Best 7 Bacon Mushroom Stuffed Zucchini Recipes

BACON STUFFED MUSHROOMS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Place bacon in a large skillet and cook over medium-high heat, turning occasionally, until evenly browned, about 10 minutes. Transfer bacon slices to paper towels, reserving bacon drippings in the skillet. Crumble bacon when cooled.
• Remove stems from mushrooms and set stems aside. Place mushrooms, hollow sides up, on a baking sheet; brush the insides with melted butter.
• Chop mushroom stems; cook and stir chopped stems, black olives, green onion, and crumbled bacon in the bacon drippings over medium heat until mushroom stems release their liquid, about 5 minutes. Add garlic, salt, black pepper, and cayenne pepper; stir to coat.
• Tilt the skillet slightly; move vegetable-bacon mixture to one side, allowing the bacon drippings to pool to the other side. Whisk flour into bacon drippings until smooth and paste-like; slowly stir in milk until gravy is smooth. Mix vegetable-bacon mixture into the gravy. Add American cheese and Parmesan cheese; cook and stir until cheeses melt, about 5 minutes. Spoon filling into mushroom caps.
• Bake in the preheated oven until mushrooms are tender and filling is lightly browned, about 20 minutes. Remove mushrooms from baking sheet and cool on platter for 2 minutes before serving.

BACON AND CHEDDAR STUFFED MUSHROOMS

Steps:

• Place bacon in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. Drain, dice and set aside.
• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
• Remove mushroom stems. Set aside caps. Chop the stems.
• In a large saucepan over medium heat, melt the butter. Slowly cook and stir the chopped stems and onion until the onion is soft. Remove from heat.
• In a medium bowl, stir together the mushroom stem mixture, bacon and 1/2 cup Cheddar. Mix well and scoop the mixture into the mushroom caps.
• Bake in the preheated oven 15 minutes, or until the cheese has melted.
• Remove the mushrooms from the oven, and sprinkle with the remaining cheese.

BACON STUFFED ZUCCHINI

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• Cut zucchini lengthwise, and using a spoon, scoop out the seeds; discard.
• Continue scooping out flesh (save this and dice) until you have a zucchini boat (about 1/2 inch thick; don't scoop too thin or your zucchini will turn to complete mush).
• In a large skillet, add butter and oil to medium-high heat.
• Saute mushrooms and onions for about 4 to 5 minutes.
• Add broccoli, bell peppers, saved zucchini and garlic; cook about 3 minutes more.
• Add salt, pepper, cayenne, and cumin.
• Mix in half of the cheese and half of the cooked bacon.
• Scoop filling into the hollowed out zucchini(s).
• Place onto foil lined baking sheet; cover with another sheet of foil and crimp the edges of the 2 sheets together to make a foil packet.
• Poke a few SMALL holes in the top of the packet.
• Bake for 15-20 minutes (less if you have small zucchinis).
• Remove from oven; remove top foil sheet.
• Cover in remaining cheese and bacon.
• Place back in oven (uncovered) for a few minutes until cheese melts.

BACON WRAPPED STUFFED MUSHROOMS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• In a medium bowl, mix together the green onions and cream cheese . Stuff mushroom caps with the cheese mixture. Wrap each mushroom with a half-slice of bacon, and secure with toothpicks. Place on a baking sheet.
• Bake for 20 minutes in the preheated oven, until the bacon is cooked through.

MUSHROOM AND SPINACH STUFFED ZUCCHINI

Steps:

• Slice the zucchini in half lengthwise and, using a small spoon, scoop out the insides of the zucchini to leave a fillable shell.
• Set aside.
• In a skillet, saute the onions, garlic, and salt in the oil on low heat, stirring often, until the onions soften.
• Add the mushrooms, dill, sherry, and soy sauce and cook for about 5 minutes more.
• When the mushrooms are just tender, remove from the heat and set aside.
• Preheat the oven to 350*F.
• While the mushrooms are cooking, rinse and stem the spinach.
• In a saucepan, steam the spinach leaves in enough water to cover until wilted but still bright green.
• Drain and add it to the sauteed vegetables.
• Stir in the rice and add salt and pepper to taste.
• Pour the tomato juice evenly around the bottom of an unoiled 8x12" glass or nonreactive baking dish.
• Press and mound 1/6 of the filling into each zucchini shell and arrange them in the baking dish.
• Sprinkle on the grated cheese, cover the pan tightly with foil, and bake for about 30 minutes, until the zucchini are tender and easily pierced with a fork.
• Uncover and bake for another 5 to 10 minutes, until the tops are browned.

BACON, MUSHROOM, ZUCCHINI SCRAMBLE

Steps:

• Place bacon slices on frying pan over low heat. You can bunch them up into little rosettes, that way the bacon will stay a bit juicy.
• When bacon has just begun to brown, add the onions, mushrooms and zucchini to the pan. Increase heat to medium and fry, stirring occaisonally, till veggies have browned.
• Meanwhile, beat the eggs with the sour cream. Add salt and pepper.
• Pour egg mixture over the veggies in the pan. Let the mixture set a little, then scramble.
• Sprinkle cheese on top of the scrambled eggs and let it melt, then stir everything around once more to combine.
• Serve with toast.

ZUCCHINI AND CHEESE STUFFED MUSHROOMS

Steps:

• Remove stems from mushrooms and discard; set caps aside. Arrange zucchini in a vegetable steamer over boiling water in a Dutch oven.
• Cover and steam 5 minutes.
• Place zucchini on several layers of paper towels; cover with additional paper towels.
• Let stand 15 minutes, pressing down occasionally to remove moisture. Combine zucchini and next 6 ingredients; stir well.
• Spoon mixture evenly into mushroom caps.
• Carefully arrange mushrooms in a single layer in steamer over boiling water in pan.
• Cover and steam 6 minutes or until mushrooms are barely tender.
• Arrange mushrooms on a serving platter; sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. Serve immediately.