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Home ยป Nut Buttery Popcorn / Almond Butter Popcorn (gluten free w/ low-carb option)

Nut Buttery Popcorn / Almond Butter Popcorn (gluten free w/ low-carb option)

by Adrienne 38 Comments Published March 27, 2011 Updated: May 16, 2020

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Caramel Popcorn with Nuts Recipe

Looking for kid-friendly, budget friendly, and healthy snack ideas?

Well, if you have been reading my blog for awhile, you know how much our family loves popcorn.

So you will understand why, since seeing the original recipe for "Peanut Butter Popcorn" on Frugal Granola's site, I was determined to make it work for our family.  Since my oldest son has a life-threatening allergy to peanuts and we are off most sugars, the recipe needed some altering.

Well, after one botched batch, we got a winner!  And we have made it a number of times since -- we even took it to a potluck and it was a big hit.

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I have eagerly added it to our family's repertoire of "healthy fast food options" for our home.  You know...those times when your day has completely gotten away from you and/or a number of things have gone wrong and you would order out for a pizza but you can't (we have a son with life-threatening food allergies who is also gluten free)?

That kind of a day.

We had one of those yesterday.  I had had little sleep, my oldest son (the one with Asperger's) was having quite a bit of anxiety, and I had a guest post for another blog that I was working on when....that's right....it was dinner time.  So to give Mom a break we heated up steamed carrots, pulled out some preservative-free hotdogs and heated up the popcorn popper.

(This popper is really great.  Your kids will have a great time helping in the kitchen and it's stainless steel, not aluminum, which is a sturdier and I think, better option for a healthy kitchen.)

 

 

Stainless Steel Hand Crank Popcorn Popper

We LOVE our Stainless Steel Hand-Crank Popper!

Between the healthy coconut oil and the homemade nut or seed butter and the organic popcorn, it really is a nice option for a fast meal or snack - - and the kids love it too!

Variation of this Almond Butter Popcorn

There are 2 ways to make this, as you can also use 16 cups of popcorn instead of eight.  We've made it this way a number of times and the sweetness is still enough to make it a great treat.  You will love it!

Recipe Notes

  • Almond butter is particularly scrumptious, but any nut or seed butter will work - see Homemade Nut or Seed Butter.
  • You can substitute any healthy sweetener for the xylitol, but omit the water if using a liquid sweetener (see this post for more tips on substituting sweeteners. 1/3 cup honey or maple syrup are good options if you are not watching sugar intake - see Choosing Maple Syrup.
  • Although nuts taste better with this popcorn, you can substitute seeds if necessary. Have your nuts be soaked and dried if possible.

Nut Buttery Popcorn / Almond Butter Popcorn

 
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Course: Dessert, Snack
Cuisine: Dairy-Free, Gluten-Free, Vegan

Ingredients

  • 1/3 cup xylitol
  • 1/4 cup water
  • 2/3 cup nut or seed butter
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 3/4 cup nuts (optional) (chopped or whole)
  • 8 cups popped popcorn (I use organic)

Instructions

  • Heat sweetener and water (if using) in a small pan over medium heat just until it begins to boil.  Quickly add nut or seed butter (you will want to have this pre-measured), vanilla and salt.  Stir continuously over heat until well blended.  Remove from heat, add nuts and stir.  (Hint:  You want this mixture to be pourable.  Too thick and you will have a hard time coating the popcorn.)
  • Immediately pour over popcorn and stir to coat.  The topping will be hot at first, so be careful with your hands!
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For more tips on making popcorn that tastes great from a family that makes a lot of it, visit my post on Basic Homemade Popcorn. You also may want to check out my post on why popcorn can help any family's budget.

And if you want to add to your popcorn repertoire, check out some of my other homemade popcorn seasonings.

Like this one, which is a great popcorn topping that arose out of a kitchen mistake!

And this wonderful popcorn topping, made of Herbes de Provence with other seasonings.  Every time we make these we are asked for the recipes!

I hope you like them as much as we do!

Do you have a favorite popcorn topping to share?

 
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Adrienne Urban is the Founder and Owner of Whole New Mom. She has a background in research, journalism, insurance, employee benefits, financial markets, frugal living, and nutrition. Seeking a better life for herself and her family, she uses research and consults with many physicians and other practitioners to find solutions to the variety of issues they have dealt with including life-threatening food allergies and thyroid and adrenal concerns. WholeNewMom.com is the result of her experiences and knowledge gained throughout the process. Posts are reviewed and verified by the Whole New Mom team.

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  1. Pam Skaggs

    February 23, 2018 at 12:40 pm

    Hi, I never leave comments on blogs but I ran across your blog and saw you had Candida but ate popcorn??? That is a huge NO for anyone really following a Candida diet, I miss popcorn, it was my favorite snack but it's on the top of the list of foods to avoid for Candida, right up there with peanuts! Full of mold. Pam

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    • Adrienne

      February 23, 2018 at 1:01 pm

      Hi Pam. Thanks for reading and for writing.

      Yes, we have candida and yes we eat popcorn sometimes.

      This is a direct quote from a physician who wrote this post for my blog:https://wholenewmom.com/health-concerns/candida-fighting-foods-candida-diet/

      Popcorn is perfectly fine to eat on the Candida diet, and Iโ€™ll tell you why. Because it satisfies a desire. Itโ€™s very important to bear that in mind. I read so much crap on the internet about you canโ€™t eat this and you canโ€™t eat that. These are the diet police out there saying, โ€œDonโ€™t eat this. Donโ€™t eat that. You can eat that. This will cause Candida to grow.โ€ Thereโ€™s so much garbage on the internet. All this stupid advice by people whoโ€™ve never seen patients with Candida. They might have had a bad experience themselves eating rancid popcorn from those stupid packages you put in the microwave, which is a dumb thing to do.

      Maybe you would like to contact him with your concern and then let me know if he has changed his mind since then.

      Maybe you can have some now :). I do watch portions closely and we are doing a new healing protocol that hopefully will help us have even more food freedom. I do avoid peanuts almost all the time, but occasionally I have a few. I ate some on a flight once because there were no other options and it was a 3 hour or more flight....

      I personally am of the mindset that avoiding foods can be a danger to people but will be looking into more things as our new healing protocol starts. From what I can tell the goal of the program isn't more restriction, but less, as long as one is following a whole food diet.

      Thanks and hope that clarifies things.

      Reply
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