Sunday, May 18, 2008

Microwave Popcorn

You don't need to buy ready made and already-flavored-with-chemicals microwave popcorn. Here's a quick and easy way to do it yourself.

Put approximately 1/4 to 1/3 cup popcorn in a small brown paper bag. The size you'd pack a lunch in. Narrowly fold the top two or three times pressing firmly so bag will stay closed.

Lay bag on its side in microwave and push the button for popcorn (many microwaves have this preset) or pop on HIGH until you don't hear much popping.

Add your own melted butter and salt...or parmesan cheese or nutritional yeast.

2 comments:

Alison said...

I haven't been able to find nutritional yeast here yet. :-(
We make popcorn on the stovetop with a bit of oil. It might take a few tries to get to the point where it doesn't burn and there are not too many leftover kernels. Involves some shaking but good for the arms!

Nicole said...

also (I havent tried this yet - but sounds interesting) since its hard to get the nutritional yeast to stick to the popcorn without adding butter, you can apparently try the following - put equal parts sesame seeds (unhulled best), flax seeds and newt into a coffee grinder & grind to a powder. then you can put this in a shaker and use on popcorn (or other foods) Nutritionally, I think it adds a lot of calcium, b-12 and omega-3 fatty acids. Will let you know how it works out if I try it.