Best Homemade Movie Style Butter Popcorn
This is the best homemade movie style butter popcorn recipe ever- with very simple ingredients and easy to follow instructions! No fancy equipment needed- just a pot with a lid!
Servings: 2 quarts
Calories: 144kcal
Equipment
Ingredients
- ½ cup popcorn kernels
- 2 tbsp grapeseed oil
- 1 tbsp ghee clarified butter
For the topping:
- 3 tbsp ghee/clarified butter
- popcorn salt pulse salt in food processor until super fine if you don't have popcorn salt
Instructions
- In a tall pan, melt clarified butter with grapeseed oil on medium high heat.
- When ghee is melted and slightly foamy, add popcorn kernels.
- Place lid on pot, and gently swirl.
- When popcorn starts popping, melt additional butter in a small pan.
- When popcorn has slowed, and you hear less then three pops every two seconds, remove from heat (but leave in pan).
- When popping has completed fully, slowly pour popcorn into a large bowl.
- Add clarified butter by slowly drizzling it on to popcorn, then shake up popcorn and drizzle a little more on (so you get it spread out evenly).
- Add popcorn salt to taste.
Nutrition
Serving: 82g | Calories: 144kcal | Carbohydrates: 1g | Fat: 16g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 8g | Cholesterol: 27mg | Sodium: 112mg