I’m not going to lie: I sometimes let our daughter eat popcorn for dinner. I can make all sorts of excuses: it’s late; we’ve had a long day; popcorn is super easy; she adores it. But the truth is we’ve found a way to make regular popcorn into a filling, nutritious, and protein-rich snack chock full of omega-3’s, omega-6’s, vitamins B-1, B-2, B-12, C, E, and carotene, iron, zinc, lignins, and lauric acid.
When the kid says she wants popcorn for dinner, I can’t argue with that!
Here’s our family’s favorite popcorn recipe (thanks to our friend Mariah for the flax seed oil tip!):
We melt coconut oil in the bottom of our stovetop popcorn popper
We then thoroughly coat the popped popcorn with 1-2 tablespoons of flax seed oil. On top of that we mix in 1/4-1/2 cup of nutritional yeast, depending on how coated we want the popcorn (my daughter and husband like every kernel completely covered in yeast!), and a pinch of salt.
If you’re like our four year old, than you may want a side bowl of nutritional yeast to go with your popcorn so you can roll each kernel until it’s mounded in nutritional yeast (oh, the protein! oh, the B-vitamins!).
It’s finger-licking good!
Please try it and let us know what you think!
This is a great post, and fantastic pictures! My son and I also love nutritional yeast on our popcorn, but I haven’t ever tried coconut or flax seed oil. What a great tip! Thanks for sharing your recipe.
Thank! Hope you guys enjoy it!
Yesss! Me tooo. I love yeast on my popcorn, now I gotta try your oil suggestions!
I’m going to have to try the magical nutritional yeast :)
We just had some of Ms. Lander’s amazing popcorn today – so lucky and so yummy! I didn’t realize that coconut and flax oil is her secret. I also add a little sprinkle of Spirulina into the mix at my place for a little extra nutrition and color.
I don’t think Mariah’s tried it with coconut oil yet, but her flax seed oil popcorn is the BEST! I love the idea of adding Spirulina into the mix: green popcorn sounds FUN!