Best 9 Cheesy Popcorn Recipes

CHEESY CHILI POPCORN

Steps:

• Place popcorn in a bowl, preferably one with a lid. Pour melted butter over popcorn, shaking and tossing until popcorn is coated. Add Parmesan cheese, garlic powder, and chili powder. Toss again.

CHEESY POPCORN

Steps:

• Heat oil in deep pot over medium high heat. Add corn. Cover pot and pop the corn, shaking pan often. Remove from heat. Drizzle with melted butter. Sprinkle cheese evenly over hot corn. Serve.

EASY CHEESY POPCORN

Steps:

• Pop the popcorn. It can be any brand, just as long as it's plain buttered, and not anything fancy like kettle popcorn or extra cheesy popcorn.
• When the popcorn is ready, carefully take it out of the microwave and pour it into a bowl. Spray the spray butter onto the popcorn, then shake and repeat.
• After you've sprayed the butter on - after shaking the bowl, spraying on, and repeating - sprinkle the cheese popcorn seasoning onto the popcorn. Then shake and repeat again.
• If the cheese isn't sticking, repeat the shaking and spraying step.
• Enjoy! You can also use Parmesan cheese, powdered salad dressing mix, etc. Experiment with your flavors! Just remember the spray butter.

CHEESY POPCORN

Steps:

• Place packaged popcorn in the microwave; cook on high until popping begins to slow down, about 2 1/2 minutes.
• Mix 1 cup cheese puffs, 1 cup corn chips, and pretzels together in a large snack bowl using your hands. Pour popped popcorn into the bowl and mix once more. Mix in pepperoni and bacon bits lightly, making sure they don't pile at the bottom of the bowl. Season with salt.

CHEESY GARLIC POPCORN

Steps:

• Drizzle popcorn with olive oil, then toss with remaining ingredients.

VEGAN 'CHEESY' POPCORN

Steps:

• In a large Dutch oven or heavy-bottomed pot set over medium-high heat, heat oil and 3 popcorn kernels. When kernels pop, add remaining kernels, lower heat to medium-low, and cover almost all the way with a lid, leaving a tiny crack open for steam to escape (face the crack away from where you are standing).
• Cook, shaking occasionally, until popping stops.
• Transfer popcorn to a bowl, and immediately toss with salt, nutritional yeast, black pepper, dried rosemary and red-pepper flakes. For maximum crunch, let popcorn settle for 5 to 7 minutes before eating.

NACHO CHEESY POPCORN

Steps:

• Heat the grapeseed oil in a large saucepan or soup pot over medium-high heat. Add the popcorn seeds and place the lid on the pan. Shake vigorously to coat the kernels with oil. When the corn starts to pop, shake the pan constantly until the popping stops, 5 to 7 minutes. Remove from the heat and pour the popped corn into a large mixing bowl.
• Drizzle the melted coconut oil over the corn, and sprinkle with nutritional yeast, chili powder, cumin, garlic powder and sea salt. Stir thoroughly and serve with a few shakes of hot sauce, if using.

CRAZY CORN! (CHEESY CARAMEL POPCORN)

Steps:

• 1. Heat the oven to 250°F. Coat a large roasting pan with some butter and place the popcorn in the pan. Set aside.
• 2. Place the brown sugar, butter, corn syrup, and salt in a medium heavy-bottomed saucepan over medium heat and bring to a boil, stirring occasionally with a rubber spatula until the sugar has dissolved, about 5 minutes. Continue to boil without stirring for 3 minutes. Remove from heat, add the vanilla and baking soda, and whisk until the caramel is light in color, foamy, and has doubled in volume, about 10 seconds.
• 3. Immediately drizzle over the popcorn, stir with a rubber spatula until thoroughly coated, and spread into an even layer.
• 4. Bake, stirring every 15 minutes with a rubber spatula and scraping up any caramel from the bottom of the pan, until a cooled piece of popcorn is very crunchy, about 45 minutes to 1 hour total. (To test for doneness, take a few pieces of popcorn out of the oven and let cool for 30 seconds. If they're crunchy, then the caramel corn is done.)
• 5. Transfer the caramel corn to a work surface or rimmed baking sheet to cool completely (it will crisp as it cools).
• 6. If you want to make your own cheese popcorn. Just pop your popcorn, coat with some butter and toss. Then coat with dry cheese sauce mix (such as the cheese packets you get in your kids kraft macaroni and cheese) and toss again.

BLACK PEPPER AND PARM CHEESY POPCORN

Steps:

• Combine the popcorn and oil in a large kettle or pot with a tight fitting lid and place over medium high heat. when the corn begins to pop, shake the pot constantly. When the popping slows, remove the pot from the heat and pour the butter over the top. Combine the spices and toss with the popped corn. This is also good with a little nutritional yeast added. Yum!