This keto bacon stuffed mushrooms recipe is an easy keto appetizer that you can also serve with a salad for lunch or dinner.
Everything tastes better with bacon and cheese, even mushrooms that taste perfectly amazing on their own. These delightful little morsels only have 1 gram of net carbs in each bite! Keep reading for the entire recipe and some of my best tips.
Similar Keto Mushroom Recipes: Low Carb Garlic Butter Mushrooms, Keto Creamed Spinach With Mushrooms & Bacon
Best Keto Stuffed Mushrooms
These bacon and spinach stuffed mushrooms taste the best when they are fresh out of the oven. They come out steaming hot, melted cheese bubbling from inside the mushrooms. The best thing about these mushrooms is that they are made with fresh ingredients. While you can certainly use thawed frozen spinach in a pinch, they taste a lot better when you use raw spinach leaves.
If you don’t have parmesan cheese, you can use mozzarella cheese instead.
Easy Keto Appetizers
Serve these keto bacon stuffed mushrooms at your next dinner party. They are already the perfect size for snacking before the big meal. In fact, there is something about these mushrooms everyone will love! Almost everyone enjoys crispy bacon and melted cheese.
Stuffed Mushrooms Ideas
Have fun with this recipe. Be creative and use a variety of different fillings or toppings. If you want them to be a little spicier, mix in some red pepper flakes and cayenne pepper.
Garnish them with fresh parsley, the green will really pop and dress up the mushrooms. You can also add a few pieces of red diced tomatoes on top of the mushrooms. This will make them look extra festive.
Low Carb Mushrooms Stuffed With Spinach
These mushrooms are the perfect size to munch on when you need a low-carb snack. Store them in the refrigerator. They will stay fresh for up to 3 days. After 3 days, the texture will change and they won’t be as delicious.
You can also serve them with a salad for a light lunch or dinner. Since they are filled with cheese, they are a hearty side dish. All you need to make it a complete meal is a protein like some chicken breast or a pork chop.
How To Prep Ahead & Store
Since it only takes 15 minutes for these mushrooms to bake, the best way to prep and make them ahead of time is to cut out the mushrooms and pre-make the filling. Then, when you are ready to cook them, just fill the mushrooms and bake them.
You can store them in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. After about 3 days the filling won’t be the same texture and won’t taste as good.
Keto Bacon Stuffed Mushrooms Recipe
Here’s the complete list of ingredients to make the stuffed mushrooms. Exact measurements can be found below within the printable recipe card.
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Servings: 12
Net Carbs: 1 net carb per serving
Ingredients:
Mushrooms
Olive oil
Spinach
Bacon
Onion
Garlic
Pork rind crumbs
Parmesan cheese
Salt and pepper
Instructions:
1. Grease a baking sheet well, and preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
2. Finely mince the stems that were removed from the mushroom caps.
3. Heat the olive oil in a skillet over medium high heat.
4. Add the mushroom stems and onion, cooking them until just beginning to soften.
5. Place the minced garlic into the skillet, and saute for a few seconds before adding the spinach and bacon pieces. Saute until the spinach is wilted.
6. Add the mixture to a mixing bowl with the pork rind crumbs and parmesan cheese. Stir to combine well.
7. Stuff each of the mushrooms with the filling mixture, you can heap the filling up above the mushrooms natural top to get more filling in each one.
8. Bake for 15 minutes.
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Keto Bacon Stuffed Mushrooms Recipe
Equipment
- Baking Sheet
- Skillet
- Mixing Bowl
Ingredients
- 12 mushrooms medium, with stems removed
- 1/2 tbsp olive oil
- 4 ounces spinach raw
- 1/3 cup bacon pieces
- 1/4 cup onion chopped
- 2 tsp garlic minced
- 1/4 cup pork rind crumbs
- 3 tbsp parmesan cheese grated
Instructions
- Grease a baking sheet well, and preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
- Finely mince the stems that were removed from the mushroom caps.
- Heat the olive oil in a skillet over medium-high heat.
- Add the mushroom stems and onion, cooking them until just beginning to soften.
- Place the minced garlic into the skillet, and saute for a few seconds before adding the spinach and bacon pieces. Saute until the spinach is wilted.
- Add the mixture to a mixing bowl with the pork rind crumbs and parmesan cheese. Stir to combine well.
- Stuff each of the mushrooms with the filling mixture, you can heap the filling up above the the mushrooms natural top to get more filling in each one.
- Bake for 15 minutes.
Notes
Net Carbs: 1 Net Carb
The nutritional information for this recipe is calculated as a courtesy and is an approximate only. I cannot guarantee the accuracy of the nutritional information for any recipes on this site.
Healthy Holiday Appetizers
If you enjoy this keto bacon stuffed mushrooms recipe, you will also really enjoy these healthy holiday appetizers. Some of these recipes are so filling you could make them a side dish. Try one of these next:
