Popcorn is a healthy snack. It contains lots of fibre in it. Because it is made from corn it is very good for your health. Eating popcorn will lower your blood sugar .Popcorn contains low Fat. Popcorn is rich in nutrients. You can make a healthy diet out of popcorn by experimenting with different flavours. There are lot of healthy popcorn recipes and we will discuss each in detail.
Popcorn Trail Mix:
Ingredients required are Popcorn and some raisins. We also need dried fruits like apricots. To prepare this take a large bowl put in the dried fruit, raisins and the put in the already prepared popcorn into it. This recipe is high in nutrients we get 8g of proteins, Saturated Fat 3g, Fibre 15g, Carbohydrate 162g.
Other nutrients that can be added are dried fruit that gives Iron and fibre, Almonds which will provide protein, fibre and iron, Pumpkin seed which will give protein and fibre, soy nuts provides fibre and calcium.
Praline Popcorn Crunch:
Ingredients needed are: popcorn, honey, vanilla, baking soda, margarine and pecan halves.
To make Praline popcorn crunch you need to heat some oil in a pan and then add popcorn into it. Pour in the honey, sugar and margarine. Heat this for some minutes and keep on stirring. Remember to heat this in Medium Flame. Now cook this mixture for around five minutes and then remove from the burner. Now take vanilla and baking soda and put into the popcorn. Then add pecans, keep on stirring for 30 minutes. Keep it for cooling and then break into pieces and there you go your Praline popcorn crunch is ready to eat.
Peppy Popcorn:
Ingredients needed are popcorn, cheese and some dried oregano. You also need some paprika.
Take a large bowl mix in all the ingredients like paprika, cheese and oregano. Put this mixture into the popcorn and mix it well. You can also add some raw cheese on top of it.
Spicy Peanut Curry Popcorn:
Ingredients needed are popcorn, chilly paste, peanut butter and curry powder.
To prepare this you need corn kernels. Put these corn kernels into microwave container. Then add some butter and water. Mix all this to make a creamy peanut butter mixture. Microwave this for 40 seconds.
Spicy popcorn:
Ingredients needed are popcorn, butter and chilly powder.
To make this recipe take a pan and put some butter in it. Add some chilly powder into the butter and heat it for some time. Now take this mixture and pour it on the popcorn. The spicy popcorn is ready to eat.
This way you can prepare many healthy popcorn recipes by adding your favourite ingredients. Make popcorn at home and enjoy it watching movie with your family.