Spicy Party Mix
Published Feb. 4, 2021
- Total Time
- 1½ hours
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Ingredients
- 9cups rice, corn or wheat Chex or Crispix cereal, or a combination
- 2cups any kind of lightly salted nut
- 2cups small pretzels
- 3cups add-ins, such as cheese crackers, rice crackers, bagel chips, sesame sticks or a combination
- ½cup unsalted butter (1 stick)
- 2tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 1 to 2tablespoons hot sauce, plus more to taste
- 1teaspoon garlic powder, plus more to taste
- 1teaspoon onion powder, plus more to taste
- ¼teaspoon sweet or smoked paprika
- 1½teaspoons fine sea salt
- ¼teaspoon black pepper, plus more to taste
Nutritional analysis per serving (36 servings)
382 calories; 14 grams fat; 4 grams saturated fat; 0 grams trans fat; 5 grams monounsaturated fat; 4 grams polyunsaturated fat; 57 grams carbohydrates; 1 gram dietary fiber; 1 gram sugars; 8 grams protein; 427 milligrams sodium
Note: The information shown is Edamam’s estimate based on available ingredients and preparation. It should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice.
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Preparation
- Step 1
Arrange racks in the top and bottom thirds of the oven and heat to 250 degrees. Line two sheet pans with parchment paper.
- Step 2
Combine cereal, nuts, pretzels and add-ins in a very large bowl. In a medium, microwave-safe bowl, melt butter in the microwave in 20-second increments, about 1 minute. (You can also do this in a small saucepan over low heat on the stovetop.) Add Worcestershire sauce, hot sauce, garlic powder, onion powder, paprika, salt and pepper. Stir until well mixed.
- Step 3
Add half of the melted butter mixture to the cereal mixture. Gently and thoroughly fold to combine. Add the rest of the melted butter mixture and stir until evenly coated. Taste and adjust seasonings.
- Step 4
Divide the mixture evenly across the prepared pans. Bake, stirring and switching racks every 15 minutes, until crisp and slightly darkened in color, about 1 hour. Cool completely on the pans on wire racks before serving (if you can wait that long). Store in an airtight container for up to 3 weeks.
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Save your parchment paper and bowl for melting butter and just use a roasting pan. Melt the butter in the pan as you heat up the oven to temp. Add the Worcestershire sauce, hot sauce, garlic powder, onion powder, paprika, salt and pepper to the roasting pan. Then add the cereal mix a little at a time to the butter and seasonings. Stir the amount until the mixture sounds wet. Stir every 15 min for 1 hour.
I have been making chex mix once a month in the fall for years in a super large roasting pan (yield fills a 2-gallon ziplock bag). About ten years ago, I substituted sunflower or light olive oil for the butter and haven’t looked back. I use a mix of 1-1/2 cups oil and 1/2 cup Worcestershire sauce to coat all the dry ingredients. My family’s favorite recipe uses 3-4 packets of ranch seasoning to flavor the mix.
Not enough butter. For 16 total cups of crunchy mixture, 1/2 cup barely coated. I double the mixture & then it finally covered. I used Siracha for heat & sweet paprika. Yummy!!
After reading others' notes, I doubled the butter mixture. I now think 1.5 would have been adequate. Twice the amount of butter sauce seemed to leave the final mix oversaturated and even a little soggy.
I fourpled this recipe. Quadrupled more appropriately. I like the sound of fourple. I added: 8oz Frank's hot sauce, 3T cayenne pepper, 1.5tsp smoked salt &fresh pepper, 8oz L&P Wsauce, 3tsp sweet smoked paprika, 2T each onion &garlic powder, 1tsp sea salt. Melt 6 sticks of butter in a sauce pot. Add all above and stir to combine. Put all your dry in a bin and drizzle the warm wet over the top, pausing half to stir, add the rest. Put in 2 big Al pans.Bake@275 x 75 min. Stir q 15min. Cool & store.
Comments say to double the liquid ingredients.
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