Popcorn is a popular treat for both snacking and “creating a movie theater atmosphere” at home for both adults and children. For cooking popcorn, two points are important: only popcorn, as it contains a lot of water and opens when frying, and a deep frying pan with a lid. There are different options for flavoring additives for popcorn - salt, caramel, butter, and everyone chooses according to their preference.
How to make popcorn from corn in a frying pan?
For popcorn, you need a special variety of corn - maize, because other varieties do not have a hard shell and moisture, and when heated, “white flowers” will not be obtained. The pan for homemade popcorn must be tall and have a lid, otherwise the balls will jump out of it. According to this recipe, we fry popcorn in vegetable oil and butter with added sugar.
- Corn grains 85 (grams)
- Vegetable oil 3 (tablespoons)
- Butter 1 (tablespoons)
- Granulated sugar taste
- Salt taste
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How to make popcorn at home? Place the frying pan on high heat, pour vegetable oil into it and heat it up.The optimal temperature for frying popcorn is 205-240°C, and if the oil starts to smoke, it means it is overheated. You can add a pinch of salt to the oil. -
Place 3-4 corn kernels in hot oil and cover the pan with a lid. After the grains begin to jump, pour all the corn into the pan in an even layer, cover with a lid, remove from heat and count exactly 30 seconds. -
Place the pan on high heat again. The popcorn will start jumping and shooting almost simultaneously. With the lid slightly open to remove steam, shake the frying pan several times over the burner with left and right movements until all the grains become popcorn and the interval between bouncing is three seconds. -
After the beans stop bouncing, remove the lid and immediately pour the hot popcorn into a dry bowl. -
Then melt a tablespoon of butter in this hot frying pan and evenly coat the hot popcorn with it. The oil can be heated until lightly browned, which will add a rich flavor to the popcorn. -
Sprinkle the cooked popcorn with salt, sugar, seasonings or cheese and serve. Bon appetit!
How to cook sweet popcorn with sugar in a frying pan?
Popcorn is prepared with various fillings, and the favorite for both children and adults is invariably popcorn with sugar, and the sweetness is adjusted to taste. For this delicacy, the right corn kernels and the right utensils are selected - a frying pan with a heavy lid and high sides.
Cooking time: 20 minutes.
Cooking time: 5 minutes.
Servings: 4.
Ingredients:
- Corn grains - ½ tbsp.
- Butter – 1/3 tbsp.
- Vegetable oil – 3 tbsp.
- Granulated sugar – ¼ tbsp.
- Additional sugar - 2 tbsp.
Cooking process:
Step 1. Pour 3 tbsp into the frying pan selected for cooking. spoons of vegetable oil and heat it well. We put a couple of corn kernels in the oil and when they pop, you can start frying the popcorn.
Step 2. Remove the frying pan from the stove and pour all the grains into it. After 30 seconds, put the pan back on high heat and close the lid, which allows the grains to burst at the same time.
Step 3. During frying, shake the pan a little every 10 seconds, lift it above the burner, and open the lid slightly to remove steam.
Step 4. After the first corn kernels begin to open with a characteristic pop, pour sugar into them and immediately mix well with a wooden spatula. After slowing down this process (the interval between popping grains will be in 2-3 seconds), pour the popcorn into a dry bowl.
Step 5. In another frying pan or microwave, melt the butter and mix it with two tablespoons of sugar.
Step 6. To make this sweet mass thicker, you can add corn syrup instead of sugar.
Step 7. Sprinkle the popcorn with a little salt, which will mask the bitterness of the burnt sugar and grains. Then pour a mixture of butter and sugar over it, mix well, cool until the popcorn becomes crispy and serve. Bon appetit!
Quick and Easy Skillet Salted Popcorn Recipe
Salted popcorn is considered a classic in this crunchy corn treat.
In this recipe, we complement the taste of salted popcorn with coriander and garlic. To obtain a fluffy grain structure, we select corn varieties special for popcorn, which contain a lot of starch and open into flowers when fried. Fry popcorn in a deep frying pan with a lid.
Cooking time: 20 minutes.
Cooking time: 5 minutes.
Servings: 4.
Ingredients:
- Corn grains - ½ tbsp.
- Vegetable oil – 3 tbsp.
For refueling:
- Ground coriander – 1 tsp.
- Garlic – 1 head.
- Extra salt – 1 tsp.
- Vegetable oil – 50 ml.
Cooking process:
Step 1. Immediately prepare the selected corn and vegetable oil in the quantities indicated in the recipe. To ensure that the corn opens well, place it in the freezer for 40 minutes.
Step 2. Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan and place cold corn kernels in an even layer. Place the frying pan over medium heat and cover with a lid. After a few minutes, the grains will begin to burst with a characteristic pop and become real popcorn.
Step 3. After the popping stops, wait 30 seconds and turn off the heat. Place the prepared beautiful popcorn into a dry bowl.
Step 4. Then take the ingredients to enrich the taste of the delicacy: garlic, coriander, salt and vegetable oil.
Step 5. Peel the garlic cloves and cut into slices.
Step 6. Fry them until golden brown in hot vegetable oil.
Step 7. Remove the fried garlic from the pan with a slotted spoon. You can save it for seasoning other dishes, but for popcorn you only need garlic flavored oil.
Step 8. Sprinkle the cooked popcorn evenly with salt, ground coriander and pour over the aromatic oil. Mix the popcorn with these additives well, cool and serve. Bon appetit!
Homemade popcorn with caramel
Homemade popcorn and real caramel - this combination will make you a fan of caramel popcorn, and preparing this crispy, airy delicacy at home using natural products is not difficult at all.We prepare caramel from butter and sugar and add soda for its loose texture. Fry popcorn in a frying pan according to the usual rules.
