Who doesn't love caramel popcorn? If you don't, your weird.
Since it has been so rainy and cold this spring (it is may and I am still wearing scarves and sweaters) I wanted to offer up this recipe that is so warm and perfect. It not only is a great winter treat, but a summer one as well. Winter treat since it is a nice sugary comfort food type. Summer because it reminds me of carnivals and who doesn't love carnivals? If you don't, your weird.
So, here it goes.
Have you ever pan popped popcorn? If you haven't it is sooooo easy. Start with a frying pan (that has a lid) and coat the bottom with canola or vegetable oil. Just coat it, there shouldn't be an inch of oil in there, just enough to coat the bottom. Need me to say that again? Believe me, I have done this with too much oil before. Oily popcorn is not good.
Turn the heat on medium and heat the oil up. Once the oil starts "moving" or gets warm, pour in 1/3 cup of popcorn kernels and place the lid on. Just so you know, 1/3 cup is perfect for my pan. Yours may be different. You don't want the kernels sitting on top of each other, also you don't want them crowded. So have some open space in the pan.
Don't go away!! you have to stand there and be diligent cause when it starts popping, you need to listen and shake.
It will start popping slow, then speed up. Once it starts slowing down again, shimmy the pan back and forth to keep it moving and give the unpopped kernels a chance to pop.
Once it really starts slowing down (only a pop here and there) turn the heat off. Take the lid off and Voila! Watch out for those stray pops. The kids think those are fun.
Then pour the popcorn in a big bowl and sprinkle with a bit of salt. At this point, if you don't want caramel on your popcorn, just melt butter, mix with a little bit of olive oil and pour over the popcorn. Then sprinkle with parmesan cheese. oh, yum...
But we are adding salty caramel. You will need 1/2 cup packed brown sugar, and 1/2 a cup of butter. 1 teaspoon salt.
In a saucepan, place the brown sugar and butter. (if you change the amount, just make sure you have equal parts of each)
Place over medium heat and wisk together.
the butter will stay separated from the brown sugar for a bit, just keep wisking, it will take a bit of time for them become friends.
Once you see that the mixture is pulling away from the pan, it is almost done.
Keep wisking till you can pull the wisk up and you get a nice stream of yumminess.
It will look like this:
Then wisk in a teaspoon of salt and pour over your popcorn.
Mix with a big spoon to cover all the popcorn.
serve up
and enjoy.
I know it doesn't look like he in enjoying it, but Krischan is an intense eater. All his attention is on his food. He even closes his eyes when he takes a bite. I love making this for him as an after school snack or on a sat afternoon.
Since it has been so rainy and cold this spring (it is may and I am still wearing scarves and sweaters) I wanted to offer up this recipe that is so warm and perfect. It not only is a great winter treat, but a summer one as well. Winter treat since it is a nice sugary comfort food type. Summer because it reminds me of carnivals and who doesn't love carnivals? If you don't, your weird.
So, here it goes.
Have you ever pan popped popcorn? If you haven't it is sooooo easy. Start with a frying pan (that has a lid) and coat the bottom with canola or vegetable oil. Just coat it, there shouldn't be an inch of oil in there, just enough to coat the bottom. Need me to say that again? Believe me, I have done this with too much oil before. Oily popcorn is not good.
Turn the heat on medium and heat the oil up. Once the oil starts "moving" or gets warm, pour in 1/3 cup of popcorn kernels and place the lid on. Just so you know, 1/3 cup is perfect for my pan. Yours may be different. You don't want the kernels sitting on top of each other, also you don't want them crowded. So have some open space in the pan.
Don't go away!! you have to stand there and be diligent cause when it starts popping, you need to listen and shake.
It will start popping slow, then speed up. Once it starts slowing down again, shimmy the pan back and forth to keep it moving and give the unpopped kernels a chance to pop.
Once it really starts slowing down (only a pop here and there) turn the heat off. Take the lid off and Voila! Watch out for those stray pops. The kids think those are fun.
Then pour the popcorn in a big bowl and sprinkle with a bit of salt. At this point, if you don't want caramel on your popcorn, just melt butter, mix with a little bit of olive oil and pour over the popcorn. Then sprinkle with parmesan cheese. oh, yum...
But we are adding salty caramel. You will need 1/2 cup packed brown sugar, and 1/2 a cup of butter. 1 teaspoon salt.
In a saucepan, place the brown sugar and butter. (if you change the amount, just make sure you have equal parts of each)
Place over medium heat and wisk together.
the butter will stay separated from the brown sugar for a bit, just keep wisking, it will take a bit of time for them become friends.
Once you see that the mixture is pulling away from the pan, it is almost done.
Keep wisking till you can pull the wisk up and you get a nice stream of yumminess.
It will look like this:
Then wisk in a teaspoon of salt and pour over your popcorn.
Mix with a big spoon to cover all the popcorn.
serve up
and enjoy.
I know it doesn't look like he in enjoying it, but Krischan is an intense eater. All his attention is on his food. He even closes his eyes when he takes a bite. I love making this for him as an after school snack or on a sat afternoon.
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