Original Recipes:
Ingredients:
- 8 white mushrooms (~2 inches in diameter), stems removed, finely chopped, and reserved
- 3 slices bacon chopped fine
- 1/2 onion chopped fine
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- 1 sprig fresh rosemary chopped fine
- a few sage leaves chopped fine
- a bunch of chard (maybe half a pound, could be frozen greens thawed) leaves chopped into small (1/2 inch pieces) stems finely diced
- 1/4 cup panko bread crumbs
Steps:
- Cook bacon in skillet over medium high heat until crispy, set aside.
- Toss the bread crumbs in the bacon fat, and set aside seperately from the bacon.
- cook the mushroom stems in a quarter cup of water until they release their juices.
- Sweat onions and chard stems with more oil, and a quarter tsp of salt over medium low heat until transluscent (5-10 minutes)
- Add the garlic, and cook for one minute more
- Add the thawed / chopped greens, sautee until warmed through and wilted.
- Add the herbs, remove from heat and mix with the bread crumbs and bacon.
- Adjust oven rack to lower-middle position and heat oven to 450 degrees.
- Toss mushroom caps with 2 tablespoons oil and season with salt and pepper. Lay mushrooms gill side down on plate lined with 2 layers of coffee filters.
- Microwave mushrooms on high until they release their moisture and shrink in size, 8-10 minutes.
- Flip mushrooms gill side up and transfer to aluminum foil-lined rimmed baking sheet.
- Stuff mushrooms with stuffing mixture
- top with panko
- Bake for 10 - 15 minutes.