Showing posts with label Chex Mix. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chex Mix. Show all posts

Friday, October 26, 2012

Pumpkin Spice Chex Mix

So, after a bit of mad experimentation, I've invented a new Chex Mix recipe.
Here's how to make a half batch:
1.  Mix 1.5 cups each of Corn Chex, Rice Chex, and Wheat Chex, 1 cup of pretzel sticks, and 1 cup of walnuts in a large, microwave-safe bowl.
2.  Mix half a stick of butter, 1 teaspoon each of cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and allspice, and 1.5 teaspoons of brown sugar in a normal-sized, microwave-safe bowl.
3.  Microwave until the butter is completely melted, stirring every 10 to 15 seconds.
4.  Mix the sauce into the dry ingredients.  This part can be challenging, especially as the spices want to settle to the bottom of the bowl.  The best way that I've found is to take the stirring tool that was used for the sauce and get a bit onto it, scraping the bottom to get the spices, and then stir that into the dry mix.  This method is slower, but has the added benefit of allowing you to get sauce on every piece.
5.  Microwave for about 4 minutes (but use your judgement, based on your microwave - ours is pretty intense), stirring every minute in the first (roughly) half, and every 30 seconds in the second (roughly) half.  Mostly, just get the center moved to the outside and the bottom moved to the top, to even out heating and prevent burning.
6.  Spread the result out onto aluminum foil to cool.
That's it, really.  The spices essentially emulate pumpkin pie spice, and the brown sugar helps to bring out the taste.  I was going for an autumn taste, and I think that I got it.

Monday, April 30, 2012

My Chex Mix Recipe

Because I can, I'm posting the recipe that I've recently come to use to make Chex mix.  I basically combined the common elements of recipes that I found online and tweaked it to fit my own needs, as one does.
Ingredients:

  • 1.5 cups corn Chex
  • 1.5 cups rice Chex
  • 1.5 cups wheat Chex
  • 1 cup pretzel sticks
  • 1 cup peanuts
  • 0.5 sticks butter (regular (salted) table butter)
  • 1.5 to 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce (vary to suit taste)
  • 0.5 teaspoon Lawry's Seasoned Salt
  • 2 cloves (or 1 big clove) garlic, finely chopped
  • 0.125* teaspoon onion powder
The actual making is pretty standard stuff.  Mix cereals, pretzels, and peanuts.  Melt the remaining ingredients in the microwave, stirring often to get things evenly mixed and make sure that everything's wet for most of it.  Drizzle that over the dry stuff, stirring extensively to get the sauce on everything.  Nuke for 6 minutes, in 1.5 minute increments, stirring between each increment for even heating and even sauce distribution.  Let cool on paper towels before containing, though it might not last that long.  It really is good stuff.

So, I have a rather traditional** Chex mix recipe that my coworkers, my family, and I find delicious.  What should I do now?  EXPERIMENT!  MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!  Now that my creativity has been unleashed, no one will be safe!  Or something.  If I find the time (not this weekend, but perhaps the next one), then I'll mess with things.  I've already got a few ideas in mind.
Maybe don't hold your breath, though, as a precautionary measure.

*That's 1/8.
**peanuts, none of that filler (bread stick pieces, bagel chips, rye chips), and, to some extent, the use of pretzel sticks instead of pretzel-shaped pretzels