Blue Cheese Stuffed Mushrooms W/ Apple, Walnuts & Sage

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 2 (8 ounce) packages mushrooms
• 1/2 cup blue cheese, crumbled
• 1/4 cup walnuts, chopped fine
• 1/4 cup apple, peeled and chopped fine
• 1/2 small onion, chopped fine
• 1 garlic clove, minced
• 2 tablespoons unsweetened applesauce
• 1 tablespoon fresh sage, minced
• 3 tablespoons sherry wine or 3 tablespoons wine or 3 tablespoons good beer
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1 pinch salt & fresh ground pepper

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 325.
• 2 carefully cut out the stems and center of each mushroom and chop the insides finely. heat the butter to a skillet over medium heat to melt. add the onions, garlic, apple, sage, sherry and chopped mushroom stems and cook until the mixture is translucent. separately combine blue cheese, walnuts & applesauce in a bowl. add the cooked ingredients to the cheese mixture w/ salt and pepper and mix well.
• 3 place mushroom caps on lightly greased cookie sheet(s) and fill each cap with he mixture, mounding if necessary.
• 4 bake for about 20 minutes or until the mushrooms darken and soften slightly.