It’s all about VARIETY !! I love to play with a recipe and made this variation of the Ranch Pretzels in an earlier post. Keeping with the same taste of that addicting ‘Hurricane Popcorn’, which uses butter and furikake on the popcorn, I decided to do this:
1 container UTZ honey wheat pretzels (or 3-4 pkgs of the Rold Gold)
1 cup popcorn oil
1/2 pkg Hidden Valley Dressing dry mix
1 T garlic powder
5 T furikake
Use the same instructions for the Ranch Pretzels. I used half of the dressing mix and garlic powder so not overpower the taste of the furikake. Dill is a lot stronger in the original recipe, which complements more garlic powder and the ranch flavoring. I also ground up the furikake in a food processor to make the furikake a finer texture, making it a bit easier to stick to the pretzel. My first batch (yes, I made it several times) used less oil, and the pretzel soaked the oil so fast, that it didn’t give enough ’sticking’ power for the furikake. After it dried, the furikake would fall off so easily. So the proportions that I use now works out better.
The flavor is really ono ! Gee, I wonder how it would be with barbecue flavoring, like the barbecue potato chips…nah, I think I will stick to the two !
Lodee Says:
February 18th, 2008 at 1:34 amVisit Lodee
This is such an ono variation of those popular pretzels!! The original version is so ono, but I think this one comes very close to it, maybe even better!!
Lindy Says:
February 18th, 2008 at 1:54 amVisit Lindy
The original version is addicting, but I feel that the ‘younger ones’ who usually like furikake on everything really like this one. Thanks for your comments and for being so loyal to my site !