Mushroom and Goat’s Cheese Burgers

Name: Mushroom and Goat’s Cheese Burgers
Yield: Makes 6
Ingredients: sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; good-quality olive oil; a few basil stalks (optional); 1 x 500 g log goat’s cheese (creamy, not too crumbly); 1 x 225 g jar piquillo peppers; 12 large Portobello mushrooms

Preparation info

Makes
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

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By Adam Byatt

Published 2010

About

These burgers are a great vegetarian barbecue alternative, with Portobello mushrooms acting as the ‘bap’, creamy goat’s cheese as the ‘burger’ and sweet piquillo peppers as the ‘relish’. A plate of these should please most of your guests, not just the vegetarian ones!

Ingredients

12 large Portobello mushrooms
good-quality olive oil
a few basil stalks (optional)
sea salt and freshly

Burger
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

Preparation

Peel the mushrooms and remove the stalks and some of the black gills underneath. Marinate the mushrooms for a few minutes in a splash of olive oil, the basil stalks and plenty of salt and pepper. Cut the cheese into 6 slices. Drain the peppers.

Place the mushrooms on the grid of a hot barbecue and