Protein Popcorn

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Popcorn is a low-calorie filling snack, but protein popcorn is even more nourishing, packed with 12 grams of protein per serving and only 96 Calories.

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It’s quick snack time! Picture this: you want to watch TV, but you don’t want empty calories. Popcorn is the classic treat, but you don’t want all the salt or sugar of ready-made popcorn. And you want some protein, if possible.

When I find myself there, I make my protein popcorn. It’s popcorn with protein powder! It’s a great alternative to Protein Trail Mix or Banana Protein Balls and it’s ready in under 5 minutes!

While the whole recipe is just below, don’t miss all my tips further down, including ingredient swaps, my cooking tips, and step-by-step shots!

Protein Popcorn

Popcorn is a low-calorie filling snack, but protein popcorn is even more nourishing, packed with 12 grams of protein per serving and only 96 Calories.

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Prep Time: 5 minutes

Total Time: 5 minutes

Course: Snack

Cuisine: American

Servings: 2 servings

Calories: 96.2 kcal

Instructions

Pop 1/3 cup of popping corn in a microwave silicone popcorn maker.

Transfer the 5 cups of air-popped corn to a large mixing bowl, spray some oil all over, sprinkle vanilla protein powder, cinnamon, and salt, and toss to coat. Spray more oil if the powder doesn’t stick well to the popcorn.

Store leftovers in an airtight container in the pantry for up to 1 week.

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Nutrition

Serving: 1serving | Calories: 96.2kcal | Kilojoules: 403KJ | Carbohydrates: 5.5g | Protein: 11.7g | Fat: 3.3g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1.3g | Trans Fat: 0.01g | Sodium: 80.8mg | Potassium: 83.9mg | Fiber: 0.5g | Sugar: 0.9g | Vitamin A: 4.7IU | Vitamin C: 0.02mg | Calcium: 97.7mg | Iron: 0.1mg | Magnesium: 9.6mg | Phosphorus: 51.2mg | Zinc: 0.1mg

Ingredients and Substitutions

This paragraph gives you all my tips about picking the right ingredients. For the full recipe with measurements, scroll to the recipe card at the bottom of the post!Go to Full Recipe

Popping Corn – There are many different kinds of popping corn, with varying kernel sizes. I go for the more organic and non-GMO ones.

Vanilla Protein Powder – Pick your favorite protein powder, I use either NuZest or MacroMike.

Cinnamon – For flavor.

Oil Spray – To allow the protein powder to stick to the popcorn.

How to Make Protein Popcorn

If you know how to make popcorn, you’re most of the way to making protein popcorn.

Place your popping corn in your popcorn-making jar.

Close the jar and microwave the popcorn until it pops.

Spray some oil on the popcorn and add the cinnamon, protein powder, and salt.

Work the popcorn with your hands to make sure they’re all covered in protein powder.

Flavoring

You can flavor this recipe in many ways:

Use a different flavor of protein powder: chocolate for chocolate popcorn, strawberry and vanilla for a strawberry and cream flavor.

Add crushed freeze-dried raspberries to the protein powder.

Add a drizzle of melted chocolate on the top.

Spread some runny peanut butter over the popcorn.

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Hi, I’m Carine, the food blogger, author, recipe developer, photographer, and published author of a cookbook and founder of The Conscious Plant Kitchen with my husband Damien.
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