baked portobello mushroom

Baked Portobello Mushrooms with Goat Cheese

This baked portobello mushrooms with goat cheese recipe is one of my favorites. It checks all the boxes of a great recipe in my book: few ingredients, minimal preparation, tasty, healthy, economical, and elegant to boot!

It is so simple a child can put it together. As a matter of fact it’s a great recipe to teach them how to cook. Yet elegant enough to serve at a dinner party and impress your guests.

Served with pasta or grains like polenta, farro or barley, it makes an easy and nutritious meatless dish. Add a green salad and you have a complete meal the whole family will enjoy!

Mushrooms

While mushrooms are at their peak in the fall and winter, they are really available year around. They are low calorie, provide protein, fiber, vitamins (especially B vitamins) and minerals (in particular selenium which is antioxidant) . Their legendary effects on promoting good health have recently been validated by science. Their earthy umami flavor provides a feeling of fullness that makes them an excellent meat substitute. All the more reasons for eating more mushrooms…

My recipe calls for 6 average mushroom caps of about 4″ diameter (roughly 85 g each). Just because that’s what fits in the particular dish I used the day I was filming the recipe… Served as a main dish with grains or pasta, 2 mushroom caps per person is a good size serving. Feel free to add more pasta sauce if you like a lot of sauce. I find that it’s not necessary to add salt to this dish. Goat cheese, olives and marinara sauce are already high in sodium. But again, it’s a matter of personal taste.

Tomato sauce

Now, if you are a purist you will want to make this recipe using your own homemade tomato sauce. In my opinion, there are some very good commercial sauces out there that allow you to skip that extra work. The convenience of keeping a jar of pasta sauce in your pantry is priceless. Just look for ones with all natural ingredients that you can pronounce, organic if possible. I generally use marinara sauce for this recipe, but you can experiment with any pasta sauce you like: roasted garlic, basil, spicy, Vodka tomato sauce (why not?).

Goat cheese

I also like to switch up the type of goat cheese I use. You can find all kinds of herbed, peppered or garlic flavored goat cheese in stores nowadays. If you get a log-shaped goat cheese, it’s easy to slice in nice little rounds that fit right inside the mushroom cap. Tip: use unflavored dental floss for easy slicing! But crumbles are fine if you can’t get nice little round patties… I am sure no one will complain!

Try these baked portobello mushrooms soon. You will get nothing but compliments!

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Farfalle pasta with mushrooms and spinach

Cream of mushroom soup

Mushroom kale and barley soup

Creamy mushroom and spinach pasta

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Baked portobello mushrooms with goat cheese

A simple, tasty and healthy meatless recipe that takes only minutes to throw together. Serve with pasta, polenta or any grain.
Prep Time15 minutes
Cook Time30 minutes
Total Time45 minutes
Servings: 6
Author: Veronique Eichler

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Preheat the oven to 375ºF.
  • Spread the sauce in the bottom of an oven proof baking dish. Arrange mushroom caps, gill side up, on top. Place a piece of goat cheese on each mushroom.
  • Sprinkle a pinch of salt (optional) and fresh ground pepper to taste.
  • Sprinkle evenly with olives.
  • Bake 30 minutes or until hot and bubbly.
  • Sprinkle with parsley and serve.

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Notes

Nutrition facts are per mushroom for an average 4″ diameter mushroom (about 85 g).
 
 

Nutrition

Nutrition Facts
Baked portobello mushrooms with goat cheese
Amount per Serving
Calories
112
% Daily Value*
Total Fat
 
7
g
11
%
Saturated Fat
 
4
g
25
%
Cholesterol
 
13
mg
4
%
Sodium
 
415
mg
18
%
Total Carbohydrate
 
6
g
2
%
Dietary Fiber
 
2
g
8
%
Total Sugars
 
4
g
4
%
Protein
 
8
g
16
%
Vitamin A
 
702
IU
14
%
Vitamin C
 
6
mg
7
%
Calcium
 
54
mg
5
%
Iron
 
1
mg
6
%
Potassium
 
462
mg
13
%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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2 Comments

  1. 5 stars
    Printed this out, it looks delicious! Goat cheese is the only cheese my husband can eat so I’m always on the look for recipes using it. Thanks!

    • Veronique Eichler

      Thank you! You will love the simplicity of this recipe, and then you can experiment with variations and additions to your taste… Enjoy!

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