How to cook homemade popcorn in a pan: a step by step recipe
Frying pan for popcorn can be any, as long as it is with a lid, otherwise your grains will "jump out."
The oil should be vegetable and odorless. Roast flakes need small portions, otherwise there will be many undisclosed grains.
Put the pan on medium heat, pour oil into it and heat it.
Pour the corn kernels into the container and immediately close the lid. Do not turn down the fire.
Literally in a minute you will hear how the seeds began to “explode” and turn into white flakes. Without opening the lid, shake the pan a little. Do this a few more times while you hear clicks.
As soon as the "explosions" begin to subside - turn off the fire, open the lid and make sure that all the corn has opened. If you still have whole maize, just remove them, and cool the ready popcorn and pour it into a convenient dish.
That's the whole secret of how to properly fry popcorn in a pan. But you probably noticed that the recipe is not flavoring.
The fact is that someone loves salty flakes, someone is sweet, but someone likes spicy taste. You can make popcorn the way you want it. Next, we will tell you how to properly sweeten and salt it.
Homemade Popcorn Flavoring Additives
Add saltTo get a salty snack - put fine salt directly into the butter. While it will heat up - stir it until complete dissolution. For 100 g of grains 0.5 tsp is enough. salt.
Add sugar
For sweet popcorn, prepare a syrup in advance: in 50 ml. water mix 3 tsp. Sahara. Put the dishes with the syrup on a slow fire and boil it for 5-7 minutes until the sugar is completely dissolved.
When the flakes in the pan unfold and stop cracking strongly - turn down the heat, remove the lid and fill it with a spoon with a spoon. Make more fire again and stir the popcorn for another 5 minutes, stirring constantly.
Spicy Popcorn
You can add any spicy spices to your taste. For this seasoning should be well ground into powder. Sprinkle them with popcorn at the very end of frying, when all the corn has opened. Stir with a spoon, fry the popcorn for a couple of minutes and remove from the heat.
There is nothing difficult about frying popcorn in a frying pan. And by the time it takes only 15-20 minutes. It’s so easy and simple to get a wonderful, wholesome, nourishing snack that it will be nice to eat for the whole family at the next viewing of an action-packed fantastic thriller or a sentimental melodrama. Moreover, cereal can be a hearty quick snack and even breakfast.