Today, we will tell you how to cook your favorite treat for visitors to cinemas - popcorn. To do this, you need to buy or grow corn on your site for popcorn, and give very little time to prepare the product. Homemade popcorn is not less tasty than purchased, and its ridiculous cost price will be an excellent motivation for hand-made cooking.
How to make sweet popcorn at home in caramel in a frying pan?
Ingredients:
- corn for popcorn - 60 g;
- vegetable oil without aroma - 55 ml;
- sand sugar - 220 g;
- purified water - 40 ml;
- baking soda - 10 g;
- lemon juice - 4-5 drops.
Preparation
Initially we will prepare the popcorn itself. To do this, in a frying pan with a thick bottom and high sides, we pour oil without oil and place it on the fire. Its intensity should be slightly higher than average. We now pour corn for popcorn into the frying pan and immediately cover it with a lid. After a few seconds, characteristic claps will be heard, which will indicate the correct flow of the process. The seeds unfold, turning into popcorn. During the whole period of frying, periodically shake the frying pan, so that unsolved grains sink to the bottom, and the open ones are not burnt. After the patting in the frying pan stops, we remove it from the fire and start cooking caramel.
Pour into the thick-walled sauté pan or cauldron sugar, pour a little water and add lemon juice. We put the vessel on the fire just below the average and leave it for a while alone, just watching the processes from the outside. When the sugar begins to melt, taking a liquid consistency, we tilt the vessel a little bit, one way and the other, moistening the undissolved crystals to speed up the process. Stir the contents of dishes at this time is not recommended until all the sugar melts. Then we begin to interfere with the caramel carefully so that it does not burn, and heat it until a beautiful amber color is obtained.
Now very quickly we pour soda into the caramel mass, we also stir the foaming substance quickly and pour it onto the popcorn, trying to distribute it evenly. Mix everything quickly and neatly, hastily move it to a baking sheet lined with parchment leaf and spread it out, spreading popcorn in caramel in one layer.
We leave popcorn in caramel to freeze for about seven minutes and can try.
The process of making sweet popcorn can be greatly simplified. The taste of the finished product in this case is somewhat different from what is prepared according to the technology described above, but in the absence of free time this method is just a find. Corn corn is poured into a frying pan, mixed, so that the oil evenly covers them, and then pour the powdered sugar and mix again. We then cover the frying pan with a lid and wait until the end of the cooking and opening process of all the grains. Sugar melts on heating and gives popcorn caramel flavor.
How to fry salty popcorn at home in a microwave oven?
Ingredients:
- corn for popcorn - 25 g;
- vegetable oil without flavor - 25 ml;
- salt fine "Extra" - to taste.
Preparation
When preparing popcorn in a microwave oven, and choosing the dishes for this, we take into account that corn in this case significantly increases in volume and from the proposed amount of it will turn out popcorn in volume approximately
Place the corn in a glass bowl, sprinkle with vegetable oil, add salt to taste and mix. We cover the vessel with a glass lid or a second plate and put it in the device. Set it to 800 watts and install the timer for five minutes. After the time allotted for cooking, leave the container with popcorn in the microwave for another couple of minutes. And only after that we remove from the microwave and enjoy.
In a similar way, you can prepare sweet popcorn in a microwave oven, replacing salt with powdered sugar. It must be generously sprinkled with oiled corn kernels.