To make popcorn at home, we need corn kernels. Be sure to pay attention to the composition, it should not contain anything other than corn and vegetable oil. You can fry on the stovetop or in microwave oven. It is more convenient to make popcorn in a frying pan or in a saucepan, it is easier to notice if it starts to burn.
Now let's look at how to make homemade popcorn:
If your choice is a microwave:
- take a plastic container, pour a little on the bottom sunflower oil and put corn in it. Please note that the grains will greatly increase in volume, you do not need to put more than one row.
- Shake the container to coat the beans with oil. Next, set the power to full, cover the container with corn with a lid and send it to the oven for about two to three minutes. Stay away from the cooking area. At first you will hear frequent, loud pops, over time they will become less frequent, as soon as the interval between them exceeds a few seconds, stop roasting, otherwise the popcorn may burn
If a stove is to be used:
- pour vegetable oil into a frying pan or pan with a transparent, tight lid, heat it up. For a test, throw a grain into the oil, if it opens, then it's time to pour out the rest, then shake and close. As soon as the first pops are heard, remove the pan from the stove, due to the fact that the oil is hot, the grains will open without fire.
- Now it's time for the fun part - flavoring and flavoring. The dish can be made salty, spicy, sweet, citrus flavored or caramel. Choose any option.
Of course the kids love sweet popcorn. It is best to sprinkle it with powdered sugar while it is still hot. You can also use coconut flakes or vanillin.
- To keep the popcorn salty, add fine salt while the dish is still warm. You can diversify the taste with spices, seasonings, black pepper, which is often used together with nutmeg.
- An interesting option is popcorn with citrus flavor. To prepare it, you will need flavoring. To do this, dry the zest of an orange or lemon and grind it with sugar in a coffee grinder. Pour this mixture over hot popcorn.
- If you want to add caramel, you need to melt it in a pan butter, pour sugar and, stirring, cook until formed homogeneous mass. Then pour the caramel over the cooked corn. Available
Recipes for making sweet, salty and caramel popcorn at home.
Popcorn is considered a traditional snack that is used while watching movies. In our country, the delicacy became known not so long ago, but the first mention of popcorn was found in 1492. When Columbus arrived in America, he saw popcorn beads around the neck of the locals.
What kind of corn is homemade popcorn made from?
Not every variety of corn is suitable for making popcorn. This special kind, which contains starch and water droplets. Inside, corn grains are not hard, but quite soft, but the outer shell is strong and glassy. This prevents damage to the grain. When exposed to high temperatures, water droplets inside the grains boil, tearing the shell. The pulp is on the outside.
How to make salty popcorn at home: recipe
There are many cooking options popcorn, it all depends on what kind of dishes you have available. Special devices for making popcorn have been created, which provide an optimal and uniform heating mode.
Popcorn options:
- Hot air machine. The principle of operation of the apparatus is very simple. Hot air is supplied, which affects the grains and they explode. The principle is similar to the operation of a hair dryer.
- Stove boiler. This is a kind of bowl with a handle that needs to be constantly rotated. It makes great popcorn. True, the risk of burning is high.
- Pan. The easiest option. Corn simply warms up in a pan with constant stirring. There is a risk of burning.
- Microwave. Ideal device for making popcorn. Now varieties have been created specifically for cooking in the microwave.
Recipe:
- Let's cook on our own simple recipe in a frying pan
- Pour some oil into the pan and heat it well.
- Add a handful of popcorn and stir constantly
- As the grains heat up, they will explode to form popcorn.
- Sprinkle the finished popcorn fine salt and stir
How to make sweet popcorn at home: recipe
Perfect option low calorie dessert. Many consider popcorn to be a children's dish, and rightly so. He is absolutely harmless.
Recipe:
- Put the pan on the fire and heat it well
- Pour in a handful of corn and cover the container
- It is necessary to constantly shake the dish so that nothing burns.
- When all the grains explode, you can remove the lid and mix
- Sprinkle some on top powdered sugar and shake the corn
How to make caramel popcorn at home: recipe
There is no difficulty in preparing such corn.
Ingredients:
- 250 g sugar
- Spoon of lemon juice
- 2 spoons of water
- Corn
- 40 ml oil
- 1/4 cup corn kernels
- pinch of soda
R recipe:
- Pour the grains into a frying pan with oil and sweat a little over the fire, stirring constantly.
- Cover with a lid and wait until all the grains open.
- Now take it off the heat and get on with the caramel
- In a large bowl, mix the sugar lemon juice and water, put on fire
- Stir constantly until the sugar melts.
- Cook until you get a viscous transparent mass with a characteristic smell of caramel.
