Flavored Popcorn Snacks

Serve Nacho Cheese, Cinnamon, Chinese Flavored & Popcorn Snack Mixes

© Deborah Harding

Dec 29, 2008

Popcorn is one of America’s favorite snacks. It goes well by itself in front of the TV watching movies or you can serve it at your next big party. Flavored popcorn is swiftly becoming a good thing to serve guests. Most of the time, and depending on what you add to it, it is healthy and it is tasty as well. Try these flavored popcorn recipes at your next get together or take it to the kid’s baseball game and share.

Popcorn Mix Snack

This is a good mix for kids and adults. It is spicy and your taste buds will love it.

1/3 cup butter

• 1 teaspoon Worcestershire Sauce
• ¼ teaspoon garlic salt
• ¼ teaspoon onion salt
• 6 cups unsalted, no butter popped popcorn
• 1 cu thin straight pretzel sticks
• ½ cup salted, roasted peanuts

1. Preheat oven to 250 degrees.
2. In a saucepan melt butter and stir in Worcestershire, garlic salt, and onion salt.
3. In a large bowl combine popcorn, pretzel sticks, and peanuts.
4. Drizzle butter mixture over top and stir to coat well.
5. Spread on a large cookie sheet and bake 45 minutes stirring with a wooden spoon every 10 minutes.
6. Cool before serving

This snack is sweet and buttery. If you like cinnamon and sugar you will love this.

• 3 quarts unsalted, no butter popped popcorn
• 1 – 6 ½ ounce can salted mixed nuts
• 1 pound light brown sugar
• 1 cup maple syrup (you can use light corn syrup)
• ½ cup butter
• ½ cup water
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1-1/2 teaspoons cinnamon

1. Butter the bottom and sides of a large bowl and pour in popped popcorn and nuts.
2. In a saucepan combine brown sugar, syrup, butter, water, salt and cinnamon. Heat to boiling point stirring until sugar melts. Cook to 290 to 295 degrees on candy thermometer (hard crack stage)
3. Pour syrup in fine stream over popcorn and nuts. Stir until well coated.
4. Spread out on a large buttered surface (cookie sheet) and let cool.
5. Break into small pieces and serve.

This popcorn is very flavorful and will be a favorite.

• 1/3 cup vegetable oil
• 3 dried chilies
• 1 large clove garlic, cut into quarter
• 1 teaspoon cumin seed
• 1/3 cup unpopped popcorn
• 1/3 cup Parmesan Cheese
• 1 teaspoon paprika
• ¼ teaspoon salt

1. In a saucepan place the cooking oil, chilies, garlic and cumin. Cook over low heat for about 3 minutes.
2. Let stand 10 minutes then strain well with coffee filter rubberbanded over a cup or with cheesecloth. This will be the oil in which you pop the popcorn.
3. Take 3 tablespoons of this and put it in a popcorn pan. Add unpopped popcorn and pop.
4. When done pour about 3 more tablespoons of the oil combination over popped popcorn and sprinkle with Parmesan, paprika and salt and toss well.

Want something a little different? This is easy and different it is.

• 8 cups popped popcorn
• 1 – 13 ounce can of chow mein noodles
• Butter flavored cooking spray
• 2 teaspoons low sodium soy sauce

1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
2. In a bowl combine popcorn and chow main noodles.
3. Stir while spraying with butter flavored spray making sure all surfaces are coated.
4. Drizzle with soy sauce and toss again.
5. Place on a cookie sheet and put in oven for 5 minutes.
6. Stir around and cook another 5 minutes.
7. Let cool about 10 minutes before serving.

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