I'm going to take this in a slightly different direction because this recipe has so much potential variety to it. The basics: Chex Mix (or for folks from Gen-X or earlier, Trash) is a snack recipe with a few specific features: 1. a mix of Chex or similar cereals, another grain based item like Cheerios, pretzel sticks or something similar, and possibly nuts 2. Butter and Worcestershire sauce as a core seasoning 3. Other spices, some of them salts, to get that salty snack vibe. Cooking: There are two common ways to cook (or more accurately, toast) this snack. 1. Oven: Preheat oven to 250 Melt the Marinade ingredients until warm and blended. Cover a large cookie sheet with foil. Pour all of the remaining ingredients on to the cookie sheet. Cover with the marinade so that it covers all of the dry ingredients evenly. Cook for 1 hour, turning every 15 minutes. 2. Crock Pot: Combine cereals and nuts and pretzels in crock pot. Mix melted butter and seasonings, Worcestershire and tobasco. Pour over mixture in crock pot. and toss lightly to coat. Do not cover! Cook on high for 2 hours, stirring well every 30 minutes. Turn to low and cook for 2 to 6 hours.
Ingredients: 1. Seasoning: ½ cup of butter, melted 4 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce ½ teaspoon garlic salt (use garlic powder for a lower sodium version), onion salt, (use onion powder for a lower sodium option) and seasoning salt. You can replace the last one with other options like creole seasoning, Greek seasoning, etc. 1 dash of Tabasco or cayenne (Omit this if you're using a hotter seasoning in place of the seasoning salt) 2. Main Ingredients: The classic mix is 1 cup each of Rice Chex, Wheat Chex, Corn Chex, Cheerios, pretzel sticks, and mixed nuts. The Cheerios can be replaced with Goldfish or cheese crackers or if you don't want to add more flavor oyster crackers will suffice too. You can substitute 2 cups of Crispix for the corn and wheat cereal, or use the small shredded wheat cereal for the Wheat Chex. I prefer sesame sticks to pretzels, and they substitute well. And if you don't like mixed nuts you can use peanuts, cashews, or pretty much whatever other nut you want to. If you have someone with a nut allergy you can add any of the other options into the mix. This is an area for a lot of expression, as the things can vary a lot, even getting away from Chex style cereals completely. Any questions? Sent from my HAL 9000 in transit to Jupiter _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
