Butter mushrooms in creamy garlic sauce use simple ingredients to make one of the most delicious recipes ever.
This rich sauce is full of all life’s best ingredients – butter, heavy whipping cream, and mushrooms and is an addictive and easy side dish ready in 15 quick minutes.
Ingredients
- Bacon – The bacon in this dish is twofold. It first allows for a crispy topping and provides grease versus olive oil. The bacon grease gives excellent flavor and helps saute the garlic and white mushroom.
- Minced garlic – Garlic is measured in your heart, so feel free to include even more if you like! Another way to bring up the incredible garlic taste is to learn how to roast garlic.
- Butter – Cannot have creamy sauce with rich butter without butter! We use unsalted butter in our dish.
- Fresh mushrooms – It is essential to clean mushrooms before adding them to the cast iron pan.
- Seasonings: paprika, garlic powder, cayenne pepper, kosher salt, and black pepper.
- Heavy whipping cream – The super garlic creamy mushroom sauce needs no substitution of heavy cream. In the case of this recipe, milk or half and half will not make a quality sauce.
- Topping ideas: Fresh herbs like chopped fresh parsley or thyme and shredded Parmesan cheese.
How to make Butter Mushrooms in Creamy Garlic Sauce
- Add uncooked bacon to a skillet and cook until crispy. While there are many other ways to cook bacon, like air-fried bacon and bacon in the oven, in this case, keep it in the skillet. Remove pan from heat and drain on paper towels. Keep bacon grease in the pan. Crumble the bacon when cool.
- Add minced garlic to the bacon grease and cook for 2 minutes until browned and fragrant.
- Add butter, white button mushrooms, paprika, garlic powder, and cayenne pepper.
- Season the entire skillet with salt and pepper.
- Heat to medium heat for 5-7 minutes, occasionally stirring until mushrooms are tender. Mushrooms will also cook and change to a golden brown color in this process.
- Once mushrooms are done cooking, stir in heavy whipping cream and heat for 2 minutes until hot.
- Top the entire mushroom side dish with chopped fresh parsley and crumbled bacon. Serve butter mushrooms immediately.
Stand-alone Butter Sauce
And while this creamy garlic sauce makes these mushrooms the best deep flavored side dish ever, it’s also fantastic when the mushrooms are replaced with mussels, shrimp, or even gnocchi!
Best way to clean mushrooms.
You may be asking yourself if you have to clean mushrooms. The answer is yes! Mushrooms are ground-bearing vegetables and typically come from the store with dirt. While the creamy butter sauce will likely cover all the dirt, the idea of it makes me want to clean the mushrooms well.
Sometimes rinsing does work, but I often find that dirt can stick to the mushroom’s outer shell when it comes to whole mushrooms. If this is the case for you, use a damp paper towel (or damn cloth) to remove any dirt.
What kind of mushrooms work well?
The easiest creamiest mushrooms are white button mushrooms. They are usually white (called button) or brown mushrooms, called cremini.
Other mushroom options saute just fine like wild mushrooms, shitake (great for soups), or portobello, which are super rich and go perfect with a creamy garlic butter sauce.
Best Way to Caramelize Uncooked Mushrooms.
As always, when cooking any vegetable in a group, the mushrooms need to be similar in size. If there is one super large one in the pack and one super small one, they can cook and caramelize at different rates.
Do not over stir mushrooms. When it comes to browning up mushrooms, they need to sit on the pan for a bit to get all sides. The entire cooking and sauteing a mushroom takes 5-7 minutes of cook time, so stir only every few minutes to cook all sides evenly.
What to serve with Creamy Garlic Mushrooms.
Mushrooms are most commonly served with steak and make a great addition to a great chicken recipe, a pork chop, or eating alone in a bowl or on crusty bread.
A true mushroom lover will know exactly what to do with all this fantastic flavor!
Pair mushrooms with a bacon chicken breast recipe, Jalapeno Stuffed Chicken, Air Fried Chicken, Parmesan Chicken, and this awesome slow cooker chicken recipe.
This mushroom side dish also works fantastic as a garlic mushroom tapas!
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- Super savory mushroom casserole and crunchy panko topping.
- Cooking mushrooms on a grill has never been easier.
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Butter Mushrooms in Creamy Garlic Sauce
Equipment
- cast iron pan
Ingredients
- 5 slices bacon
- 2 tbsp minced garlic
- 3 tbsp unsalted butter
- 1 pound freshly cleaned mushrooms - suggested: Whole Button Mushrooms
- ½ tsp paprika
- ½ tsp garlic powder
- ½ tsp cayenne pepper
- ½ cup heavy whipping cream
- salt and pepper
- parsley - fresh, for topping
Instructions
- Add uncooked bacon to a skillet and cook until crispy. Remove pan from heat and drain on paper towels. Keep bacon grease in the pan.
- Add minced garlic to the bacon grease and cook for 2 minutes until browned and fragrant.
- Add butter, white button mushrooms, paprika, garlic powder, and cayenne pepper.
- Season the entire skillet with salt and pepper. Heat to medium heat for 5-7 minutes, occasionally stirring until mushrooms are tender. Mushrooms will also cook and change to a golden brown color in this process.
- Once mushrooms are done cooking, stir in heavy whipping cream and heat for 2 minutes until hot.
- Crumble the bacon when cool.
- Top the entire mushroom side dish with chopped fresh parsley and crumbled bacon. Serve butter mushrooms immediately
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