10 Popcorn Recipes to Have for a Snack—Or Even for Dinner

When you've got options like miso soup, Thai curry, and brown-butter maple pecan, it's easy to count popcorn as a meal!

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Updated June 14, 2024
A blue bowl filled with homemade crispy chocolate popcorn.

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When it comes to snacks, popcorn is the perfect blank canvas, unlimited in its potential for experimenting with flavors salty, sweet, spicy, umami, and more. Popped kernels are wondrous little things, possessing fluff that's eager to soak up fat of any kind, while plenty of nooks and crannies greedily welcome salt and other seasonings; really, popcorn is just nature's way of efficiently delivering flavor bombs to our mouths in rapid succession, and for that service it should be honored.

As a tribute to this great food, we've put together 10 popcorn recipes you'll definitely want for your next movie night, get-together, or any time you need some creative and crunchy comfort.

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