BEFORE

Classic Stuffed Mushrooms
Calories: 170
Fat: 14g
Saturated Fat: 3.5g

AFTER

America’s Test Kitchen’s Light Stuffed Mushrooms
Calories: 60
Fat: 3g
Saturated Fat: 0.5g

HOW WE GOT THERE

• Mushroom fillings usually get a flavor boost from sausage or bacon, which add richness but overwhelm any real mushroom flavor. Instead of employing a calorie-packed base of meat, we filled our stuffing with chopped mushrooms, which we sautéed to cook off excess liquid.
• Grated Parmesan added a nice sharp contrast to the woodsiness of the mushrooms—and because of its concentrated flavor, we didn’t need to use very much.
• Many traditional stuffed mushroom recipes use as much as a full cup of breadcrumbs to bind the filling. But because we had such a mushroom-rich stuffing to begin with, we could get away with half of that amount.

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