Portabello Mushroom Pizzas – WLS Recipe
Portabello Mushroom Pizzas – WLS Recipe
After having such success with my Loaded Pizza on Cauliflower Crust, I decided to give another low-carb pizza recipe a go!
Portabello mushrooms are the large mushrooms that are great for having a “stuffed mushroom” as a dinner choice. Any recipe you have for stuffed mushroom can be made a bigger scale, still small enough for one, but not the small appetizer sizes you’re used to.
For this recipe, I used my Pampered Chef Microwave Egg Cooker. The deep wells were perfect for sitting my mushrooms. You can use a baking sheet lined with foil as well.
I browned the ground chicken meat with a few spices first. Then layered the ingredients in the mushrooms. Baked and voila! All the flavors of pizza in a stuffed mushroom! Delish! And less work than the cauliflower crust…which is worth the work…but I was thankful for a faster recipe :)
Portabello Mushroom Pizzas - WLS Recipe
Ingredients
- 1/2 lb ground chicken (or turkey)
- 1 tbsp dried oregano
- 1 tsp each salt & pepper
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 cup chopped fresh spinach
- 2 large portabello mushroom caps
- 8 oz tomato sauce
- 1 oz low-fat mozzarella cheese
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375. Meanwhile, brown the ground chicken. Add oregano, salt and pepper. Add fresh garlic and fresh spinach. Sauté about 5 minutes, stirring to combine. Remove from heat and set aside.
- Dab the mushroom caps with a web paper towel to clean. Remove the stem and the "guts" with a spoon. Place on baking sheet or baking stone.
- Divide the tomato sauce evenly in the bottom of the mushroom caps. Add the chicken mixture. Top with low-fat mozzarella cheese.
- Bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes.
I use mushrooms to house seafood salad, but even though I’m not a pizza fan — gonna try this one! Thank you :)
That’s a great idea! Yes, let me know what you think!
Made this earlier this week, and even my husband and my skinny non mushroom fan friend loved it! Really tasty! Love your cookbook!
@carol Yay! What a great report back! Thank you for taking the time for a message :)
I’ve not tried yet but need to know what’s making the sodium so high. I need to lower sodium & cholesterol.. help?
Cholesterol is from animal product so if you use lean ground meats (90% lean or greater) and reduced-fat cheese that will help. To reduce sodium you can omit the salt and use a no salt added tomato sauce.