Creamy Garlic Mushrooms. This is a very quick, easy, and delicious recipe, perfect as a side, serve on toast for brunch, or add to some lovely pasta!
This is an incredibly quick, easy, and flexible recipe that allows you to make ahead, or serve right away. I often serve this with a nice piece of steak and pour the sauce over it.
For this recipe, you can also go lighter and use a low-fat cream cheese.
Adding a splash of white wine whilst the mushrooms are cooking is also delicious! So feel free to adapt it to your liking.
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These creamy garlic mushrooms are our most popular recipe! With well over 1 million shares on social media, it's definitely a popular side dish. Thank you to all of you who've written in and shared your photos of making this dish. I know many of you have made it over Thanksgiving and Christmas, as well as for a regular weekday dinner. However you decide to serve these creamy garlic mushrooms, please do enjoy!
I've added some suggestions at the end of the recipe to hopefully inspire you to change it around (if you want to) and create a wonderful dish your family will enjoy.
This can be served as a starter, with some nice warm crusty bread to mop up the lovely sauce, or as a side dish, or as part of a pasta dish, or as a brunch, served on a slice of toast. The choice is yours, so please enjoy Creamy Garlic Mushrooms!
Prep Time
5 Minutes
Cook Time
20 Minutes
Serves
2
Ingredients you'll need
- 8 oz or 225 g whole white mushrooms
- 2 cloves of garlic, minced
- 2 tablespoons of Cream Cheese., you can also use low fat variety
- 1 teaspoon of fresh or dry herbs, such as tarragon, basil, parsley
- salt & pepper
- 1 teaspoon of Olive Oil
Instructions
1. Heat a pan with a teaspoon of oil and add the mushrooms and garlic over medium heat. Stir and toss until soft and a little liquid is released from the mushrooms. If the mushrooms do not release any liquid, add a couple of tablespoons of milk or broth. (Sometimes, depending on the season, mushrooms can vary in juiciness!)
2. Then add the cream cheese and combine. Add the herbs and taste, season to your taste with salt and pepper.
TIP:
To avoid the cream cheese from splitting, you should make sure the heat is not too hot, if you are not sure, remove the pan from the heat whilst you add the cream cheese, combine well, then return to a gentle heat until the sauce is bubbling gently and heated through completely.
As you will know, any cream products have a tendency to split or curdle if you add them to any high temperatures, so do not turn the heat up!!
3. Serve straight from the pan, or you can transfer to an oven dish and place in the oven (covered) to keep warm until you are ready to serve.
Suggestions for changing the recipe
- Add some chopped bacon
- Sprinkle some grated cheese and or breadcrumbs over the top and place under the grill/broiler until golden and melted
- Add some onion with the mushrooms
- Serve on a slice of toast for brunch, then place under the broiler/grill with some grated cheese. Delicious!
We've also used this recipe to make Creamy Chicken Livers, bacon and mushrooms. So good as a brunch on hot buttered toast, or as a dinner with rice or pasta!
Make up some of our creamy garlic butter sauce instead of the cream cheese and serve the mushrooms with that. Delicious!
Serve hot with anything you like! I often make this recipe to serve with a nice piece of steak, chicken or pork and use the sauce in the pan to pour over.
It is also nice to serve alongside pasta, and for this, I would remove the mushrooms from the pan once cooked, and toss the cooked pasta in the cream sauce, then serve with a sprinkling of Parmesan over the top.
The possibilities are endless and you can really use your imagination and experiment with the foods your family enjoy eating. Happy cooking!
We'd love to hear from you and what you thought of our creamy 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!
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Creamy Garlic Mushrooms
Creamy Garlic Mushrooms. This is a very quick, easy and delicious recipe, perfect as a side, serve on toast for brunch, or add to some lovely pasta!
Ingredients
- 8 oz or 225 g whole white mushrooms
- 2 cloves of garlic, minced
- 2 tablespoons of Cream Cheese., you can also use low fat variety
- 1 teaspoon of fresh or dry herbs, such as tarragon, basil, parsley
- salt & pepper
- 1 teaspoon of Olive Oil
Instructions
- Heat a pan with a teaspoon of oil and add the mushrooms and garlic on medium heat. Stir and toss until soft and a little liquid is released from the mushrooms. If the mushrooms do not release any liquid, add a couple of tablespoons of milk or broth. (Sometimes, depending on the season, mushrooms can vary in juiciness!)
- Then add the cream cheese and combine. Add the herbs and taste, season to your taste with salt and pepper.
- TIP: To avoid the cream cheese from splitting, you should make sure the heat is not too hot, if you are not sure, remove the pan from the heat whilst you add the cream cheese, combine well, then return to a gentle heat until the sauce is bubbling gently and heated through completely. As you will know, any cream products have a tendency to split or curdle if you add them to any high temperatures, so do not turn the heat up!!
