Portobello mushrooms with tomatoes, spinach and goat’s cheese
Meaty portobello mushrooms are an under-utilised vegetable. Their gorgeous savoury flavour and toothsome texture take the place of meat very nicely – and with more fibre.
This recipe is full of flavour and nutrients and makes a great main course with a vibrant, well-dressed, salad.
- Prep: 10 mins
- Cook: 10-15 mins
- Servings: 2
Ingredients
- 4 large portobello mushrooms, de-stalked and brushed with melted butter
- 20 baby tomatoes halved
- 1 small clove of garlic crushed
- 1 small red onion finely chopped roughly
- 300g spinach washed
- 120g goat’s cheese
- sea salt
- ½ teaspoon of sugar
- black pepper
- 1 dessert spoon tomato puree
- olive oil and butter for frying
Nuush clients: Please apply the portion sizes stated in your account and divide the recipe so that you make only as much you need.
Instructions
Gently grill or fry the mushrooms until cooked. Set to one side.
Fry the onion and garlic until soft then add the baby tomatoes and cook down. Add the puree, salt, pepper and sugar and cook for another couple of minutes.
In a separate pan wilt the spinach in hot butter, season.
Place the mushrooms gill-side-up on a grill pan and fill with the tomato mixture then top with the spinach and goat’s cheese.
Grill until the cheese melts.
Serve with salad and a good French dressing.
Optional – sprinkle over some toasted sourdough breadcrumbs.
Nutrition Info
Mushrooms
Mushrooms provide lots or Riboflavin (vitamin B2). Not only is this important for energy production but it also helps to bring iron out of storage and into cells. Mushrooms grown in sunlight contain good amounts of vitamin D, vit D is pretty elusive in the diet so it’s important to increase intake, we get most of it from sunlight ourselves but are so indoorsy these days! Vitamin D is critical for bone health and also boost immunity.
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Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories.
Paul Stamets
Portion Guidelines
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