Easy Homemade Caramel Popcorn Recipe

 

Back in the days, i.e 1980's caramel popcorn used to be a weekend treat. As a family we used to visit cubbon park in Bangalore, after carousel ride and toy train ride,  we used to enjoy coal roasted corn (on the cob) and caramel popcorn sold there by local vendors at the park. I was feeling nostalgic and wanted to recreate something from the past during this lockdown and prepared a perfect batch of caramel popcorn.

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Ingredients:

1/4 Cup Corn Seeds

1/2 Cup Sugar

3 Tbsp Sugar

5 Tbsp Oil

1/4 Tsp Vanilla Essense

1/4 Tsp Cooking Soda Powder (Soda-bi-carb)

1/4 Tsp Salt

Method:

Heat a wok on high flame add oil allow to smoke a bit.

Add the corn seeds and fry for a minute, once the seeds start to pop, cover and cook until the entire batch of seeds have popped.

Once the popcorn is ready transfer to a mixing bowl and reserve. Try to separate the popcorn and uncooked seeds and reserve.

Heat the wok on high flame, add sugar and butter stir and combine till the butter melts. Once the butter melts the sugar with start browning place on high and add 1/2 cup water and stir constantly.

Once the sugar melts and the volume of caramel has reduced, add soda-bi-carb stir well for a minute or until one string consistency has formed.

Add the caramel to the popcorn and mixwell until the entire batch of corn is well coated. Transfer the caramel coated popcorn to a plate and allow to reach room temperature.

Sprinkle little salt, separate the popcorn and serve...Enjoy 😉

If your planning to prepare and store this caramel popcorn in bulk it can be coated and stored refridgerated or stored in airtight container until use.

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