MUSHROOM SKULLS
Fresh mushrooms easily transformed to look like spooky skulls. Here’s a ghoulishly great addition to your Halloween board
Ingredients
- 8 ounces button mushroom for skulls, see directions below
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- ¼ cup shallots or red onion thinly sliced
- 2 cloves garlic thinly sliced
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
To make mushroom skulls
- Clean your mushrooms.
- To create two skull faces on opposite sides of each mushroom, use a straw to form the eyeholes.
- Use a paring knife to cut nose holes and to slice down the stem to create teeth.
- Cut mushroom in half creating two skull halves.
To sauté the mushrooms,
- In a sauté pan heat butter and oil.
- Add shallot and garlic and cook until fragrant.
- Add the mushrooms, gently tossing to coat with the butter and oil combo.
- Sauté the mushrooms until warmed through and softened.
- Season to taste with salt and pepper.
- Serve with any accumulated juices, warm, room temperature, or cold.