Best Lower Fat Cream Cheese And Ricotta Stuffed Mushrooms Recipes

DELICIOUS LOW FAT/CALORIE STUFFED MUSHROOMS

Steps:

• (Since I'm usually cooking for 1 or 2, I tend to cut the recipe in half. Also, a great deal of this recipe is to taste. So if you like your mushrooms meatier, add more meat and less cream cheese.).
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Remove stems from mushrooms an wash thoroughly. Let mushrooms dry on a paper towel.
• In a food processor add cream cheese, entire package of artificial crab, two tablespoons of parmesan, and two cloves of garlic. (You may also add some chopped scallions if you like). Pulse until smooth.
• Taste your mixture and add salt, pepper, and powdered garlic to taste.
• With a spoon, scoop about one tablespoon of mixture into each mushroom, or until cap is full and overflowing a bit. Use the spoon to smooth out mixture into a nice mound. Spray a baking sheet with cooking spray of choice and place completed mushrooms evenly on the sheet. Sprinkle mushrooms with more parmesan cheese to taste. Bake about 8 mins, or until mushroom tops begin to brown.
• (If you make the entire recipe but don't end up using all of the cheesy crab mixture, it tastes amazing chilled and served on crackers or wrapped into wanton noodles and fried.).

LOWER-FAT CREAM CHEESE AND RICOTTA STUFFED MUSHROOMS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Mix cream cheese, ricotta and garlic.
• Spoon cheese mixture into mushroom caps.
• Sprinkle shredded cheese on top.
• Bake for 10 minutes, or until shredded cheese is well melted.
• I suggest putting aluminum foil on a cookie sheet for easy clean-up, since the cheese may ooze over a bit.

BACON, ONION, & CREAM CHEESE STUFFED MUSHROOMS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• In large skillet, add bacon pieces, cook until done. Set aside bacon. Cook onions in bacon fat until cooked. Set aside with bacon. Allow grease to drain as much as possible. Place each of the mushroom caps into a mini-muffin tin and set aside.
• In a small mixing bowl, add cream cheese, garlic, and pepper. Combine ingredients well. Add onion and bacon to mix. Take a plastic storage back and place the bacon mixture into it, and push all the mixture down into one corner. Snip the corner of the bag to allow the bacon mixture to be pushed through. Squeeze the bacon mixture in to each of the mushroom caps, until all caps are filled.
• Place the mushrooms in the oven for 10-12 minutes until bacon mixture is light brown. Enjoy!

RICOTTA STUFFED MUSHROOMS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Remove stems from cleaned mushrooms, and chop fine.
• Soak bread in milk and squeeze dry.
• Mix together chopped stems, bread, garlic, parsley, eggs, ricotta, salt and pepper.
• Fill mushroom caps with stuffing.
• Arrange stuffed mushrooms, filled side up, in a buttered baking dish.
• Drizzle a little olive oil over mushrooms and sprinkle with grated cheese.
• Bake uncovered, about 20 minutes.
• Serve hot or cold.

GARLIC RICOTTA STUFFED MUSHROOMS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Clean mushrooms, remove stems.
• Chop stems, and the one extra mushroom.
• Heat olive oil in sauté pan.
• Add chopped stems and the one extra mushroom.
• Halfway through cooking add crushed garlic, salt and pepper.
• Remove from heat and allow to cool slightly in a small mixing bowl.
• Add ricotta and 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan.
• Fill caps with the cheese mixture and place on a cookie sheet that has been sprayed with cooking spray.
• Sprinkle remaining Parmesan on top.
• Bake for approx 20-25 minutes.