Photo: Spiced Kettle Corn Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1/2 cup popcorn kernels (unpopped)
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon fine salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon cayenne
Directions
Have a hot pad or kitchen towel and a paper grocery bag or large baking sheet handy. Heat the vegetable oil in a large heavy-bottomed Dutch oven or pan over medium heat. Place a couple of kernels of popcorn in the pan. When the kernels pop, proceed to the next step.
Once the oil is hot enough, add the butter and stir quickly into the oil to prevent burning. Immediately add the popcorn and stir (the butter may not be completely melted). Add the sugar right away and stir again. Cover the pan, and start shaking it gently back and forth on the burner, using a hot pad or kitchen towel to protect your hands. Keep shaking as the popcorn pops.
Once you start hearing 1 or 2 seconds of quiet between the pops, turn the heat off immediately. This means the popcorn is mostly popped. (Be careful not to overcook, as the popcorn can easily burn.) Pour the popcorn into the paper bag or onto the baking sheet and sprinkle with salt, cinnamon, and cayenne. Allow to cool a few minutes before placing in a bowl. (Careful, the hot sugar makes the popcorn extremely hot!)
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By freeflight28
on April 14, 2013
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SUPER delicious!! I have a hot air popper though, so we just put the sauce mix over the popcorn. We had to use more sauce than stated, but the blend was really good.
By heather.fortnum
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on April 12, 2013
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WAY TOO SALTY! Inedible. No one else has mentioned this, but I measured everything before beginning. Did everyone else use one teaspoon salt, as the recipe calls for? My popcorn did not burn, though. If I were to try making this again, I would increase the amount of sugar and only add salt to taste.
By rjabja
on April 11, 2013
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too spicy for me...I would NEVER USE GROCERY BAGS FOR FRESH FOODS. When I lived down south we were told that ALL grocery bags ( paper and plastic are treated with chemicals to deter rodents and mosty roaches from taking up residence in them, which you would carry to your home.. AND have you thought of all the dirty canned goods etc you put in those bags ( have you ever seen some of thse people who stock shelves?. and now you want me to take good food and contaminate it all so i can save washing a bowl?????.what is wrong with using a big tupperware or rubbermaid bowl to stir thing in? this is one short cut i would never do. UGH! one star for the way it was prepared.
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