Ingredients
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6 large portabella mushrooms, wiped clean
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2 tablespoons olive oil
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1/2 red onion, peeled & diced finely
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1/2 red pepper, diced finely
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50 g parmesan cheese
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freshly ground sea salt
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freshly ground mixed peppercorns
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50 g grated cheddar cheese
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parsley (to garnish)
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1 -2 garlic clove, diced finely
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125 g good quality sausages or 125 g good quality sausage meat
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1 -2 fresh tomato, sliced thinly
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4 drained sun-dried tomatoes packed in oil, diced finely
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas Mark 7.
- Take a large earthenware ovenproof dish and pour in half the olive oil, swill it around to cover the base.
- Gently remove the stalks from the mushrooms and set aside.
- If using sausages, take the sausage casings off them and break them up into a large bowl.
- Heat up the remaining olive oil and add the garlic, onion and red pepper. Cook over a medium heat for about 10-15 minutes or until they are soft.
- Add the onion, garlic & red pepper mixture to the sausagemeat & give it all a good mix.
- Add the sun-dried tomatoes, parmesan cheese, a good twist or two of salt & mixed peppercorns and mix thoroughly again.
- Stuff each mushroom with the sausage mixture and place into the oiled ovenproof dish.
- Place a tomato slice on each of the mushrooms, making a hole in the middle of each slice.
- Sprinkle on the cheddar cheese and push a mushroom stalk into each of the stuffed mushrooms, through the hole in the tomato slice.
- Optional: If you have any of the sun-dried tomato oil available, drizzle a little over the top of the mushrooms.
- Bake in a preheated oven for 50-60 minutes; it depends on the size of the mushrooms.
- Garnish with chopped parsley & serve warm with chunky home-made bread and/or salad.
- Allow one mushrom per person as a starter and two per person for lunch or a lght meal.