Sunflower Stuffed Mushrooms
30 button mushrooms
1 cup sunflower seeds
1 tablespoon margarine (I use Earth Balance or Spectrum)
3 tablespoons diced onion
2 cloves minced garlic
1 vegetable bouillon cube
2 cups water
1 cup nutritional yeast
splash tamari
pepper, to taste
paprika, to taste
1 tablespoon arrowroot + 2 tablespoon water, optional
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Remove stems from mushrooms. Save stems for another recipe and set caps aside. Chop sunflower seeds in blender or food processor. Set aside.
2. Melt margarine in small saucepan. Toss in onion and garlic, and lightly brown. Add the water and bouillon cube, and bring to a boil to dissolve bouillon. Turn down heat and add sunflower seeds and nutritional yeast.
3. Stir occasionally and bring back to a boil. Add pepper, tamari and paprika. When sauce comes to boil reduce heat and let simmer for 2 or 3 minutes.
4. If you want sauce thicker, add the arrowroot mixture and bring to boil again. Sauce thickens as it cools. Once sauce has cooled, spoon into mushroom caps. Bake for 10-20 minutes.
SO HOW'D IT GO?
I never knew that it was possible to eat sunflower seeds. Yeah, I know that sunflower oil is taken from the seeds, but the very idea about stuffing them inside the mushroom was completely a new thing to me.
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