This one’s dedicated to my new favorite snack – brought up in 180 Kitchen, recipe #83. This time, Aurora and I have gotten crazy and added a little nutritional yeast to our coconutty favorite. Aurora, by the way, is the popcorn princess. She makes it the best. Her recipe. Not mine.
I must say, there is no finer use for coconut oil. Say what you will about butter on popcorn, but a light, expeller-pressed coconut oil shatters my best friend butter. It defies reason I know, but try it sometime, especially if you’re seeking out the metabolic advantages of coconut oil but have failed to find a way to consume it that doesn’t make you gag.
In the following recipe, I:
1) Place a jar of coconut oil into hot water to liquefy it.
2) Cook about a half cup of Steinke’s heirloom popcorn (awesome) in an air popper.
3) Pour lots of coconut oil (5-6 Tablespoons), 2T nutritional yeast (optional), and some sea salt over the popcorn and mix it all up a bit.
That’s about all there is to it. Does anyone really not have time to do this at home? Makes a great post-dinner snack. Get’s that ol’ tryptophan across the blood-brain barrier where happy serotonin gets made and transformed into melatonin for a long, dreamy night’s rest.
Enjoy.
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