How to make popcorn

What association comes to mind when the word "cinema"? Most often it is popcorn. And the truth is none new movie not dispenses with this dish in combination with soda water. Popcorn can not only be purchased in cinema bars, but also prepared by yourself, because it is quite simple. How to do this and what flavors you can give popcorn - read all this in this article.

Popcorn recipe

What is popcorn? These are corn kernels, exploded from the inside at high temperatures, with various additives. To make homemade popcorn, you need a special kind of corn kernels - explosive, regular corn is not suitable here. These grains can be found on supermarket shelves.

You can cook homemade popcorn using a frying pan, a saucepan on the stove, an oven, a multicooker and microwave ovens... Can be added to popcorn to improve taste spice, granulated sugar, cheese, syrups. How to prepare this delicacy yourself? Some of the recipes are described below.

Simple popcorn

Ingredients:

• a couple of spoons of vegetable oil;
• a handful of corn kernels;
• salt, granulated sugar or powdered, depending on your preference.

How to cook:

1. Pour a little oil into a saucepan, deep saucepan, or frying pan and put on low heat.
2. Heat vegetable oil, then pour corn evenly and cover tightly with a lid.
3. First, you will hear rare pops, and after half a minute - a real bombardment. This is the popped corn.
4. As soon as the explosions subside, you can remove the container from the stove, remove the lid and pour the finished snack into the cup.
5. Sprinkle with granulated sugar or salt.

Cherry popcorn in the oven

What you need:

• bag of gelatin with cherry;
• butter;
• corn kernels.

How to cook:

1. IN a saucepan add grains, sprinkle with melted butter.
2. Dissolve the gelatin in water and sprinkle it over the corn as well. Close the lid.
3. Put in an oven preheated 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:

1. Prepare popcorn in a skillet.
2. Melt butter in a saucepan, cover with granulated sugar. Cook until caramelized.
3. 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 comes out.

Citrus popcorn

Structure:

• corn grains;
• butter;
• granulated sugar;
• lemon or orange zest.

How to cook:

1. Dry the zest and mix with granulated sugar, grind in a coffee grinder.
2. Prepare popcorn in any way you want.
3. For ready-made hot sprinkle the grains with sugar zest. The dish will turn out with a citrus aroma and taste, and also colorful.

How to make popcorn in microwave

The easiest way to make popcorn is with a microwave. A couple of options are possible here:

1. Commercial popcorn with any flavor - these can be found in almost any store. It takes 5 minutes to prepare, you just need to remove the bag from the box, straighten it, put it right side up in the microwave. Turn it on and voila- the popcorn is ready. But such a product is not made clear from what, all sorts of additives, flavors, flavor enhancers, so it is not very good for the health of the human body.
2. From simple corn kernels - here you have to tinker a little in order to add flavor to the dish, but this is better and healthier than a purchased item in a box. You can take a deep plate, pour in a little oil, although you can do without it. Sprinkle in some grains, mix with butter, cover with a lid or other flat plate. Put in the stove, turning on the right time. 3-5 minutes explosions and popcorn is ready. And how to sprinkle or water it - decide yourself. By the way, you can salt the grains before cooking.