Cooking time: 20 minutes.
Cooking time: 5 minutes.
Servings: 5.
Ingredients:
- Corn grains – 100 gr.
- Sugar – 200 gr.
- Salt – 1 tsp.
- Soda – ½ tsp.
- Butter – 100 gr.
- Vegetable oil – 50 ml.
- Water – 100 ml.
Cooking process:
Step 1. First, prepare the popcorn ingredients according to the recipe.
Step 2. Pour vegetable oil into a saucepan with thick walls and a volume of at least 5 liters for easy mixing, add 50 grams of butter and melt over high heat. Pour the corn kernels into the hot oil and mix them well with the oil.
Step 3. Reduce heat to medium, cover the pan with a lid and, shaking occasionally, cook the popcorn until all the kernels are completely popped. When the intervals between the characteristic clicks of the grains become more than 5 seconds, turn off the fire, but do not open the lid. You will get beautiful popcorn and in large quantities.
Step 4: While the popcorn is cooling, make the caramel in another pan. Pour water into it and dissolve the required amount of sugar and salt over medium heat.
Step 5. When this syrup turns yellow, add the rest of the butter, stir and cook the caramel until light brown. Then add soda to it, stir and turn off the heat.
Step 6. Pour the hot caramel evenly over the cooked popcorn and mix well. Then spread it evenly and in one layer on a silicone mat or parchment so that you don’t get one lump, cool for 20 minutes and can serve. Bon appetit!
Delicious buckwheat popcorn in a frying pan
Popcorn made from buckwheat turns out to be more tasty than that made from other grains, although it looks unusual, because buckwheat cereal balls do not come out. It is simply eaten as a healthy and nutritious food or added to snacks and salads. To prepare this popcorn in a frying pan, buckwheat flakes are taken, which is easier and faster than the process of cooking from whole grains.
Cooking time: 15 minutes.
Cooking time: 5 minutes.
Servings: 3.
Ingredients:
- Buckwheat flakes – ½ tbsp.
- Vegetable oil – ½ tbsp.
- Salt - to taste.
- Nutritional yeast – 1 tbsp.
Cooking process:
Step 1. First of all, you need to prepare the ingredients for making buckwheat popcorn in the quantities specified in the recipe.
Step 2. Pour half a glass of vegetable oil into a deep, thick-walled frying pan and heat it well.
Step 3. Drop buckwheat flakes into hot oil in small portions and quickly fry them for 5 seconds. Using a slotted spoon, transfer the fried flakes to a paper towel to remove excess oil.
Step 4. Then, while still warm, sprinkle the buckwheat popcorn with salt and nutritional yeast to your taste, which have high nutritional value and will give the popcorn a nutty and cheesy taste.
Step 5. Pour into a separate bowl, mix gently and cool completely.
Step 6. Serve the prepared buckwheat popcorn as a separate dish or use it for another snack or salad. Bon appetit!
Homemade popcorn with cheese
Homemade popcorn, supplemented with cheese, has an interesting and piquant taste and will allow you to diversify this delicacy. You can cook popcorn according to the usual rules, in a deep frying pan or in a wok.In this recipe, we make cheesy popcorn in the microwave. Only hard varieties of cheese are used (Parmesan, cheddar, Pecorino Romano) so that it is evenly distributed and does not clump together.
Cooking time: 5 minutes.
Cooking time: 5 minutes.
Servings: 2.
Ingredients:
- Microwave popcorn – 100 gr.
- Grated Cheddar cheese – 30 gr.
- Melted butter – 6 tbsp.
Cooking process:
Step 1. Prepare the ingredients for cheese popcorn immediately and in the required quantity, according to the recipe.
Step 2. Microwave one package of popcorn as directed in the included instructions.
Step 3: Hot popped popcorn, pour into any serving bowl.
Step 4: Melt the butter in the microwave in 2-3 20-second batches, stirring until it separates into fat and water, as water will break up the fluffy texture of the popcorn.
Step 5: Sprinkle the hot popcorn evenly with crushed cheese and then drizzle with melted butter. Gently mix these ingredients and serve after cooling. Bon appetit!
How to cook popcorn in a frying pan with honey?
Honey popcorn is a variation of sweet popcorn, and in addition to honey, it is supplemented with aromatic spices. This recipe asks you to add chili powder and curry powder. The amount of honey is added according to personal taste. To ensure good popping of the corn kernels, it is important to follow the proportion of oil and kernels.
Cooking time: 20 minutes.
Cooking time: 5 minutes.
Servings: 2.
Ingredients:
- Corn for popcorn - ¼ tbsp.
- Vegetable oil – 2 tbsp.
- Sugar – 2 tbsp.
- Curry (powder) – 1 tsp.
- Chili (powder) – 1 pinch.
- Salt – 1 pinch.
- Honey - to taste.
Cooking process:
Step 1.First, prepare all the ingredients for making popcorn in the quantities specified in the recipe.
Step 2. In a separate bowl, mix dry ingredients: curry powder, chili, salt and sugar.
Step 3. Pour corn kernels special for popcorn into a deep frying pan.
Step 4. Pour the dry mixture into them, pour two tablespoons of vegetable oil and shake the frying pan to mix everything.
Step 5. Place the frying pan on medium heat and cover with a lid. After the characteristic pops appear from the opening of the grains, shake the pan periodically. When the pops become rare, remove the pan from the heat without opening the lid.
Step 6. After 30 seconds, open the lid. The corn kernels should open well, increase in volume and acquire an airy texture.
Step 7. Transfer the popcorn to a separate dry bowl.
Step 8. Then pour liquid honey over it to your taste and mix well. Serve the honey-spiced popcorn hot. Bon appetit!
