Oriental stuffed mushrooms

24 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
2 tablespoons Fresh lemon juice
24 larges Mushroom stemmed *
3 slices Lean bacon
¼ cup Minced onion
4 teaspoons Minced garlic
2 tablespoons Soy sauce
1 tablespoon Sesame seeds, toasted lightly
½ cup Fine fresh bread crumbs
1 tablespoon Bread crumbs for garnish
Pepper to taste
1 Scallion, sliced thin, for garnish

Directions

* Chop stems and leave caps whole In a large saucepan, combine 6 cups water with the lemon juice, add the mushroom caps, and bring the liquid to a boil. Simmer the mushroom caps for 6 mintues, transfer tham to paper towels, and let them drain. (Blanching the mushroom caps will prevent them from wrinkling while they are baking.) In a skillet, cook the bacon over moderate heat until it is crisp, transfer it to paper towels, and let it drain. Pour off all but 1-½ tbsp of the fat from the skillet, in the remaining fat cook the onion, the garlic, and the mushroom stems over moderately low heat,stirring, until the vegetables are softened, and add the soy sauce, the sesame seeds, ½ cup of the bread crumbs, the bacon, crumbled, and pepper to taste. Cook the mixture, stirring, for 1 minutes, or until it is slightly dry, divide it among the mushroom caps, mounding it, and transfer the stuffed mushrooms to a jelly-roll pan. The mushrooms may be prepared up to this point 1 day in advance and kept covered tightly with plastic wrap and chilled. Sprinkle the remaining 1 tbsp bread crumbs over the mushrooms and bake the mushrooms in the middle of a preheated 325 F oven for 7 minutes, or until the filling is heated through. To make the filling crisper, the cooked mushrooms may be put under a preheated broiler about 4 inches from the heat for 1 minute. Garnish the mushrooms with the scallion.

Makes 24 stuffed mushrooms.

Origin: Cookbook Digest Nov/Dec 1991 Shared by: Sharon Stevens.

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