Quick and tasty, hot appetiser. Quantities are hard to pin down as they depend on the number of mushrooms, you may have to eyeball it.
- Servings: ??
- Baking tray
- Baking paper
- Food processor / blender
- Chestnut mushrooms (the bigger the better)
- Pine nuts
- Panko breadcrumbs
- Sun-dried tomatoes
- Pecorino cheese (substitute: parmagannio)
- Parsley
- Garlic (fresh, or paste, or pre-chopped, it doesn't matter much)
- Extra-virgin olive oil
- Salt & pepper
- Using damp kitchen towel, wipe down each mushroom individually, wiping any visible dirt or debri
- Separate the stems from the caps
- Put the stems away to re-use in another meal, we only need the caps
- Heat the oven to 170C (fan)
- Place baking paper on baking tray, place each of the caps acros the paper (cavity side up)
- Drizzle with olive oil, spread generous salt & pepper all over
- Stick all the following in a food processor / blender and blend it
- Pine nuts
- Panko breadcrumbs
- Sun-dried tomatoes
- Pecorino cheese
- Parsley
- Garlic, about 1tbsp worth
- A few pinches of black pepper
- Start small, you can always make more mixture but can't make less
- Using a teaspoon, stuff the mixture into each of the mushrooms. If you run out, blend more mixture.
- Drizzle again with generous amounts of olive oil, then bake for 15-20 minutes