- When everything is ready, spread the popcorn on parchment paper by spreading it on a baking sheet
- Pour soda into the caramel, the mass will begin to bubble and hiss, at this very moment pour it over the popcorn
- After hardening, you will get popcorn in a crispy glaze.
How to cook popcorn from corn in the oven, microwave, frying pan, slow cooker: cooking features, tips
A slow cooker is an assistant in the kitchen of modern housewives. It makes popcorn easy to make.
Instructions for cooking in a slow cooker:
- It is necessary to take a dry bowl and pour about 20 ml of oil into it, immediately pour in the corn
- Close the lid and turn on the “baking” mode for 7 minutes
- You need to control the crackling, as soon as it stops, remove the bowl from the device
AND Microwave Instructions:
- Pour 2 tablespoons of oil into a glass or ceramic container and add grains
- Shake the bowl well to distribute the oil in a thin layer.
- Add corn kernels and cover, cook 4 minutes
- Make sure that the grains do not burn, this happens often in the microwave
Instructions for cooking in the oven:
- Pour 20 ml of vegetable oil onto a baking sheet and pour out the popcorn
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and place a baking sheet in it
- Cook in a closed cabinet, turn down the heat
- When the grains stop exploding, remove the popcorn
As you can see, everything is very simple and fast. The cost of a snack is 10 times cheaper than in a cinema.
VIDEO: Popcorn at home
What association comes to mind when you hear the word “cinema”? Most of the time it's popcorn. Indeed, none can do without this dish in combination with sparkling water. You can not only buy popcorn in movie theater bars, but also cook it yourself, because it's quite simple. How to do it and what flavors you can add to popcorn - read all this in this article.
popcorn recipe
What is popcorn? These are corn kernels, blown up from the inside at high temperature, with a variety of additives. To make homemade popcorn, you need a special type of corn kernels - exploding, regular corn doesn't fit here. Such grains can be found on the shelves in supermarkets.
You can cook homemade popcorn using a frying pan, a saucepan on the stove, an oven, a slow cooker and a microwave. For improvement palatability can be added to popcorn, granulated sugar, syrups. How to cook this delicacy yourself? Some recipes are described below.
simple popcorn
Ingredients:
- a couple of tablespoons of vegetable oil;
- a handful of corn kernels;
- salt, granulated sugar or powdered sugar, depending on your preference.
How to cook:
- Pour a little oil into a saucepan, deep saucepan, or frying pan and put on a small fire.
- Heat the vegetable oil, then pour the corn evenly and cover tightly with a lid.
- At first you will hear rare pops, and after half a minute - a real bombardment. This is popping corn.
- As soon as the explosions subside, you can remove the container from the stove, remove the lid and pour it into a cup.
- Sprinkle with sugar or salt.
Cherry popcorn in the oven
What you need:
- a sachet of gelatin;
- corn kernels .
How to cook:
- Pour in the grains, sprinkle with melted butter.
- Dissolve gelatin in water and sprinkle over corn. Close the lid.
- Put in an oven heated to 180 degrees for 4-6 minutes.
Popcorn with caramel
Ingredients:
- grains for popcorn;
- half a glass of granulated sugar, you can take brown;
- 30-50 g butter.
How to cook:
- Cook popcorn in a skillet.
- Melt the butter in a saucepan, sprinkle with sugar. Cook until caramelized.
- Ready syrup caramelize popcorn, watering with a liquid mass and mixing thoroughly. If you add a little cocoa powder to the mixture, then chocolate popcorn will come out.
citrus popcorn
- corn grains;
- oil;
- granulated sugar;
- lemon or orange peel.
How to cook:
- Dry the zest and mix with sugar, grind in a coffee grinder.
- Prepare popcorn in any way.
- Sprinkle sugar zest over cooked grains. The dish will turn out with a citrus aroma and taste, besides it is also colored.
How to make popcorn microwave 
The easiest way to make popcorn is with microwave oven. There are a couple of options here:
- Purchased popcorn in any flavor - these can be found in almost any store. It takes 5 minutes to prepare, you just need to pull the bag out of the box, straighten it, put it in right side up into the microwave. Turn it on and voila - popcorn is ready. But such a product is not made from anything, all sorts of additives, flavors, flavor enhancers, so it is not very good for the health of the human body.
- From simple corn grains - here you have to tinker a bit in order to give flavor to the dish, but it is better and healthier than a store-bought product in a box. You can take a deep plate, pour a little oil, although you can do without it. Pour a few grains, mix with oil, cover on top with a lid or other flat plate. Put in the oven, including the right time. 3-5 minutes of explosions and popcorn is ready. And how to sprinkle or water it - decide for yourself. By the way, you can salt the grains before cooking.
