have a lovely evening, savor these flavors slowly, and, why not, enjoy them with a nice glass of white wine!

    Enjoy! 🤗

    stuffed mushrooms finger food
  • Alternative use for green pepper cheese cream:

    For those who don’t like mushrooms (like some child of mine!), this fresh cheese flavored with pepper and oregano is also excellent spread on canapés and crostini. 😋

Salt-Free Tips

Salt-Free Like all my recipes, even these cheese-stuffed mushrooms are salt-free. The flavor is all in the good quality of the mushrooms, the goodness of the spreadable cheese, the aroma of garlic, and the unmistakable taste of green pepper.

Salt-Free Like all my recipes, even these cheese-stuffed mushrooms are salt-free. The flavor is all in the good quality of the mushrooms, the goodness of the spreadable cheese, the aroma of garlic, and the unmistakable taste of green pepper.

If you are interested in reducing or eliminating salt, always remember to:
▫ Gradually decrease salt, the palate must get used to the reduction slowly and not notice the progressive decrease.
▫ Use spices. Chili, pepper, curry, nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, cumin…
▫ Use aromatic herbs. Basil, parsley, oregano, thyme, sage, marjoram, rosemary, mint…
▫ Use seeds. Sesame, pine nuts, almonds, walnuts…
▫ Use spicy vegetables or fruit. Garlic, onion, lemon, orange…
▫ Use my salt-free vegetable granulate and gomasio.
▫ Prefer fresh foods.
▫ Avoid cooking in water, prefer cooking methods that do not disperse flavors (grill, foil, steam, microwave)
▫ Avoid bringing the salt shaker to the table!
▫ Allow yourself an occasional exception to the rule. It’s good for the mood and helps to persevere.

If you don’t want, or can’t, give up on salt:
▫ You can still try my recipes by salting according to your habits.

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