Popcorn butter

This yellow, intensely buttery homemade Film Popcorn stays crisp FOR DAYS! Save a fortune at the film theatre candy bar – just don't forget to consider a giant bag so you can smuggle in loads of your personal homemade butter popcorn….

Homemade Movie Popcorn

Today’s butter popcorn recipe is for everybody who’s blown a fortune at movie theatre candy bars.

In distinct, for all fellow Aussies who remember enjoying low-cost movie tickets on Tight-Arse-Tuesdays*, only to devote twice as considerably on popcorn and M&M’s.

I can’t aid you on the M&M’s.

But I can aid you with the butter popcorn.

This butter popcorn is intensely buttery – and it stays crisp for days!

* In Australia, movie tickets are (had been??) discounted by most cinemas every single Tuesday. We affectionally referred to it as Tight-Arse-Tuesdays. You’d be hard pressed to locate an Aussie who isn’t familiar with this term!

How to make butter popcorn with out it going soggy

The secret to remain-crispy popcorn that’s really butter is clarified butter, also acknowledged as ghee. This is just melted butter that’s simmered until the water in the butter evaporates – simply because butter is made up of body fat, milk solids and water.

As soon as the water is evaporated, the melted butter is now pure butter unwanted fat. This has two positive aspects for butter popcorn:

Different to making clarified butter: Use shop bought ghee. That’s what clarified butter is!

How to make clarified butter

This stuff is also acknowledged as liquid gold. The buttery smell is just insane!

And if that isn’t sufficient, an additional miracle is that clarified butter can be stored in the pantry for months and months. It’s liquid when warm and a soft butter consistency at area temperature (just microwave to melt).

You’ll uncover ghee is known as for in virtually each Indian recipe. Also, use it in place of melted butter in any recipe – clarified butter is just browned butter which is butter on steroids!

How to make Movie Theatre Butter Popcorn

So now you know the secret to remain-crispy butter popcorn, here’s how to make Film Theatre Butter Popcorn that’s ultra buttery and will stray crisp for days

All natural YELLOW movie theatre popcorn

For a really genuine Movie Popcorn experience, this recipe includes an selection to make your popcorn yellow!

Right after several several batches of popcorn, I’ve settled on a blend of imitation saffron and tumeric powder as the best way to add an genuine yellow colour to the popcorn. I dissolve it in a touch of water, then swirl it all around in the butter just before incorporating the kernels.

Caveat: You will get yellow fingers and tongue, just like when you indulge in Cheetos and Cheezels! There is also the slightest hum of warmth left on your tongue from the spices, barely obvious. None of my close friends observed it – until I probed them repeatedly.

For fellow foods nerds interested in how I landed on this: The spices have to be dissolved in a touch of water because they don’t dissolve or seep into fat. This was also the difficulty with typical yellow food colouring – it doesn’t dissolve in unwanted fat. I attempted emulsifying it by shaking in a jar with the butter, grinding with salt and sprinkling. I also discovered that utilizing both spices attained the colour I was right after – tumeric alone makes the popcorn a crazy neon yellow colour, whilst saffron comes out a cheddar orange colour.

Phew! Who knew I could publish so considerably about popcorn.

I will inform you this although. Putting aside the yellow colouring, because that truly is optional, Homemade Movie Popcorn is insanely addictive. It’s buttery in a way that just dousing with normal melted butter by no means will be. It’s lightly and evenly salted in a way that you can’t attain just by making use of normal cooking or table salt.

And the greatest portion?

IT STAYS CRISP FOR DAYS. As in – flawlessly crispy.

Begin pondering about how you’re going to smuggle this into the cinema. Due to the fact truthfully, it’s practically criminal how high-priced film popcorn is to buy. – Nagi x

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