Savory Stuffed Onions, Mushrooms, Sausage and Bell Peppers

Name: Savory Stuffed Onions, Mushrooms, Sausage and Bell Peppers
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 42 serving(s)
Ingredients: 24 mushroom caps; 3 large sweet onions, sliced 1/4 in thick; 3 -4 sweet peppers or 3 -4 hot peppers, halved horizontally & seeded; 1 cup grated parmesan cheese (optional) or 1 cup romano cheese (optional); 8 ounces cream cheese; 3 -5 tablespoons melted butter; 1 cup bulk sausage; 1/2 cup celery; 1 cup onion; oregano; basil; 1/2 teaspoon poultry seasoning; salt; pepper, to taste; 3 cups Italian style breadcrumbs; 3 tablespoons olive oil; 2 cups grated parmesan cheese or 2 cups romano cheese; 1 tablespoon garlic powder; 2 beaten eggs; water, enough to moisten

Submitted by Aroostook

"These are a great side dish for a BBQ and substantial enough for a summer meal. This is for the oven but feel free to cook these in foil on the grill. (Note: Onions may be a bit firm. If you wish, precook the slices a bit or cook separately and bake a little longer.)"

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Ready In:: 1hr
Ingredients:: 20
Serves:: 42

ingredients

24 mushroom caps
3 large sweet onions, sliced 1/4 in thick
3 -4 sweet peppers or 3 -4 hot peppers, halved horizontally & seeded
1 cup grated parmesan cheese (optional) or 1 cup romano cheese (optional)
8 ounces cream cheese
3 -5 tablespoons melted butter
1 cup bulk sausage
¹⁄₂ cup celery
1 cup onion
oregano
basil
¹⁄₂ teaspoon poultry seasoning
salt
pepper, to taste
Basic stuffing
3 cups Italian style breadcrumbs
3 tablespoons olive oil
2 cups grated parmesan cheese or 2 cups romano cheese
1 tablespoon garlic powder
2 beaten eggs
water, enough to moisten

directions

Divide stuffing into three bowls.
In three small fry pans: Brown a cup of favorite sausage and drain on paper toweling.
Sauté a cup of minced onion in butter or cooking spray.
Sauté a ½ cup of minced celery in a bit of butter or cooking spray.
Preheat oven to 350°F.
Stuffed Peppers: Add browned sausage, 1/3 cup sautéed onions, ½ tsp oregano and/or dried basil to 1/3 stuffing mixture.
Add 1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened.
Mix well and stuff pepper halves.
Place on a baking sheet, and bake in the preheated oven 20 to 25 minutes, until stuffing is lightly brown and bubbly.
Stuffed Onions: Brush onions with olive oil.
Add 1/3 cup sautéed onions, ½ cup sautéed celery, ½ tsp poultry seasoning to 1/3 stuffing mix.
Top onion slices with a mound of stuffing and place on a baking sheet.
Drizzle a bit of butter on top and sprinkle w/ grated cheese.
Bake 20-25 minutes.
Stuffed mushrooms: Remove stems from mushrooms.
Chop stems fine.
Coat mushroom caps with oil and set aside.
Add 1/3 cup sautéed onions, and chopped mushroom stems to stuffing mixture.
Stuff caps with mixture.
Place mushrooms on baking sheet.
Drizzle tops with a bit of butter and a sprinkle of grated cheese.
Bake 20-25 minutes.

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Aroostook

United States

Zaar...Wow, what a place! I'm one of the old timers of Zaar. I can't count the number of wonderful dishes I cooked in the past few years since joining. Along the way I have had the pleasure of meeting several Zaar chefs. Talk about your fruits and nuts! lol. I have enjoyed meeting them all. Family: What's to say...I have had the same sweet husband forever (Good thing....I'd hate to have to break a new one in...=) and live close to a couple of grown children. (Maybe you've met Smoke Alarm Jr. ..her brown rolls are sooo good!) Therefore, my family gets together often to enjoy each other's company and cooking. My greatest joy is six "little to tallerthanme" kids running around calling me Grammy. They wear me out! lol For the past thirty years I have been a Special Education teacher for grades 9-12 and love it. Took some time off last year to recovery from surgery, chemotherapy and radiation for breast cancer. (Loved the radiation....I keep imagining that we are absolutely napalming the nasty cancer cells tohellandback to keep the little suckers from returning. =) My prognosis is good and now "I'm back in the saddle again". lol. Being a north country "gurl", I am happiest outside...walking, fishing, sitting in front of an outdoor fire or being on water (although in February it's a bit stiff....=0) When indoors I like to read, garden, knit, quilt and paint. During cold Maine weather I like to warm my feet on a very large ( 100 pounds of long legs and huge feet), sweet and furry golden retriever named Kerry (aka KTBRD: Kerry the big red dawg..lol) . In the summer, the dawg and I round up the grandkids, hit the local dairy bar for a Mounds Sundae that is to die for!!!=0) . Then spend a lot of long and lazy summer days at camp . All in all...Boy, Life is good! =)

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