- Serve straight from the pan, or you can transfer to an oven dish and place in the oven (covered) to keep warm until you are ready to serve.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 2 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 111Total Fat: 8gSaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 4gCholesterol: 14mgSodium: 200mgCarbohydrates: 9gFiber: 3gSugar: 3gProtein: 4g
Nutrition information isn’t always accurate
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Sabrina B.
says:I have made a version of this with bacon and most of the other ingredients but not with cream cheese so this looks like a nice twist also love garlic, so when I saw the garlic in this recipe I had to check it out while thinking, “why didn’t I think of that?” thank you for this recipe!
Patricia J Green
says:Is there a healthy way to make it. I have problems with salt and have been dieting and have lost 35 40 pounds but recently got a hold of something that is making me swell up.Salt on something
Siu
says:Oh I love this! Looks delicious! Quick question. I don’t drink a wine and know nothing about it ? But have always wanted to cook with it haha are there different types of white wine? Or can I just go to the store and find a bottle that says “white wine” in the wine &a liquor section lol thank you in advance!
Lovefoodies
says:Hi Sui, I would go for a small bottle of medium or dry white wine. No need to spend a fortune, just get a chardonnay or something similar and you will be fine! You will have some wine left over so you can try this recipe sometime for Chicken Stroganoff (It’s delicious with the wine in!) Easy recipe too! https://lovefoodies.com/creamy-chicken-stroganoff.html
linda gilmer
says:I love mushrooms! and will try it, adding a bit more olive oil and garlic (sorry, but I live in Italy).
I would also let the mushrooms give out more of their liquid and add a !/2 glass of white wine. But I will try your version first and then my one.
clarissa Fitzpatrick
says:I would love to get your recipe on how you would do this?
Judy
says:Love this recipe! To elevate it to company status, we add a heavy dash of cognac and fresh cracked pepper after adding the cream cheese. Simply cook for a minute or so at low simmer to evaporate the alcohol. Yum!
Kathy
says:Looks soo good, thank you.
Cara
says:I like cooking mushrooms, hmmmm yummy……
KalynsKitchen
says:Happy Friday! Just letting you know that I featured this in my weekly Low-Carb Recipe Love on Fridays post today. Hope a lot of my readers will click over here and try it!
Chito
says:Had this wth our grilled pork belly and it was great!!!
Ygolitely
says:I can’t get your recipes. Over an hour spent. No recipes appear, only comments?
Lovefoodies
says:Hi there! On some of the recipes you need to click ‘read more’ right under the photo and introduction, if you are using a mobile device. The reason for this is so the page will load faster for you. I hope that helps and so sorry you had trouble trying to get to the recipes!
Kim
says:Mouthwatering!
Teresa Guerriero
says:I have 2 questions…. First, I would like to try this using a pound of pasta. Would I have to double or triple the recipe? Second, my family loves mushrooms and I can never make enough of them. I would normally use 4 8oz cartons of mushrooms. Do I quadruple the recipe?
Stephanie
says:I just made these tonight and two of us had them on a pulled pork sandwich using hamburger buns. I made just one carton, each of us had one sandwich, and there was just enough for each of us to top ours with mushrooms. Don’t think that answers your question, but hopefully it helps!
Stephanie
says:Ps – I used Baby Bella mushrooms, basil for my seasoning, and quite a bit of chicken broth – my mushrooms didn’t produce liquid. Oh my goodness they were phenomenal. My husband said that he liked them on our pulled pork sandwiches better than bbq! Will definitely be putting this into our rotation… And making more than 8 oz next time!!!! Thanks for the WONDERFUL recipe. :)
Lovefoodies
says:That’s great news Stephanie and always so good when we get the thumbs up from hubby!!
Misty Dawn
says:Sooooo good! Tonight I tried this recipe. I used garlic, chives, scallions, and a little sweet basil for spices. I also made grilled asparagus, grilled chicken & thin spaghetti and I served it all stacked. Kids even devoured it! I made enough there *should* have been enough for lunches but no such luck! ?
Shannon Donohoe
says:I’m allergic to cream cheese, what can I use instead.
Lovefoodies
says:Hi Shannon, fear not! Sour cream or a thick plain yogurt, like a Greek Style yogurt, or creme fraiche all work really well with this instead of cream cheese.
Marilyn
says:DELICIOUS !!! I used cream cheese with chives and also added a little cream.
Lovefoodies
says:Hi Marilyn, So glad you enjoyed the recipe. It really is a lovely easy one and so flexible with the flavours.
Thanks for popping back and letting us know :)