Recipes · inspired by the rooftop mushroom and cheese moment in Ratatouille
Toasty Mushroom and Cheese Skewers
Mushrooms browned in butter with a little thyme, threaded on skewers and topped with melty cheese.
- Ready in
- 13 min
- Ingredients
- 5
- Makes
- 4 skewers
- Level
- easy
Ratatouille is the 2007 Disney·Pixar movie about a rat who dreams of being a chef in Paris; its ride, Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure, is at Epcot’s France pavilion and Disneyland Paris. This is our own quick, family-friendly version of a dish from the movie or the pavilion, not an official recipe.
One of our favorite moments in the movie involves a mushroom, a piece of cheese and a very surprising way of toasting them. A frying pan is much safer, and just as tasty.
Make it a learning moment: mushrooms aren’t plants. They’re fungi, a whole separate group of living things, more closely related to animals than to plants.
Ingredients
Steps
Kids a child can do this step Grown-up hot, sharp or tricky
- Kids Wipe the mushrooms clean with a damp paper towel.
- Grown-up Melt the butter in a pan over medium heat and cook the mushrooms with the thyme and salt, stirring now and then, 6 to 7 minutes, until browned.
- Grown-up Let them cool for a minute, then thread them onto the skewers.
- Grown-up Lay a piece of cheese over each skewer and microwave 15 seconds, or put the lid on the pan for a minute, to melt it.
