Herb and Garlic Mushroom Puffs
These delicious mushroom, herb, and cheese puffs are the perfect creamy and flaky bite! Easy to put together, Herb and Garlic Mushroom Puffs make an incredible appetizer with little effort.
Mushrooms are sauteed with shallots, garlic, and thyme, then reduced with white wine and combined with herb and garlic Boursin and parmesan cheeses. Dollop spoonsful of this addictive mixture into puff pastry, and you have an elegant hors d’oeuvres for any gathering.
How long does Herb & Garlic Mushroom Puffs take to make?
Remember to take your puff pastry out of the freezer 2 hours before you need it.
Chopping mushrooms, shallots, garlic, and thyme takes about 10 minutes. The puff pastry takes about 10 minutes to cut into squares and insert into mini muffin cups, docking the pastry with a fork.
Cooking the mushroom mixture takes about 10 minutes. Once the mixture is added to the puff pastry cups, bake the mushrooms for 25 minutes.
Total time (including thawing time): About 3 hours.
Let’s talk about the ingredients for Herb & Garlic Mushroom Puffs
Mushrooms – The star of this recipe! You can use any mushroom you like. For this recipe, I used white button mushrooms. Make sure you slice them and cut them into small pieces, so they cook quickly and you get lots of mushroom in each bite.
Puff Pastry – Frozen puff pastry is the easy button here. Make sure you thaw it at least 2 hours before using. I only needed one sheet of the puff pastry for this recipe, and I cut it into 2” x 2” squares, which fit perfectly into a mini muffin tin with not too much hanging over the edges.
Herb & Garlic Boursin cheese – This cheese melts beautifully and has a wonderful flavour.
Parmesan – Delicious parmesan cheese binds the mixture together and adds a lovely umami saltiness.
Thyme — The perfect herb for mushrooms, in my opinion. I’ve used fresh herbs because I have it available, but you can substitute dried thyme leaves if you need to.
White wine – The mushroom mixture gets reduced with white wine, which helps to deglaze the pan and create a delicious sauce. Any white wine (that you love to drink) will do!
Can I Make Substitutions?
Mushrooms – Use any mushroom you like! Suggestions: Wild mushroom blends, shiitake, portabellos.
Herb & Garlic Boursin – Boursin has many flavours — try another flavour! No Boursin? Try herbed goat cheese or cream cheese.
White wine – Don’t want to use wine? Instead, use chicken stock.
Puff pastry – If you don’t have puff pastry, you can use pre-made appetizer cups like these.
Different ways to serve Herb & Garlic Mushroom Puffs
As an appetizer: Fill puff pastry or appetizer cups with the mushroom mixture, and bake for a delicious bite-sized nibble.
As a dip: Pour the mushroom mixture into an oven-safe dish, bake, and then serve with toasted baguette slices, tortilla chips, or crackers for a delicious hot and cheesy dip.
As a pasta dish: Toss the prepared mushroom mixture with cooked pasta for a quick dinner idea!
The Herb & Garlic Mushroom Puffs Method
I love the elegance of the puff pastry mushroom bites! The only finicky part, I find, is slicing the puff pastry into even squares and forming little cups in the mini muffin tin. Once you do that, you take a fork and dock the bottom of the cups (so they don’t puff up on the bottom).
Cook the mushrooms in a skillet with diced shallots, garlic, and thyme. Then once the mushroom pieces start to release their liquid and start to get smaller in size, add wine and cook until the wine is almost gone.
Remove the mushrooms from the heat and add the herb & garlic Boursin and parmesan, and stir until the cheese is melted and the mixture is completely combined.
Spoon the mixture into the prepared puff pastry. Brush any corners of the pastry squares with beaten egg, then bake for 25 minutes.
After removing the mushroom puffs from the oven, immediately sprinkle with more chopped thyme leaves.
Serve hot or at room temperature.
Herb & Garlic Mushroom Puffs
Equipment
- 3 Mini muffin pans with 12 muffin cups
- pastry brush
- skillet
Ingredients
- 1 package frozen puff pastry thawed at least 2 hours and cut into 2” squares
- 226 g white button mushrooms or 8 oz
- 2 Tablespoons olive oil divided
- 1 shallot finely diced
- 3 cloves garlic smashed or grated
- ¼ cup white wine or chicken stock
- 1 150g Herb & Garlic Boursin cheese 4 oz
- ½ cup parmesan grated
- 1 Handful Fresh thyme leaves removed from stems and chopped, divided
- 1 egg beaten with 1 tsp water, for egg wash
- Salt & pepper
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400°F. Unwrap the puff pastry and using only one sheet of the pastry, cut into 2” squares.
- Prepare mini muffin tins by adding a 2” square of puff pastry to each muffin cup, pressing down gently. Dock the bottom of the cups with a fork to make a few holes so the pastry doesn’t puff up on the bottom. Set aside.
- Slice the mushrooms and cut into small pieces. Finely dice the shallot. Press or grate the garlic cloves. Chop the thyme leaves and divide into 2 equal portions. Grate the parmesan and get the Boursin unwrapped and ready to go.
- In a large skillet over medium heat, add 1 tablespoon of the olive oil. When heated and shimmering, add the shallots, garlic, and cook, stirring for about a minute, or until the garlic starts to become fragrant.
- Add the mushrooms, thyme, the remaining 1 tablespoon of olive oil, and salt & pepper, and cook until the mushrooms begin to release their liquid, about 5 minutes.
- Add the white wine and stir to deglaze the pan and scrape up the delicious bits from the bottom of the pan. Stir until the wine has reduced and almost completely gone.
- Turn off the heat and add the Boursin and parmesan cheeses, and stir until the cheeses have melted into the mushroom mixture.
- Add the mushroom mixture to the prepared muffin tins. Brush the exposed corners of the puff pastry with the beaten egg mixture, and bake for 25 minutes.
- Immediately after removing the mushroom puffs from the oven, sprinkle with the remaining thyme leaves. Let sit for 5-10 minutes, then remove the puffs to a serving platter.
- Can be served hot or at room temperature.
- Makes 36 puffs.
Notes
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