Cooking for a Crowd Recipes
Mushrooms Casino
Yield: 25 servings
Ingredients
- 125 mushrooms
- 10 bacon strips, raw
- 1 1/4 pounds lean ground sausage
- 5 onions, chopped
- 1 pound celery, chopped
- 2 tablespoons hot sauce
- 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 5 teaspoons Old Bay Seasoning
- 1 1/2 cups bread crumbs, toasted
- 1 cup corn oil
Instructions
- Rinse mushrooms in a colander. Pat dry with paper towels. Remove the stem from each mushroom then hollow out the center of each mushroom cap. Set caps aside. Finely dice the stems and pieces. Reserve.
- Cut bacon strips into small pieces. Cook bacon until almost done. Remove bacon from pan and reserve. Remove all drippings from the pan.
- Add sausage to the pan and cook over medium heat for 10 minutes. Break the sausage up as it cooks.
- Thinly dice onion and stir into sausage. Add celery, hot sauce, Worcestershire, reserved mushroom pieces, cooked bacon and the Old Bay Seasoning. Stir and cook until all vegetables are soft.
- Add bread crumbs to pan, and carefully mix. If necessary, add bacon drippings to mixture to bind all ingredients together.
- Pour oil into a small bowl. Dipping a pastry brush into the oil, paint the outside of each mushroom cap. Place the caps on a sheet pan hollowed side up. Place an equal portion of the cooked meat and vegetables into each cap.
- Broil until lightly browned or bake at 350 degrees F for 10 to 12 minutes.