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Hi Bold Bakers!
When making fresh Popcorn at home you usually have to buy those store-bought microwave packets. They are a fast convenient solution, right? But did you know you can make it yourself in just 2 MINUTES in the microwave with only a brown paper bag and some popcorn kernels? It sounds crazy but when you try it you won’t believe the results.
Homemade Microwave Popcorn is the best kind of fast food. It is low-fat, gluten free, inexpensive and a great snack food. The best thing about making your own is that you get to control the ingredients that go into it, like real butter instead of a “butter-like substance” and so on. I’ll show you 3 Big & Bold Popcorn Flavors including Movie Theatre-Style Popcorn, Cheese & Rosemary Popcorn, & the most impressive Microwave Caramel Corn!
Popcorn can be a delicious blank canvas for you to add your favorite flavors and seasonings to. Some of my personal favorites are the original Movie Theatre-Style Popcorn. It’s buttery, salty and you can sneak it into the cinema in your handbag.
Microwave Movie Theatre-Style Popcorn
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Microwave Movie Theatre-Style Popcorn
Ingredients
- ⅓ cup (60g/2oz) popcorn kernels
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 3 tablespoons (1 ½oz/45g) butter, melted
Instructions
- Put the popcorn kernels in a medium brown paper bag. Roll the top of it closed nice and tight. This will keep in the steam while cooking
- Place the bag upright in the microwave (not on it’s side)
- Cook for roughly 1 minute 35-50 seconds or until the kernels stop popping at the rate of at least 1 per second. Keep an eye on it (NOTE: my microwave is 1200 watts so your cooking time may vary depending on your microwave)
- In the brown paper bag, pour in the melted butter and shake the bag while pouring the butter in a slow stream. Enjoy immediately
Recipe Notes
* stay close by the microwave while cooking so you can hear it pop, the popcorn can burn if cooked too long
*Place bag standing upright, not on its side
*store popcorn in an airtight container for 2 days.
Weight Watchers Point: 4 Smart Points:8
Cheese & Rosemary Microwave Popcorn
Another incredible flavor is Cheesy Popcorn. I have always loved cheesy popcorn ever since I was a kid. My mum used to give us a bag going to school. My Cheese & Rosemary Microwave Popcorn is a little bit of a sophisticated version of what I grew up with but also a nod to the original. You can find my Cheese & Rosemary Microwave Popcorn recipe here.
Microwave Caramel Popcorn
Microwave Caramel Corn, who knew that was possible? Not me until recently. You will have to see it to believe it but trust me. Out of a brown paper bag comes crunchy Caramel Corn that is covered in a crisp shell of caramel that you would only imagine would have to be baked to get those results. You can find my Microwave Caramel Corn recipe here!
Hi Gemma!
Do you have a recipe for kettle corn ?
Love this idea so much!! What about churo
( cinnamon sugar ) pop corn or a moose tracks popcorn?
Fun & yum! I will say, I made my popcorn on the stove as usual using 1/2 cup of popping corn. I made the full recipe for the caramel sauce, but only used about 1/2 of it (and then ate all of the caramel corn!!).
Hi Gemma,I just made your paper bag butter popcorn in my 12 watt microwave in two paper bags one at a time for 1:43 seconds and it worked out and tasted really good and mom and I loved the popcorn in the two bags.I will make the other two flavored popcorn when I buy those ingredients to put in the popcorn.
I love this I will try it!!!!!!!
I love this idea and want to try it Gemma, but I’m worried about creating a fire with the paperbag and my microwave oven. Can you comment. I have a Panasonic 750W oven.
Hello.. Are brown paper bag is safe for microwave? Thanks
Thank you again Gemma! Another hit.
Our vintage (circa 1993) microwave oven only has 800W.
I had set time to 2.5 minutes and corn was still popping.
Will try 3 minutes and will remain vigilant next time.
CHEERS!
Thank you for the wonderful popcorn recipes! I so enjoy your recipes and watching you create yummy goodies!
Just wow! Thank you so much for this recipe. I have not eaten popcorn in years because I did not want to inject all the nasty chemicals they put into the microwave bags. But this! I know everything that is on there! This will become a happy snack again in my house! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!