Baked mushrooms stuffed with ricotta, cashews and peas in a spicy tomato sauce, served with garlic naan

Ricotta stuffed Mushrooms With Cashew & Peas Recipe

50 Minutes
Serves: 2
Large Portobello mushrooms stuffed with a creamy ricotta, red onion, cashew nut and peas filling, flavoured with chilli and cumin, cooked in an Indian spiced tomato sauce and served with naan

Recipe Ingreds

Ricotta stuffed mushrooms

  • black pepper (to taste)
  • 50 grams cashew nuts
  • 1 whole fresh chilli
  • 0.5 tsp garam masala
  • 4 whole flat mushrooms
  • 50 grams frozen peas
  • 1 whole red onions
  • 100 grams ricotta cheese
  • salt (to taste)
  • 0.5 tsp chilli powder
  • 0.5 tsp turmeric
  • 1 tsp cumin seeds

Spicy tomato sauce

  • 2 leaves bay leaf
  • 15 grams butter
  • 1 stick cinnamon sticks
  • 2 whole cloves
  • 2 cm fresh ginger
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 1 whole onions
  • 2 grams brown sugar
  • 1 tin tinned tomatoes

Naan bread

  • 2 single naan bread

Recipe with pictures Steps

Step 1

  • to make the stuffing
  • roughly chop the cashew nuts
  • peel and finely chop the red onion
  • wash and finely chop the chilli
  • defrost the peas
  • mix the cashew, red onion, chilli, peas, cumin seeds and ricotta in a bowl to make the stuffing

Step 2

  • remove the stalks from the mushrooms
  • place the stuffing inside the mushrooms

Step 3

  • to make the sauce
  • heat the frying pan
  • add the butter
  • add the cloves, bay leaves and cinnamon stick
  • cook till the cloves swell

Step 4

  • peel and chop the onion(s) finely
  • Add the onions to the frying pan and cook until soft
  • peel and grate the ginger add to the onions

Step 5

  • add the mushrooms to the frying pan
  • cook for 5 minutes
  • remove the mushrooms and set a side

Step 6

  • set the oven to 200C 400F or gas mark 6
  • peel and crush the garlic using the garlic crusher or chop finely, add to the onions
  • fry for a minute or two
  • Add the tinned tomatoes to the onions
  • cook for 5 minutes
  • Add the sugar to onion and tomato mix, cook for a minute or two

Step 7

  • return the mushrooms to the frying pan
  • add the turmeric, chilli powder and garam masala to the frying pan
  • season with salt and pepper
  • stir the sauce around the mushrooms
  • cook for 5 mins

Step 8

  • remove the mushrooms from the tomato sauce and place in the casserole dish
  • stir the sauce
  • add the sauce to the casserole dish
  • place in the oven
  • cook for 10 mins

Step 9

  • five minutes before the mushrooms are ready
  • wrap the naan bread in foil and warm in the oven

Step 10

  • remove the mushrooms from the oven
  • serve the ricotta stuffed mushrooms on a serving plate with the spicy tomato sauce

Step 11

  • Remove the bread from the oven
  • add to the serving plate

Step 12

  • if cooking extra for the freezer store the extra mushrooms in a freezable container allow to cool and then place in freezer

Recipe Utensils

  • 1 casserole dish
  • 2 chopping board
  • 1 frying pan
  • 1 Garlic crusher
  • 1 grater
  • 2 large knife
  • 1 small bowl

how to cook Indian ricotta stuffed mushrooms with cashew nuts and peas

Chop the cashew nuts, dice the red onions, finely chopped the chilli, defrost the peas. Mix the nuts, onions, peas, chilli and  cumin seeds with the ricotta. Stuff the mushrooms. Melt the butter with bay leaves, cinnamon and cloves. Add the onions and garlic and to the stuffed mushrooms fry till the mushrooms are golden brown on the base, remove and add the crush garlic and tomatoes cook for a while to blend the flavours then add the mushrooms back to the pan Add the  garam masala, chilli powder and turmeric and poach the mushrooms in the tomato sauce.  The mushrooms are baked in the oven and served with slices of naan bread. 

What to serve stuffed mushrooms with for your evening meal

This dish is ideal for autumn, winter or spring, it makes the perfect stuffed mushroom meal, these delicious mushrooms can be served with,

  • garlic or plain naan bread
  • pilaf rice or plain white or brown rice 

This recipe is perfect for any vegetarian Indian themed dinner party, serve it with rice or naan bread, 

What makes our Indian spiced stuffed mushrooms the best 

Mushrooms are the ideal vegetable to stuff this unusual dish is stuffed with ricotta, peas and cashew nuts, but what makes this dish special is the delicious Indian spiced tomato sauce that the stuffed mushrooms are baked in. Making it the perfect vegetarian main meal

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