Garlicky Mushroom Melt
Deeply browned mushrooms and melted cheese on toast — the open-faced answer to a gray day.
Ingredients
- 300 g Mushroom
- 2 cloves Garlic
- 2 slices Country bread
- 100 g Melting cheese
- 25 g Butter
- ½ tsp Salt
- 1 tsp Thyme (optional)
- ½ tsp Black pepper (optional)
Method
- Slice the mushrooms thick.
- Mince the garlic.
- Brown the mushrooms in the butter in a skillet over high heat without crowding until deeply golden, about 7 minutes.
- Add the garlic, thyme, salt, and pepper to the mushrooms for the last minute of cooking.
- While the mushrooms brown, toast the country bread slices until crisp.
- Top the toasts with the garlicky mushrooms, then the sliced cheese.
- Grill the topped toasts under a hot broiler until the cheese is molten and spotted brown, about 4 minutes.
- Serve the melts open-faced with a knife and fork.
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About Garlicky Mushroom Melt
The garlicky mushroom melt is an open-faced toast in the American diner and cafe tradition, the vegetarian cousin of a patty melt, built for a gray afternoon when you want something warm and savoury without much effort. Sliced mushrooms are browned hard in butter without crowding the pan until they turn deeply golden, then finished with garlic, thyme, salt, and pepper, and piled on crisp toasted country bread under a blanket of melting cheese. The single most important move is that hard, uncrowded sear: mushrooms shed a lot of water, and only by driving it off over high heat do they concentrate into something meaty and browned rather than steamed and gray.
Run under a hot broiler until the cheese goes molten and spotted, the finished melt is rich and deeply umami, the earthy mushrooms and toasted garlic offset by the crisp bread and the stretch of bubbling cheese. It's a knife-and-fork toast rather than a hand-held one, best eaten immediately while the cheese is still soft. As a quick lunch or light dinner for two it comes together in about twenty minutes from a short list of staples. A green salad alongside is all it needs to round out the plate.
Garlicky Mushroom Melt: frequently asked questions
How many calories are in Garlicky Mushroom Melt?
A serving has about 364 calories — 19.5g protein, 23.9g carbs, 22.5g fat, 2.9g fiber. Figures are estimated from the ingredient amounts and will shift with your portions and brands.
Is Garlicky Mushroom Melt gluten-free?
As written, no — it contains Country bread. You'd need a certified gluten-free swap for that ingredient to make it gluten-free.
Is Garlicky Mushroom Melt dairy-free?
Not as written — it uses Butter. Swapping it for a plant-based alternative makes it dairy-free.
Do I need every ingredient to make Garlicky Mushroom Melt?
The core ingredients are essential, but you can leave out thyme, black pepper — they're optional and mainly there for extra flavor or finish.
How many servings does Garlicky Mushroom Melt make?
This recipe makes 2 servings. In the app you can scale it up or down and the ingredient amounts adjust automatically.