Champinones Al Ajillo, Spanish Garlic Mushrooms is a wonderful Tapas dish, often served as party food. It's really easy and quick to make too!

I first came across this dish whilst visiting the Canary Islands and thought it was delicious!

Spanish Garlic Mushrooms is a wonderful Tapas dish, often served as party food. Easy and quick to make and fantastic flavors. Also great as a side dish! | Lovefoodies.com

I then went along to a Tapas party my friend hosted and we made it then too.

This Champinones Al Ajillo, Spanish Garlic Mushrooms was served alongside a host of other tapas dishes, like you see in the photos, such as bacon-wrapped dates, mojo picante red pepper sauce, chicken wings, Spanish Meatballs, Albondigas and many more dishes. It was absolutely delicious!

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This is easy and quick to make and fantastic flavors.

Also great as a side dish!  This dish is often served as part of a Tapas meal, alongside many other dishes.

Enjoy with a glass of Sherry or a cold beer, serve with some warm crusty bread to mop up the juices!

The idea of tapas is the dishes need to be small, bite-size pieces, served in small bowls.

Everyone helps themselves to whatever they like.

You will often get small forks or toothpicks to eat with, so you do need to make sure you cut the mushrooms into small pieces, say quarter size, so people can pick them up easily with a toothpick or fork.

One of the key ingredients for Champinones al ajillo, or Spanish garlic Mushrooms, is the dry sherry used during cooking.

The alcohol is cooked off so it is child-friendly. However, the flavor the sherry adds to the mushrooms is out of this world!

It gives the mushrooms a slightly sweet flavor, and together with the garlic, it makes for a wonderful combination.

So let's get straight to the recipe and see how we make our Champinones Al Ajillo, Spanish Garlic Mushrooms. Please do enjoy!

Ingredients

10 Large Button Mushrooms, quartered
5 Cloves Garlic, minced
3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon lemon juice
2 tablespoons dry sherry
¼ Teaspoon Spanish Paprika
Ground Black Pepper and Sea Salt to season
¼ - ½ Teaspoon dried chili flakes (optional to suit)
1 Tablespoon Fresh, chopped flat-leaf parsley

Champinones Al Ajillo, Spanish Garlic Mushrooms is a wonderful Tapas dish, often served as party food. Easy and quick to make and fantastic flavors. Also great as a side dish! | Lovefoodies.com

Instructions

1. Quarter the mushrooms, chop the parsley, crush the garlic.

2. Over a medium heat, add the olive oil and saute the mushrooms for a few minutes.

Then add the remaining ingredients EXCEPT for the parsley. Cook for a further 5 minutes, stirring.

Then remove the pan from heat, add the chopped parsley and stir through.

Champinones Al Ajillo, Spanish Garlic Mushrooms is a wonderful Tapas dish, often served as party food. Easy and quick to make and fantastic flavors. Also great as a side dish! | Lovefoodies.com

Serve hot with some crusty bread.

We'd love to hear from you and what you thought of our Champinones Al Ajillo, Spanish Garlic Mushrooms recipe. Did you make any changes or add some other goodies? Let us know in the comments below. Thanks for reading and happy cooking!

Spanish Garlic Mushrooms is a wonderful Tapas dish, often served as party food. Easy and quick to make and fantastic flavors. Also great as a side dish! | Lovefoodies.com

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Spanish Garlic Mushrooms is a wonderful Tapas dish, often served as party food. Easy and quick to make and fantastic flavors. Also great as a side dish! | Lovefoodies.com

Champinones Al Ajillo, Spanish Garlic Mushrooms

Yield: 4
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 15 minutes

Champinones Al Ajillo, Spanish Garlic Mushrooms is a wonderful Tapas dish, often served as party food. It's really easy and quick to make too!

Ingredients

  • 10 Large Button Mushrooms, quartered
  • 5 Cloves Garlic, minced
  • 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice
  • 2 tablespoons dry sherry
  • ¼ Teaspoon Spanish Paprika
  • Ground Black Pepper and Sea Salt to season
  • ¼ - ½ Teaspoon dried chili flakes, optional to suit
  • 1 Tablespoon Fresh, chopped flat leaf parsley

Instructions

  1. Quarter the mushrooms, chop the parsley, crush the garlic.
  2. Over a medium heat, add the olive oil and sautee the mushrooms for a few minutes. Then add the remaining ingredients EXCEPT the parsley. Cook for a further 5 minutes, stirring. Then remove pan from heat, add the chopped parsley and stir through. Serve hot with some crusty bread.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 4 Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 111Total Fat: 10gSaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 9gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 197mgCarbohydrates: 4gFiber: 1gSugar: 1gProtein: 1g

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  1. Could I fix a large batch of these and keep the parsley off I would then package and freeze until I would like to have them again. After defrosting I would heat up and add fresh parsley. I am single and live in a motorhome YEAH so I cook once and eat several times from each batch of food. That way I am not cooking every day and I have a variety of foods to choose from. This would also be easy to pull one or two packages for company. I prefer to eat tapa style and have 3 or 4 items I can make a meal of. Thanks.

    1. Ooh, this looks tasty, I’m definately trying it.

      What is that salami wrapped arugula with nuts? It looks the nuts.

      Best Regards Chris

      1. Hi Chris, that one is very thin slices of smoked roasted beef (from the delicatessen) and then you spread a little seasoned cream cheese on the beef, add some arugula, and then roll the beef up into cigar-shaped rolls. Pan roast some pine nuts and simply sprinkle over the rolls. It’s really easy to make and tastes amazing!
        Hope that helps!
        If you can’t get smoked roasted beef slices, just use normal, but get as thin as possible so they roll up easily. Think of pancetta and how thin that is, then you’re on the right track!