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    Home > Vegan Entrees

    Chili Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms

    By My Pure Plants on 05/11/2021 - May contain affiliate links. Please read our disclosure.

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    What’s not to love about stuffed portobello mushrooms? Depending on their filling, they can be a perfect appetizer, side or main dish. In this recipe take large mushroom caps stuff them with a hearty vegan bean chili, baked them in the oven with melted cheese on top. Absolutely delicious for a weeknight dinner or for holidays like Thanksgiving or Christmas.

    Close-up of a vegan stuffed portobello mushroom on the baking sheet with small bowls of grated cheese and chopped spring onion at the background

    Do you love mushrooms? We have lots of yummy recipes with small portobello mushrooms (aka button mushrooms). We add them to soup, stew, curry, kabob, and risotto. If you are looking for a recipe for large caps portobellos try our Epic Fajitas Portobello Mushroom Burger. It is smoky, spicy and delicious. Browse through for even more mushroom recipes.

    Table of Contents hide
    1. Best mushrooms to stuff
    2. What should be the stuffing?
    3. 3 steps to make stuffed portobello mushrooms
    4. How to prepare the mushroom caps?
    5. Making the chili stuffing
    6. Baking the stuffed mushroom caps
    7. What to serve with vegan stuffed portobello mushrooms?
    8. More vegan portobello mushroom recipes
    9. More vegan dinner recipes
    10. Chili Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms

    Best mushrooms to stuff

    In short, any mushroom that has a large enough cap to stuff the filling somewhere. Small ones can be stuffed and turned into appetizer or side, but you need large caps if you want your stuffed mushrooms to be the main course.

    As far as we know portobello mushrooms are the most accessible mushrooms with the largest cap. You can probably find them in most stores for an affordable price.

    Do you know that portobello mushrooms have several names? 

    Small white immature ones are usually called cremini/crimini mushrooms, or white/brown button mushrooms or baby bella mushrooms or Italian brown mushrooms or champignon mushrooms. While large brown mature ones are called portobello mushrooms in store. But essentially all of the above is portobello mushroom. You can find more names here.

    So don’t get discouraged if you can’t find portobello mushrooms in your local store. Look for these other names from the list above.

    What should be the stuffing?

    It depends whether you want them as appetizer or as the main course meal. We love to serve them as dinner so we prefer large mushroom caps loaded with a hearty, veggie-based stuffing to get a delicious and filling meal. In this recipe we stuffed portobello mushrooms with the Best Damn Vegan Bean Chili.

    However, we have a couple of other ideas you can use as stuffing:

    • Lentil Bolognese Ragú (we make it as part of our Easy Vegan Lasagna recipe)
    • Cauliflower Mushroom Bolognese Ragú (we make it as part of our Vegan Spaghetti Bolognese recipe)
    • Quinoa Sweet Potato Chili
    • Spicy Samosa (we make this filling in our Rice Paper Samosa recipe)
    • Ratatouille or Hungarian Lecso or Chickpea Shakshuka
    • Mexican Beans and Rice (we make it as part of our Mexican Vegan Rice Casserole)

    Let us know in the comments what is your favorite!

    Close-up of a stuffed portobello mushroom on the baking sheet topped with grated cheese and chopped spring onion

    3 steps to make stuffed portobello mushrooms

    Making stuffed portobello mushrooms is super easy and they look too pretty not to bake them often. Whether you want them to be a killer appetizer, a scrumptious side or the main attraction, you need only 3 steps:

    1. Choosing your mushroom
    2. Choose your stuffing
    3. Ready! Set! Bake!

    How to prepare the mushroom caps?

    • Gently clean them with a damn paper towel or clean kitchen cloth. Don’t rinse them and make them soggy!
    • We never peel portobello mushrooms, but we do snap the stalk out leaving only the gills in.
    • You also don’t need to scrape the gills out. They are absolutely delicious.
    • Drizzle it with a bit of olive oil and sprinkle it with a bit of black pepper and salt.
    • We don’t use a non-stick baking sheet per se, just brush the top of the cap with a bit of olive oil to avoid any possible sticking.
    4 large mushroom caps on a baking tray (no stalk) ready to be stuffed

    Making the chili stuffing

    You can find detailed instructions, step-by-step photos, faqs and substitutions and 1-min video tutorial in our Easy Vegan Chili recipe. But here is how to make it step by step.

