Johnny Carino’s Baked Stuffed Mushrooms Recipe

Johnny Carino’s Baked Stuffed Mushrooms are delectable appetizers filled with a savory mixture of Italian sausage, cheeses, and herbs, baked to perfection, offering a burst of flavor with each bite.

Make our Johnny Carino’s Baked Stuffed Mushrooms Recipe at home. Johnny Carino’s Baked Stuffed Mushrooms Appetizer is a delicious way to start any meal – Italian or not.

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Johnny Carino's Baked Stuffed Mushrooms Recipe

Make our Johnny Carino's Baked Stuffed Mushrooms Recipe at home. Johnny Carino's Baked Stuffed Mushrooms Appetizer is a delicious way to start any meal - Italian or not.

Prep Time45 minutes mins

Active Time10 minutes mins

Total Time55 minutes mins

Course: Appetizer, Party Recipe

Cuisine: Italian

Keyword: Johnny Carino's

Yield: 12 Appetizer Servings

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup Johnny Carino's Lemon Basil Cream Sauce (Recipe below)
• 1/8 cup chopped Garlic
• 4 cups chopped Spinach
• 2/3 cup diced Red Onion
• 2/3 cup shredded Asiago Cheese
• 1/2 cup Romano Cheese
• 1/4 cup shredded Parmesan Cheese
• 1 teaspoon freshly ground Black Pepper to taste
• 1 1/2 tablespoons Sauté Spice Mix (1/2 tablespoon each of Salt, Black Pepper, and Garlic Salt)
• 1 cup Seasoned Bread Crumbs
• 1/2 cup Eggs
• Large Mushroom Caps cleaned and stems removed
• 1/8 cup diced Roma Tomatoes to garnish
• 1 tablespoon fresh Basil julienned, to garnish
• 1 tablespoon grated Parmesan/finely chopped Parsley mix to garnish

Instructions

• Prepare Johnny Carino's Lemon Basil Cream Sauce according to recipe below.
• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• In a large metal mixing bowl, combine garlic, spinach, onion, Asiago cheese, Romano cheese, Parmesan cheese black pepper, sauté spice, bread crumbs and eggs. Fold together until mixture begins to form into a single mass.
• Place approximately 1 1/2 tablespoons of mixtures into each mushroom cap.
• Place stuffed mushrooms caps on sheet pan stuffing side up.
• Place in preheated oven. Bake 10 minutes.
• Remove and cool immediately.
• Warm cream sauce in a saucepan on stove or in microwave.
• Place mushrooms in a large serving dish or 4 - 6 in individual serving dishes.
• Ladle heated cream sauce over mushrooms.
• Top with diced Roma tomatoes. Sprinkle with fresh basil strips. Dust with Parmesan/parsley mix.
• Serve hot.

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Johnny Carino's Lemon Basil Cream Sauce Recipe

Prep Time10 minutes mins

Active Time15 minutes mins

Total Time25 minutes mins

Course: Sauce

Cuisine: Italian

Keyword: Johnny Carino's

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons Butter
• 2 cloves Garlic minced
• 1 cup Half-and-Half
• 1 cup Chicken Broth
• 1/4 cup Lemon Juice
• 2 tablespoons Cornstarch
• 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground Black Pepper to taste

Instructions

• Add butter to a large skillet. Place over medium-high heat and melt butter.
• Add garlic. Sauté 1 to 2 minutes.
• Add half-and-half and chicken broth. Bring to a boil. Cook 8 minutes or until reduced by 1/2.
• Whisk together lemon juice and cornstarch until smooth.
• Whisk lemon juice mixture and pepper into butter mixture. Cook, whisking constantly, 2 minutes or until thickened. Remove from heat.

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Photo of “Jim’s Belated Birthday at Johnny Carino’s (4)” is by Laura Eulalia Silva and is used by permission under the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Creative Commons License. Read the Full License Here – https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/legalcode. Thank you, Laura Eulalia Silva. Great Picture. Photos may be “representative” of the recipe and not the actual finished dish. All photo licenses listed were correct at the time of the posting of the page. Recipe is our adaption of several recipes formally widely-circulated on the internet – courtesy of the Wayback Machine. Additional Information Courtesy of Wikipedia and is used by permission.