Recipe for kettle corn?

Question

Does anyone have a recipe for making kettle corn on the stove top? By kettle corn I mean the popcorn seasoned with sugar and salt. I saw them making it on television and they added the sugar while they were heating the kernels in the oil. Is that necessary? Or can I just pop the corn and sprinkle on sugar and salt?

Answer 1

Here are two recipes I found take your pick.



Kettle Corn
Submitted by: Sue
Rated: 5 out of 5 by 232 members Prep Time: 5 Minutes
Cook Time: 15 Minutes Ready In: 20 Minutes
Yields: 5 servings
"White sugar makes the Kettle Corn taste like popcorn balls. Use brown sugar and it will taste like caramel corn."
INGREDIENTS:
1/2 cup unpopped popcorn
kernels

1/4 cup white sugar
1/4 cup vegetable oil
DIRECTIONS:
1. Place the popcorn and sugar in a large pot with vegetable oil. Over a medium heat, begin to pop the popcorn. Constantly shake the pot to ensure that the popcorn kernels and oil do not burn. Once the popping has slowed, remove the pot from heat.


Kettle Corn Recipe

Reference : Recipes

I was at a big fair once and got some kettle corn. It was really good. Here's a recipe for Kettle Corn that you can do at home. You might want some adult supervision. Hot splashing oil can burn you if you're not careful.
Kettle Corn

Ingredients:

1/4 cup corn oil
1/4 cup popcorn
1/4 cup sugar
salt

Directions:

Use a decent size pot (with a lid) and pour in enough oil to have about an 1/8" covering the bottom. Don't use too much oil. Too much oil will sog the popped popcorn and you'll probably get sick to your stomach when you eat it. Dump in enough popcorn to make a single layer in the pot. Put the pot on medium high heat. When you see the corn start to get excited but before it starts to pop, quickly pour in the sugar as evenly as you can across the top. Cover and shake back and forth to pop (like Jiffy Pop). When you pull it off you need to slightly salt it. You can't pop every single kernel because you would scorch the popcorn. Also pouring in the sugar too soon tends to make the popcorn scorch more easily. If you pour it in too late, the sugar stays granular and grainy. Also get the popped popcorn out of the pot as quickly as possible to prevent scorching.

Answer 2

SWEET POPCORN

3 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons oil
1/3 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup popcorn kernels (approximately)
1 drop of red food coloring (optional)

In a medium saucepan, melt the butter in the oil. Stir in the popcorn kernels.
Adjust popcorn quantity so that a single layer of popcorn kernels cover the bottom of the pan.

When the popcorn is heated, pour the sugar over all and cover with a tight lid.

Turn up the heat and stay by the pan, shaking it back and forth over the burner. The kernels should begin to pop - when they do, turn the heat down after a minute. Continue shaking the pan another minute or two and remove from heat.

Stir in a pat of butter and a pinch of salt and serve.

Answer 3

u can just buy sugar flavored popcorn

Answer 4

add the sugar while it is popping...that way it doesn't fall to the bottom of the bowl/pan