Best Popcorn Soup Recipes

TOMATO SOUP WITH CHEDDAR DILL POPCORN AND REUBEN SALAD

Steps:

• Gather your ingredients.
• For the tomato soup: Peel onion and chop, crush the garlic and chop.
• In a soup pot over medium to medium-high heat, melt butter into EVOO, 2 turns of the pan. Add the onions and garlic to the pot, season with salt, pepper, pimenton, oregano or marjoram and red chili flakes. Partially cover and soften 5 minutes.
• Meanwhile, for the Reuben salad: In a mixing bowl, combine sour cream, ketchup, relish, Worcestershire, salt and pepper.
• Core and quarter the lettuce and thinly slice each quarter wedge.
• Stack and slice the deli meats and cheese into 1-inch wide strips.
• To the soup pot, add sugar or honey and stock and bring to boil for 5 minutes. Add stewed tomatoes and fire-roasted tomatoes, simmer 10 minutes more.
• Combine cheese powder with dill and celery seed.
• Pop the popcorn in paper bag, rolled up at the top, about 1/4 cup at a time, on high in microwave, about 2 1/2 minutes. (Or cook corn in 2 tablespoons oil in covered pot over medium-high heat.) Transfer popped corn to a large bowl and top with melted butter and a little salt. Toss with cheese and dill topping.
• Arrange the sliced lettuce on a large plate. Top with meats and cheese and dressing, then garnish with a few slices of deli pickles. Puree the soup with immersion blender. Stir cream if using into soup and serve. Place soup bowls alongside the soup.

CHEDDAR CHEESE POPCORN BEER SOUP

Steps:

• Add first 5 ingredients to heavy soup pot and lightly saute.
• Add remaining ingredients (using empty soup cans to measure the milk and beer) Heat to simmer.
• When serving, top each cup or bowl with generous handful of freshly popped, lightly salted, popcorn.

POPCORN SOUP (CORN CHOWDER)

Steps:

• Saute onion in butter with parsley flakes until onion is tender, about 8 minutes.
• Sprinkle flour over mixture and stir (will be lumpy). Slowly stir in the half and half until smooth and creamy. Add corn and cook until slightly thickened, about 5 minutes.
• Add salt and pepper to taste. To serve, ladle into bowls and garnish with popped corn.

POPCORN SOUP/ CORN CHOWDER

Steps:

• 1. Saute onion in butter with parsley flakes until onion is tender, about 8 minutes. Sprinkle flour over mixture and stir (will be lumpy). Slowly stir in the half and half until smooth and creamy. Add corn and cook until slightly thickened, about 5 minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste. To serve, ladle into bowls and garnish with popped corn.

PUMPKIN-POPCORN SOUP

Steps:

• In a medium saucepan, melt the butter over medium heat. Add the leeks and cook until wilted, about 5 minutes. Add the garlic, ginger and curry powder and cook, stirring, until fragrant, about 1 minute. Add 2 cups of the popcorn and toss to coat in the butter.
• Add the stock, pumpkin and heavy cream. Bring to a simmer. Cook until the leeks are very tender, the popcorn has dissolved away from the kernels and the kernels are softened, about 15 minutes.
• Puree the soup with a hand blender or in batches in a countertop blender. Stir in the lime juice and taste for seasoning, adding a little salt if necessary. Thin with up to 1/2 cup water, if desired. Serve in individual bowls with the remaining popcorn as a garnish.

POPCORN SOUP

Steps:

• In a large pot, melt 1 tablespoon butter over medium-low heat. Add onion, and sauté until translucent. Add celery, and continue cooking until celery is just soft on edges. Add bay leaf, popcorn and chicken stock. Cover, and reduce heat to low. Simmer until popcorn is very tender, 1 1/2 to 2 hours.
• Discard bay leaf. Place a fine sieve over a clean pot. Working in batches, use a blender to purée mixture as finely as possible. Transfer each batch to sieve, and press out as much liquid as possible; discard pressed purée remaining in the sieve.
• Place pot of sieved broth over medium-high heat. Add heavy cream and milk. Cut 5 tablespoons butter into pieces, and whisk in one piece at a time. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Serve hot.