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Easy Crab Stuffed Mushrooms
For Christmas, we did a finger food spread instead of having a traditional sit-down dinner. A potluck of sorts too since everyone contributed a couple things each. This way of doing a Christmas celebration is 5000 times easier for the host and everyone involved. It’s way more casual too and family friendly. You don’t have to worry about spending hours hovering over the stove or being paranoid that little Jimmy is going to pull down your fancy tablecloth off the table.
You just spend a little time before everyone arrives prepping the appetizers and then once they are there, you can mingle too. What a concept for a cook! Most of the time with sit-down dinner the cook is forever stuck in the kitchen, but not with this idea!
For our finger food spread, I made a few things including an Easy Stuffed Mushroom Appetizer that everyone adored. They are little bites of heaven if you ask me.
Chopping The Mushrooms
To chop up the baby bella mushroom stems and green onion I used a Native Spring Food Chopper. It was super easy to pop the mushrooms stems in and get chopping away. It minced them into perfect size pieces for my filling. I had a little trouble closing the three pieces together at first but once you know what you’re doing it’s really easy.
I do wish you could insert the food from the top instead of having to flip it over to the bottom and then reflip it to chop. It is quite a balancing act. At the end of the day, I just popped this baby (disassembled) into the dishwasher for cleaning. It would be a great product for camping when you have no electricity!
Crab or No Crab?
These Easy Stuffed Mushroom Appetizers can be made with crab or no crab. It’s your choice. They taste amazing either way!
In the batch, I added crab to even my son devoured them. He wasn’t a fan of the no crab ones but apparently crab made the difference for him.
These stuffed mushrooms even taste amazing reheated. In fact, I just stuffed my face with some! You can go wrong with this appetizer if you are a mushroom fan.
Easy Crab Stuffed Mushrooms
Ingredients
- 24 baby bella mushrooms
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp minced garlic
- 8 oz cream cheese softened
- 1/4 cup freshly grated parmesan cheese
- 1/4 tsp ground black pepper
- 1 green onion minced
- 1/4 tsp onion powder
- 6 oz crab meat optional
- 1/8 tsp cayenne pepper
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a mini muffin pan with cooking spray. Clean mushrooms, dry, and carefully break off stems. Place stems in a food chopper or cut by hand until extremely fine. Do the same for the green onion. Place mushroom caps in a mini muffin pan; one per cup.
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Over medium heat, heat the oil in a large pan. Add green onion, mushroom stems, crab meat, and garlic. Stir and cook until the moisture has disappeared. Add in pepper, onion powder, and cayenne. Be careful not to burn the garlic. Remove from heat and set aside until cool.
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In a small bowl, add cooled mushroom mixture, cream cheese, and parmesan. Mix well until smooth. Use a small spoon or piping bag to fill mushroom caps. Bake for 20 minutes. Top with extra parmesan and parsley if desired. Enjoy!
Krystle Cook – the creator of Home Jobs by MOM – put her psychology degree on a shelf and dived into a pile of diapers and dishes instead. She is a wife and mother to two rambunctious boys, sweating it out in her Texas hometown. She loves cooking, DIY home projects, and family fun activities.
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This looks really good and simple to make. Thanks for sharing. Kelly Tupick
It was as easy as chopping and throwing it all together. Glad you liked it, enjoy!
These look SO good.
I love mushrooms and I love crab. These look delicious! Thanks for the recipe!
Trust me, it is an amazing combo. I can sit there and pop them like chips.
(Easy Stuffed Mushroom Appetizer) I like making stuffed mushrooms for when we have company coming over. I do make other apps too because sometimes people do not care for eating mushrooms. These sound wonderful to make.
These do sound delicious, both with crab, and without! We’re huge fans of mushrooms, I”d like to try it!
They were awesome at our Christmas gathering! You should try them 🙂
Oh my these looks so yummy. I have not had stuffed mushrooms in a long time and never with crab. I love crab.
They are AMAZING with crab!
These stuffed mushrooms sound so good! I am a huge mushroom fan. I don’t really like crab though, can you taste it a lot? I will most likely make them without. Thank you so much for sharing the recipe!
I don’t think these have a real big Seafood flavor. However, you could always just stuff them with cheeses.
I always thought these would be really hard to make but it doesn’t look so hard. They look awesome
These stuffed mushrooms are easy to make and taste great!
Yum, I love stuffed mushrooms! This recipe sounds delicious and pretty easy as well. Thank you so much for sharing, I can’t wait to make some!!
They are delicious! I wish I had some now for lunch lol.
The recipe looks delish and I’d love to try that chopper. Thanks for posting!
The chopper makes life so much easier!
Good for football parties. yum.
Oh yes, these stuffed mushrooms would be amazing at a football party. Or any party really!
I really like mushrooms. Mostly I chop them up and put them in things like lasagna or stir fry. I think this recipe would be tasty, too.
I love mushrooms in a stir-fry too
These sound so good. We love mushrooms at our house. Thank you so much for sharing this
These would be the perfect appetizer for you guys then
(Easy Stuffed Mushroom Appetizer) I am going to make these mushrooms for my family this coming fall sometime. I really like mushroom recipes a lot and finding new ones to try out too. Thank-you for sharing this one.
These mushrooms are a great appetizer for any event
Love mushrooms so I’ve tucked this away to try once I recover from my broken ankle (I can’t drive; hate shopping online)
I’m so sorry to hear about your broken ankle! I hope you can try these mushrooms when you feel better
These look and sound delicious! I love stuffed mushrooms and I am looking forward to making this recipe.
These stuffed mushrooms make great a great holiday appetizer
I used to not care for mushrooms but I’m starting to tolerate them lol. Maybe this will be better!
Do you like seafood? Although these mushrooms could just be stuffed with cheese if you prefer
I’m baking these right now as a Christmas appetizer. They look and smell amazing! I added some minced onion, red bell pepper and celery to the mushroom stems. After stuffing my mushrooms, I had 1/3 cup of filling left over. I’m thinking of piling it on an English muffin and melting cheese on top for an open-face sandwich tomorrow for lunch!
Using the stuffed mushroom filling for an opened faced sandwich is a great idea!