Each of us has bought caramel popcorn more than once in a park or a movie theater, and at the same time, everyone is trying to choose for themselves corns that are covered with caramel crust as much as possible. Sometimes there is a real struggle for them, because they are covered unevenly, some more - others less. And I have been preparing this delicacy at home for a long time, and I always have a lot of caramel, I don’t have to fight)). It turns out both tastier and much cheaper, since special corn grains for popcorn are quite inexpensive. There is nothing complicated in the cooking process: a few minutes - and now the family is crunching caramel popcorn.
On a note:
- both caramel and corn must be cooked at the same time, it is important that both of these components be hot;
- when preparing caramel, mixing is allowed only by rotating the pan, a spoon cannot be used for this, otherwise the crystallization process may begin, which will be irreversible;
- you need very little soda, it should only make the caramel more “loose”, which will help it to be evenly distributed.
Ingredients
- popcorn 1/2 cup
- sugar 1 stack.
- water 50 ml
- butter 50 g
- baking soda on the tip of a knife
How to make caramel popcorn
- I pour the corn into the pan, put it on medium heat and close the lid. I periodically shake the pan to turn the grains, but the lid should remain closed.
Soon, under the influence of temperature, the corn will begin to open, it will “shoot”. If you open the lid, the popcorn will scatter all over the kitchen. When the first “shots” begin, I reduce the fire to a minimum so that the grains do not burn. Over time, the pops will become less and less frequent, and after a few seconds they will stop altogether.
Pour sugar into a saucepan, pour cold water.
I put it on the fire and cook until a light caramel color. Pay attention to the amount of sugar: if you do not like the classic sweet taste of popcorn, reduce the amount of sand to 3/4 or half a glass.
I spread butter.
Then I add baking soda. Here you can already mix with a spoon. The mixture will immediately begin to actively foam, as it should be.
Immediately pour the caramel over the popcorn.
Mix with a spatula to evenly distribute. If the corn itself is still warm, then the caramel will not harden too quickly.
I separate the cooled caramel popcorn with my hands.- Delicious homemade popcorn with caramel is ready.
The origin of popcorn is debated to this day. This product is over 4000 years old. There is a version that the ancient Indians of America discovered corn grains. Another is the origin in Mexico.
Popcorn is low in fat and high in fiber and is rich in vitamins B1 and B2. For 100 grams of product - 400 kcal. By consuming a cup of popcorn without additives every day, a person gets a boost of energy.
Popcorn is sold semi-finished in bags or in the form of special corn. An exploding corn variety is used for manufacturing. It is easy to prepare it at home. And in the pan, in the oven, in the microwave. It can be sweet or salty.
This recipe can be performed by any housewife, if there is a frying pan with a lid on hand. Cooking time - 10 minutes.
Ingredients:
- corn grains - 3 tbsp;
- vegetable oil - 2 tbsp;
- salt - 1 tsp;
- pepper - 1/2 tsp
Cooking method:
- Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan and close the lid.
- When the popcorn is ready, turn off the heat and let it sit.
- Sprinkle with salt and pepper and stir well.
caramel popcorn
This favorite dish kids. Making caramel popcorn in the oven is easy, but you need to practice making caramel. But you will find a great smell and delicious popcorn.
Cooking time - 20 minutes.
Ingredients:
- vegetable oil - to taste;
- corn grains - 1/2 tbsp.;
- sugar - 5 tbsp;
- water - 5 tablespoons of cold water.
Cooking method:
- Preheat oven to 150 degrees.
- Place the popcorn in a large bowl and drizzle with a little vegetable oil. Grease a baking sheet with oil.
- Heat water in a saucepan and add sugar until it boils. Whisking constantly, bring the caramel to an amber color, then set aside.
- Pour caramel over popcorn and mix well.
- Spread the popcorn in an even layer on a baking sheet and place in the oven for 15 minutes.
Colored sweet popcorn
This recipe is suitable for any birthday, and just cheer up. It is easy to prepare and contains few ingredients.
Cooking time - 15 minutes.
Ingredients:
- butter - 2 tbsp;
- corn grains - 4 tbsp;
- powdered sugar - 4 tbsp;
- red food coloring- taste.
Cooking method:
- Mix melted butter and a few drops of food coloring.
- Add powdered sugar.
- Then pour the popcorn into a deep bowl.
- Add mixture to popcorn and stir.
This is the simplest and fast way cooking when there is no time, but you want to eat. Popcorn is prepared without a bag and without oil, so it turns out a dietary dish.
Cooking time - 10 minutes.
Ingredients:
- 1/4 cup corn kernels;
- spices to your taste.
Cooking method:
- Arrange the corn in a row in a flat microwaveable dish.
- Cover the container with corn and send it to the microwave for about 2-3 minutes.
- Once the popcorn is ready, cool it down and add spices to taste.
Bon appetit!
