Italian Sausage Stuffed Mushrooms

Enjoy these Italian Sausage Stuffed Mushrooms as a Super Bowl appetizer or as an appetizer at your next holiday party!

These Italian sausage stuffed mushroom are a fan favorite appetizer at any party.

Easy Appetizers like these stuffed mushrooms are our jam. If you love these, you will definitely love our Loaded Tater Tot Skewers, Mini Chicken Pot Pies, and our Cheeseburger Meatballs.

We highlighted this Easy Appetizers along with some other finger foods in our Easy Fall Appetizer along with our Super Bowl Appetizers that will Score.

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These little bites would be great for your next party or get together. They are sophisticated enough to serve as an appetizer for your holiday party or casual enough for the Super Bowl Party. This recipe yields 20-30 mushrooms, so there is just enough for me. 🙂 They really are delicious and I can't wait to make them again.

Ingredients

25-30 Medium Mushrooms (2 bundles)
1 Pound Sweet Italian Sausage
1 Tablespoon Olive Oil
3 Garlic Cloves (Minced)
1 Medium Shallot (Minced)
¼ Cup Parmesan Cheese, 1 tablespoon Parmesan (for crust)
¼ Cup Italian Bread Crumbs

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.

In a medium-size sauté pan over medium-high heat olive oil. Add the Italian sausage into the hot pan, and cook the sausage while breaking it up into fine crumbles.

Once browned, add minced shallot and garlic cloves and sauté for another minute. Remove the sausage mixture from pan, and set aside.

In a bowl stir to combine mix bread crumbs and 1 tablespoon of parmesan cheese till finely chopped to a breadcrumb.

Remove caps of mushrooms, setting stems to the side. Finely Chop the stems and add the chopped mushroom stems to sausage mixture. Add ¼ cup parmesan to sausage mixture as well and combine.

Bake in the oven for 20 minutes. For added golden color, broil mushrooms for the last minute.

On a sheet pan, arrange mushrooms an inch or two apart. Fill mushroom caps with sausage crumble till its overflowing. Sprinkle bread crumb mixture over the top of each filled mushroom.

Happy Entertaining!

Additional Questions

Here are a few questions you might have now that you starting to make this dish.

Why are my stuffed mushrooms soggy?

Mushrooms generally contain water and when you bake them the water tends to pool at the bottom. If you bake your mushroom caps upside down on the pan in the oven for 10-12 minutes while you are cooking the stuffing, the water will run out on the pan.

How do you clean mushrooms for stuffing?

There are people that say to wash them under water, and there are those that suggest just wiping them down. I like cleaning my produce, so I wash mine.

Will cooking mushrooms kill bacteria?

Yes, cooking mushroom does kill bacteria. More reason to stuff and cook those babies.

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Yield: 25 - 30 Mushrooms