Microwave Popcorn
"A cheap and tasty way to make your own Microwave Popcorn at home. I saw this on Good Eats years ago and have been making my own microwave popcorn ever since. I do lay a paper towel under the bag in the microwave because the bag does get oily."
Original is 2 servings
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (16.1 g)
- Calories 128.4
- Total Fat - 14 g
- Saturated Fat - 2 g
- Cholesterol - 0 mg
- Sodium - 307 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 1 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0.2 g
- Sugars - 0 g
- Protein - 0.2 g
- Calcium - 0.5 mg
- Iron - 0.1 mg
- Vitamin C - 0 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Toss the popcorn with the oil in the paper bag.
Step 2
Fold the top of the bag over and staple the bag once in the middle. One staple will not arc in the microwave.
Step 3
Place the bag horizontally on a paper towel in the microwave on high for 2-3 minutes, or use the popcorn feature on your microwave.
Step 4
Remove bag from microwave and open carefully….the bag is hot! Pour popcorn into a bowl and add salt or seasoning to taste, if desired.
Tips
- Paper lunch bag
- Stapler