Spicy Shrimp-Stuffed Mushrooms

These mushroom appetizers are stuffed with spicy cayenne-infused cream cheese, then breaded and topped with shrimp for the perfect indulgent finger food.

• Preparation Time: 40 mins
• Cooking Time: 25 mins
• Total Time: 1 hr 5 mins
• Calories: 115 Calories

Ingredients

• salt to taste
• ground black pepper to taste
• 4 cloves garlic
• 1 tablespoon butter, or as needed
• 16 mushrooms
• 16 uncooked medium shrimp, peeled and deveined
• 0.5 teaspoon cayenne pepper, or to taste
• 0.75 cup bread crumbs
• 1.5 cups cream cheese

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

Step 2

Carefully remove mushroom stems and chop stems into small pieces. Set mushroom caps aside.

Step 3

Heat butter in a skillet over medium heat. Add mushroom stems and garlic. Cook and stir until soft, 3 to 5 minutes. Remove from heat.

Step 4

Combine cream cheese, cayenne pepper, black pepper, and salt together in a bowl. Stir in cooked mushroom stem mixture, retaining butter in the skillet.

Step 5

Return skillet to medium heat and add shrimp. Cook and stir until shrimp are just opaque, 3 to 5 minutes. Remove from heat.

Step 6

Pour bread crumbs into a shallow bowl. Fill each mushroom cap with cream cheese mixture and press mushroom, cream cheese-side down, into the bread crumbs to coat the top. Stick a cooked shrimp on top of each filled mushroom and place into a baking pan.

Step 7

Bake in the preheated oven until hot and juicy, about 20 minutes.