    1. Peel and chop onion and garlic. Wash and chop bell pepper, tomato, and celery. Wash, peel and slice carrots. Cook millet.
    2. Take a large pan and cook the chopped onion and garlic in a bit of olive oil.
    3. Add smoked paprika powder and stir for a minute to activate its flavor.
    4. Add sliced carrots, chopped tomatoes, bay leaves and the chocolate next. Stir and cook for a minute.
    5. Add chopped bell peppers, chopped celery, red wine and tomato sauce. Bring them to boil.
    6. Season it with ground basil, oregano, and parsley and cook the chili until all vegetables are tender. It will take approx. 15 minutes.
    7. Finally, add drained canned beans, sweet corn and cooked millet.
    8. Check seasoning and add a bit of heat in the form of sriracha or hot chili powder.
    Large frying pan with vegan chili. A wooden spatula is dipped into it.

    Baking the stuffed mushroom caps

    First, pre-heat the oven to 395 Fahrenheit (200 degrees Celsius). We only season the mushroom caps with salt and pepper as the stuffing will give them additional flavor. Large caps are soft and ready in approx. 20 minutes.

    4 stuffed portobello mushrooms on the baking sheet with small bowls of grated cheese and chopped spring onion on the sides.

    What to serve with vegan stuffed portobello mushrooms?

    We like to eat chili stuffed mushrooms with toppings like

    • grated cheese or vegan parmesan or cashew cream cheese
    • Dairy-free Sour Cream
    • guacamole or chopped avocado,
    • hot salsa,
    • spring onion, chives, or cilantro,
    • breadcrumbs.

    As for sides, we’d like to eat them with

    • fresh and light salad like this Quick Garden Salad or this Easy Vegan Coleslaw
    • veggie fries
    • Vegan Mashed Potatoes
    • quinoa, rice, Sweet Potato “Rice” or even cauliflower rice

    Let us know in the comments what is your favorite side dish!

    One vegan stuffed portobello mushroom on a small plate and the other 3 is in the background on the baking tray topped with grated cheese and chopped spring onion

    This Vegan Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms recipe is meat-free, dairy-free and egg-free. It is also suitable for vegan, vegetarian, nut-free and gluten-free diets. It is only compliant with WFPB (whole foods plant-based) if you sautee veggies in water or veggie broth for the chili and skip brushing the mushrooms with oil before baking. Skip or use oil-free vegan cheese.

    More vegan portobello mushroom recipes

    • Epic Fajitas Portobello Mushroom Burger
    • Vegan Portobello Mushroom Fajitas
    • Vegan Cream of Mushroom Soup
    • Vegan Mushroom Risotto
    • Mushroom Meatballs with Caramelized Carrot Sauce

    More vegan dinner recipes

    You can browse through our Vegan and Gluten-free Dinner Recipes or our Quick Vegan Meals collection or check out

    • Vegan Spaghetti Bolognese
    • Eggplant Meatballs Spaghetti
    • Vegan Shepherd’s Pie
    • Vegan Lentil Lasagna
    • Vegan Wellington
    4 mushrooms on a silver baking sheet stuffed with chili topped with melted grated cheese and chopped spring onion

    Chili Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms

    My Pure Plants
    What's not to love about stuffed portobello mushrooms? Depending on their filling, they can be a perfect appetizer, side or main dish. In this recipe take large mushroom caps stuff them with a hearty vegan bean chili, baked them in the oven with melted cheese on top. Absolutely delicious for a weeknight dinner or for holidays like Thanksgiving or Christmas.
    5 from 7 votes
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    Prep Time 5 mins
    Cook Time 30 mins
    Baking time 20 mins
    Total Time 55 mins
    Course Appetizer, Main Course, Side Dish
    Servings 4 people
    Calories 92.2kcal

    Equipment

    • Non-stick frying pan (10.5 inch / 26 cm)
    • Non-stick baking sheet
    • our Cast-iron Skillet by UnoCasa
    • Cast-iron Dutch Oven (3-quart / 2.8 liter)

    Ingredients
      

    • 8-10 large caps Portobello mushrooms depending on size
    • Vegan Chili approx. 4 Tbsp per mushroom cap
    • 8 Tbsp Shredded vegan cheese
    • Olive oil
    • Salt and Pepper to taste

    Vegan Chili

    • ½ Onion
    • 2 cloves Garlic
    • 1 Tomato (medium)
    • 1 Carrots (medium)
    • ½ Bell pepper (red, yellow, green)
    • ½ Celery stalk
    • 1 cup Sieved tomato puree aka Tomato sauce
    • 1 cup Beans (black, red and white mixed)
    • ½ cup Sweet corn (canned)
    • ¼ cup Millet cooked
    • ¼ cup Red wine
    • 1 cube Chocolate or cocoa powder
    • ¼ Sweet smoked paprika powder
    • 1 Bay leaves
    • ¼ Basil
    • ¼ Oregano
    • ¼ Parsley
    • ¼ Sriracha (or any other chili paste)
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    Instructions
     

    Prepare the portobello mushrooms

    • Gently wash the mushroom caps with a damp paper towel or kitchen cloth. No need to peel, just snap the stalk out leaving only the gills in. No need to scrape the gills.

