Portabella Nirvana

Description

Roasted portobello mushrooms are stuffed with a savory crab stuffing like a gigantic appetizer. If this isn’t Heaven, your taste buds will be there anyway!

Ingredients

  • 2 large portobello mushrooms
  • 1 (8 ounce) bottle Italian-style salad dressing
  • 1 tablespoon minced onion
  • 1 ½ teaspoons minced garlic
  • ¼ cup butter
  • 1 stalk celery, diced
  • ½ cup crab meat, fresh or canned
  • 20 buttery round crackers, crushed
  • ⅔ cup Italian blend shredded cheese, divided

Instructions

  1. Preheat your oven’s broiler. Clean mushrooms
  2. and remove stems
  3. reserving them for later. Marinate the mushroom caps in Italian dressing for 15 minutes. Remove from marinade
  4. and place into a baking dish.
  5. Broil at least 6 inches from heat for about 10 minutes. Check occasionally to make sure they do not burn. Turn off the broiler
  6. and preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
  7. Melt butter in a skillet over medium-high heat. Chop reserved mushroom stems. Sautee onion
  8. garlic
  9. mushroom stems and celery until tender. Add the crabmeat
  10. and heat until cooked through
  11. about 5 minutes. Transfer the skillet mixture to a medium bowl
  12. and mix in crackers
  13. 1/3 cup of the cheese blend
  14. and mix until well blended. Use some of the Italian dressing marinade to hold the mixture together if necessary. Pack the crab mixture into the cavities of the mushrooms. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
  15. Bake for 10 minutes in the preheated oven. Remove from the oven
  16. and sprinkle remaining cheese over the tops
  17. then return to the oven for 3 minutes
  18. or until cheese has melted.

Prep Time: 20 mins

Cook Time: 30 mins

Total Time: 50 mins

Servings: 4

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