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Popcorn Salt Recipe (3 Ways)

Make your own popcorn salts to spice up your favorite movie night snack. Choose from Bacon Parmesan, Chocolate Wine, or Buffalo flavors (or try all 3!).
Step-by-step photos can be seen below the recipe card.
Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time2 hours
Total Time2 hours 10 minutes
Course: Snack
Cuisine: American
Servings: 16
Author: Becky Hardin

Equipment

  • Food Processor
  • Baking Sheet

Ingredients

Bacon Parmesan Salt

Buffalo Salt

Chocolate Wine Salt

  • 750 milliliters chocolate wine (1 bottle) - I used ChocoVine brand
  • 1 cup sea salt

Instructions

Bacon Parmesan Salt

  • Put all ingredients in a food processor and pulse until fully combined.
    1 cup iodized salt, ¼ cup cooked bacon crumbles, ¼ cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
    a food processor filled with popcorn salt.

Buffalo Salt

  • Preheat oven to 170°F (or the lowest setting on your oven).
  • Place all ingredients in a food processor and pulse until combined.
    2 tablespoons Buffalo Sauce, 1 tablespoon ranch seasoning, 1 cup` kosher salt
    a food processor filled with ingredients for a smoky bbq sauce.
  • Spread salt on a parchment lined baking sheet and bake for 2 hours. Every 30 minutes, flip the salt to make sure it doesn’t burn or meld together.
    a spatula is being used to stir a batch of granola on a baking sheet.
  • Put salt back into food processor and pulse once more. The salt should break up and form a finer consistency. Enjoy!
    A food processor filled with a mixture of popcorn and salt.

Chocolate Wine Salt

  • Preheat oven to 170°F or your oven’s lowest heat setting.
  • Pour bottle of wine into a medium saucepan and simmer on low heat until it reduces significantly and becomes a syrup. This might take 45 minutes to an hour. Take off of heat.
    750 milliliters chocolate wine
    a person pouring red wine into a pan, adding a sprinkle of salt.
  • Place salt and wine reduction in food processor and pulse until well combined. This mixture will be relatively sticky
    1 cup sea salt
  • Spread mixture on a parchment lined baking sheet and chop up as much as possible to spread the salt up.
  • Bake for 2 hours, flipping and chopping it every 30 minutes.
  • Once dried out, return the salt to a food processor and pulse. The salt should break up and form a thinner/more salt like consistency.
    a food processor filled with brown sugar and popcorn.

Notes

Recipe adapted from Chew Town.
Yield: Each recipe will yield approx. 1-1½ cups of seasoning. Use 1 tablespoon per 5 cups of popped popcorn.
  • Go for a good quality fine sea salt.
  • If you use flakes or rock salt you'll need to grid the salt further in a pestle and mortar or coffee grinder to get a finer consistency. If you are using the salt for another purpose (marinating meat etc) then you can keep it as it is.
  • You can easily adapt the flavors with different herbs, spices, sauces, and syrups.
  • If your flavor of choice is wet (wine, sauce or syrup) then you'll need to bake the salt in the oven to dry it out. 
  • Dry flavorings such as herbs and spices will be ready immediately.
  • Nutritional information is based on the bacon Parmesan salt.
Store the salts in sealed containers (the shelf life will depend on the flavorings you use).

Nutrition

Serving: 1tablespoon | Calories: 13kcal | Carbohydrates: 0.2g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 0.5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.02g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 4mg | Sodium: 7154mg | Potassium: 4mg | Sugar: 0.001g | Vitamin A: 14IU | Calcium: 18mg | Iron: 0.1mg