    Let's make the stuffing

    • Our favorite stuffing is an easy vegan chili loaded with veggies, legumes and grains. You can find detailed instructions with step-by-step photos and 1-min video tutorial by visiting our Easy Vegan Chili recipe.
    • Peel and chop onion and garlic. Wash and chop bell pepper, tomato, and celery. Wash, peel and slice carrots. Cook millet.
    • Take a large pan and cook the chopped onion and garlic in a bit of olive oil.
    • Add smoked paprika powder and stir for a minute to activate its flavor.
    • Add sliced carrots, chopped tomatoes, bay leaves and the chocolate next. Stir and cook for a minute.
    • Add chopped bell peppers, chopped celery, red wine and tomato sauce. Bring them to boil. Season it with ground basil, oregano, and parsley and cook the chili until all vegetables are tender. It will take approx. 15 minutes.
    • Finally, add drained canned beans, sweet corn and cooked millet. Check seasoning and add a bit of heat in the form of sriracha or hot chili powder.

    Baking the stuffed portobello mushrooms

    • First, pre-heat the oven to 395 Fahrenheit (200 degrees Celsius). Add a splash of olive oil and season the mushroom caps with salt and pepper. Add 3-4 Tablespoon stuffing to each cap and top them with grated cheese. Large caps are soft and ready in approx. 20 minutes.
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    Notes

    We like to eat chili stuffed portobello mushrooms with toppings like
    • grated cheese or vegan parmesan or cashew cream cheese
    • vegan sour cream
    • guacamole or chopped avocado,
    • hot salsa,
    • spring onion, chives, or cilantro,
    • breadcrumbs.
    A quick & useful tip: they have a lot of other names so don’t get discouraged if you can’t find portobello mushrooms in your local store. Try to look for cremini/crimini mushrooms, or white/brown button mushrooms or baby bella mushrooms or Italian brown mushrooms or champignon mushrooms. They all practically the same.

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    Nutrition

    Nutrition Facts
    Chili Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms
    Amount Per Serving (1 serving)
    Calories 92.2 Calories from Fat 24
    % Daily Value*
    Fat 2.7g4%
    Saturated Fat 1.3g8%
    Polyunsaturated Fat 0.2g
    Monounsaturated Fat 0.5g
    Sodium 228mg10%
    Potassium 450mg13%
    Carbohydrates 14g5%
    Fiber 3.4g14%
    Sugar 4.4g5%
    Protein 4.1g8%
    Vitamin A 1298IU26%
    Vitamin C 13mg16%
    Calcium 22mg2%
    Iron 1mg6%
    * Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

    UPDATED: This post was originally published in September 2019, but was updated with detailed instructions, and even more tips and serving ideas on May 2021.

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    1. Mel

      September 30, 2019 at 1:24 pm

      5 stars
      Stuffed Portobello mushrooms are like heaven on a plate, right? Your vegan version looks absolutely delicious.

      Reply
      • My Pure Plants

        September 30, 2019 at 1:52 pm

        Thank you. I absolutely agree. Love stuffed mushrooms in so many ways.

        Reply
    2. Kelly Anthony

      September 30, 2019 at 1:23 pm

      5 stars
      Mushrooms are always a crowd favorite so this will be perfect for serving at our next gathering.

      Reply
      • My Pure Plants

        September 30, 2019 at 1:53 pm

        Yes, they are. There are so many tasty dishes with mushrooms. They are so versatile.

        Reply
    3. Demeter

      September 30, 2019 at 12:56 pm

      5 stars
      I could definitely make a meal out of these! So filling and delicious!

      Reply
      • My Pure Plants

        September 30, 2019 at 1:54 pm

        Thanks for your kind words.

        Reply
    4. Danielle Wolter

      September 30, 2019 at 10:51 am

      5 stars
      oh wow, these look incredible! That chili sounds amazing, I am excited to just try that too!

      Reply
      • My Pure Plants

        September 30, 2019 at 1:54 pm

        Thanks Danielle. If it is fall, I make chili. 🙂

        Reply

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