Stuffed Mushrooms

Ingredients

Yield: 6 servings

½ cup brown rice

1 ½ cups water

½ cup diced onion

½ cup diced celery

2 teaspoons minced garlic

1½ teaspoons nutritional yeast

½ teaspoon dried sage

½ teaspoon salt

¼ teaspoon dried thyme

¼ teaspoon ground black pepper

¼ cup walnuts

1 pound button mushrooms, stems removed

¼ cup curly parsley

Nutrition information

Serving size: 3-4 mushrooms

Calories: 112

Total Fat: 3.4 g

Saturated Fat: 0.4 g

Monounsaturated Fat: 0.5 g

Polyunsaturated Fat: 2.2 g

Protein: 4.3 g

Carbohydrate: 18 g

Sugars: 2.2 g

Dietary Fiber: 1.9 g

Sodium: 174 mg

Source: Spectrum Health Culinary Medicine

Instructions

1. Heat oven to 400 degrees.

2. In a small saucepan, over high heat, add rice, water, onion, celery, garlic, nutritional yeast, sage, salt, thyme and black pepper. Bring to a boil and cover and cook until rice is soft, about 40 minutes. If additional water is needed, add another ¼ cup of water, at a time, until rice is cooked.

3. Meanwhile, in a 9” x 13” baking pan, place walnuts and bake in the oven for about 8 minutes, until lightly toasted.

4. Remove walnuts from the baking pan and then add the mushroom caps to the baking pan (excluding the stems), top sides facing down, and bake for 10 minutes.

5. Once rice has finished cooking, overly fill the cooked mushroom caps with the rice mixture. Bake in the oven for 10 minutes.

6. Place the walnuts and the parsley on a cutting board and finely chop. Garnish the baked stuff mushrooms with the parsley and walnut mixture.