Description
The ultimate sweet and salty snack for a night in, make the crunchy movie companion complete with rich brown butter and a drizzle of sweet chocolate.
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 tbsp coconut oil
- ½ cup fresh popcorn kernels
- 2 tbsp softened salted butter
- 1/3rd cup dark chocolate chunks / chips / grated, melted
Instructions
- or the browned butter, in a saucepan on a medium flame, add the butter.
- Heat till it melts, then turns foamy and finally turns a nutty brown color.
- Take it off the heat immediately as it can burn quite quickly
- Skim the foam from the top and use only the brown liquid.
- In a heavy bottomed saucepan with the flame on high, add 2 tbsp coconut oil and wait for it to heat up.
- Add 2-3 corn kernels to test if they pop.
- Once they do, add the rest of the kernels, cover the saucepan and constantly keep agitating the pan to avoid the popcorn from burning at the bottom and even popping.
- Once the popping sound has stopped, take it off the heat.
- Slowly take the lid off and check.
- CAUTION: The popcorn will continue to pop due to residual heat, so make sure you do not sink your face into the saucepan.
- Add the browned butter and mix well.
- Add the melted dark chocolate and mix well.
- Serve.
- Category: Side, Snack, Dessert