Healthy Stovetop Popcorn | Healthy Home Economist

Rediscover the easy technique for stovetop popcorn cooked in a skillet with healthy fats similar to Grandma used to make. No particular equipment is critical!

Popcorn is a healthy deal with that delights each younger and previous!

However, for the reason that kernels are often not soaked or fermented, ensure to not eat it too usually!

Why Organic Popcorn is a Must

If selfmade popcorn is one thing you get pleasure from frequently, I like to recommend shopping for sprouted popcorn (such as this brand). It is a little more costly, however positively value it as it’s simpler to digest.

At the very least, insist on natural unfastened popcorn, as typical manufacturers will possible be GMO and comprise glyphosate residue (GMOs are extremely sprayed with Roundup). This chemical herbicide is very disruptive to the immune system and carcinogenic as nicely.

If you’re lucky to have heirloom popcorn accessible in your space, you may be delighted to note that the softer, smaller kernels don’t get caught in your tooth as soon as popped!

Avoid All Microwave Brands

In addition to insisting on natural popcorn, you will need to keep away from microwave variations.

This is as a result of the packaging is poisonous and the unnatural cooking technique is denaturing to the molecules of the corn itself because it heats from the within out (as a substitute of out of doors in).

I’m sufficiently old to recollect the time earlier than microwaves grew to become standard and the “microwave version” of economic popcorn got here in a throwaway aluminum pan with the kernels inside foil for popping on the stovetop!

Stovetop Making a Comeback!

Interestingly, as extra folks reject microwaves because of their denaturing of the food, Jiffy Pop stovetop popcorn is making a comeback (now sadly owned by globalist ConAgra Foods).

Sadly, the components are TOTALLY completely different (and never in a great way) than once I was a child. Not to say the poisonous packaging (which is a lot of the $8 value as there are solely 2 tablespoons of popcorn in every throwaway skillet!)

The reality is that the healthiest solution to make popcorn IS on the stovetop! But, this doesn’t contain shopping for a one-use, throwaway model from the grocery store.

All you want is a big, stainless-steel skillet to make popcorn. Source a healthy fats and extremely mineralized sea salt and you’re able to go!

Lately, I’ve been utilizing pastured ghee. By utilizing this healthy fats, popcorn turns into a great supply of the elusive MK4 type of Vitamin K2.

It is very easy to pop popcorn this fashion and it reduces the variety of home equipment that have to be saved in kitchen cupboards.

The DIY stovetop technique additionally avoids aluminum pans and foil from “GMO Jiffy” with its pretend butter flavoring, GMO corn and citric acid, poisonous artificial preservatives (TBHQ – tert-Butylhydroquinone), and even pretend shade!

Many years in the past, I filmed a healthy snacks video for the Weston A. Price Foundation. The stovetop popcorn snippet is a part of the recipe beneath.

I proceed to make it precisely the identical right this moment!

Bonus! If you get pleasure from this stovetop popcorn technique, do this popped sorghum recipe too, which is India’s conventional model.

Caramel Popcorn Variation

For the vacations, you would possibly want to use organic mushroom popcorn (pops up large and spherical) and drizzle with selfmade butterscotch (unfold the cooled popcorn on cookie sheets to do that).

This enjoyable variation makes a scrumptious present of healthy caramel popcorn for family and friends!

Easy Stovetop Popcorn

Simple technique for stovetop popcorn cooked in a skillet with healthy fats similar to Grandma used to make. No particular equipment is critical!

Instructions

1. Add coconut oil and popcorn to a heavy skillet on medium-high warmth.

2. Cover with a glass lid and heat on medium warmth shaking a number of occasions till popping begins (about 3-5 minutes).

3. Once popping begins, decrease the warmth to medium-low and proceed occasional light shaking of the pan whereas on the warmth till popping dies down.

4. Place popcorn in a big bowl and drizzle on melted butter. Sprinkle on sea salt to style or non-obligatory dietary yeast if desired.

Nutrition Facts

Easy Stovetop Popcorn

Amount Per Serving (1 cup)

Calories 91
Calories from Fat 63

% Daily Value*

Fat 7g11%

Saturated Fat 6g30%

Monounsaturated Fat 1g

Carbohydrates 6g2%

Fiber 1g4%

Protein 1g2%

* Percent Daily Values are primarily based on a 2000 calorie food plan.