Mushrooms cooked in a creamy garlic butter sauce make the perfect keto-friendly side dish in under 20 minutes. Serve with your favorite meats, including steak & chicken, and enjoy this delicious dish at only 6 net carbs per serving!
What Are Creamy Keto Garlic Mushrooms?
The Creamy Keto Garlic Mushrooms are a savory side dish that you can eat while following the keto diet. Follow this recipe to enhance the taste of mushrooms with flavorful ingredients, including cream cheese, minced garlic, and butter.
It will take you less than 30 minutes to prepare this impeccable side dish that will leave your loved ones satisfied. Recipes like this one make it easy to follow through with the keto diet without consuming too many carbs.
How to Make the Creamy Keto Garlic Mushrooms
If you would like to make Creamy Keto Garlic Mushrooms, gather your ingredients and get started.
You will need to heat a skillet on the stovetop and add your butter into the skillet. Let the butter melt before you add your minced garlic into the skillet.
Allow the garlic to fry in the butter for about a minute. Place your cleaned mushrooms into the skillet with the butter and garlic, sauteeing for up to five minutes. You should keep cooking the mushrooms until they become tender and have the butter sauce all over them.
Once you cook the mushrooms for five minutes, add your heavy cream, cream cheese, pepper, oregano, thyme, and salt into the skillet. Mix the ingredients together for a minute or two.
Place a lid on top of the skillet and allow the mixture to cook until the sauce becomes thick and creamy. As a finishing touch, toss your parmesan cheese into the skillet and simmer it for one more minute. You can garnish the top with fresh parsley before placing the mushrooms into a bowl and serving them.
What to Serve With the Keto Garlic Mushrooms
The Creamy Keto Garlic Mushrooms are great to eat in a bowl for lunch. However, you might want to serve them as a side dish when preparing keto-friendly meals for your family to enjoy.
These mushrooms will taste great when served with spaghetti squash, zucchini noodles, and even cauliflower rice. They go great with different cuts of steak, meatloaf, baked chicken, and even grilled ribs. You can stay on track with the keto diet while eating these mushrooms with some of your other favorite keto-friendly foods.
How to Store Your Garlic Mushrooms to Keep Them Fresh
If you have any mushrooms left after preparing them and eating them, put the mushrooms in a plastic food storage bag or food storage container with an airtight lid. Put the mushrooms in the refrigerator to keep them fresh.
The Creamy Keto Garlic Mushrooms will stay good for up to five days in the refrigerator. You can freeze the mushrooms if you need to save them for more than five days. Put them in a freezer bag, remove any excess air, and seal the bag shut. The mushrooms will stay good for as long as six months when frozen.
Creamy Garlic Mushrooms {Keto/ Low-Carb}
Ingredients
- 16 oz baby Bella mushrooms, cleaned and trimmed
- 2 tbsp unsalted butter
- 2 tbsp garlic, minced
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 2 tbsp cream cheese
- 1/4 cup parmesan cheese
- 1/2 tsp dried oregano
- 1/2 tsp dried thyme
- 1/2 tsp ground pepper
- salt to taste
- parsely, to garnish, optional
Instructions
- Heat a large skillet; add butter on a medium heat.
- Once the butter has melted add the minced garlic and fry them for 1 minute until a nice aroma comes.
- Add the cleaned mushrooms and saute for 4-5 minutes until tender and coated with butter sauce.
- Stir in the heavy cream, cream cheese, salt, pepper, dried oregano and thyme. Close with lid and cook for 5 minutes until the sauce thickens.
- Finally add the parmesan cheese and simmer the sauce for a minute.
- Add some chopped fresh parsley and transfer the creamy garlic mushrooms to a bowl and serve.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
We LOVED this recipe . It was really easy and made a nice presentation.
As a matter of fact tonight I am making it again to serve with lemon garlic chicken. Do you think we like lemon. You betcha ,