Baked Stuffed Mushroom

I have a bunch of leftovers ingredients (shitake mushroom, capsicum & onions) in the refrigerator as I did not manage to finish using them when I made vegetable pizza last week. I thought that I should do something special with them instead of stir frying them.

I decided to bake stuffed mushroom topped with cheese after looking at a blog recommended by my BF (http://foodelicious.blogspot.com/). It is something that I have not attempted before but seemed not too complicated. I just browsed through some of the recipes available online, adapted some of the ingredients and came out with my own version of baked stuffed mushrooms.

As this is only a side dish for our dinner, I just made 6 buttons of mushrooms.


Ingredients:
(yields 6 buttons)

6 buttons Shitake Mushroom

2-3 Shallots (minced)

10 strips Capsicums (cut to small size)

1 tsp Oyster sauce

1 tsp "Shao Hsing" wine

1 tsp olive oil

Grated cheese

Method:

1) Soak the mushrooms for 15 minutes. Cut off the stems, chop stems into small pieces and put aside. Leave the cap uncut.

2) Preheat oven at 180 deg C.

3) Heat up pan with olive oil. For the filling, stir fry the minced shallots, capsicums and stems until fragrant, around 3-5 minutes.

4) Towards the end, add in oyster sauce and Shao Hsing wine and stir fry for another 1 minute. Put the filling aside.

5) Grease the baking pan with olive oil. Place caps at the baking cap and brush with a little olive oil.

6) Put around 1 tablespoon of filling onto each cap and top up with cheese.

7) Put baking pan with the stuffed mushrooms into the oven and bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until cheese slightly browned.

Outcome:

It is yummy! I was urged to take out the mushrooms from the oven earlier as we were already half way through our dinner and it would have become our dessert if we waited any longer. The cheese has melted but both of us agreed that it would have tasted much better if it was baked longer for the cheese to brown. I am very satisfied with the outcome as this is a creation of my own version of baked stuffed mushroom and it turned out rather pleasing!