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Caramel Popcorn, No Sugar, Caramel using Jaggery and Dates Syrup

Jun 3, 2015 ยท Modified: Jan 7, 2025 by Priya_Srinivasan ยท

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It is already June now, days just whizzed by!! It was only yesterday we were all wishing Happy New year and 6 months just flew!! phew, what did we achieve in this 6 months, how many of us followed their New year resolution or still following? I just had one and i m sticking with it, Exercise and have fun. I cannot stick to a diet, i cannot diet, the word diet itself makes me weak. 
I train myself to eat healthy, i try to keep away from junk, and  try to find healthier options for foods we like. For the first week of BM#53, i took the theme : Movie Snacks. The first thing that pops in our mind is Popcorn!! We kind of have a fascination for Garret Caramel Popcorn.  We have an outlet at Dubai mall, that is so far far away, but whenever we visit we make sure to have  a pack of it. 

I wanted to recreate the same recipe at home. While googling for recipe, all of them had sugar and corn syrup and the ones without corn syrup and using honey, failed to have that attractive caramel color. So, i went on to do my one, instead of sugar i used jaggery powder and for corn syrup i substituted with dates syrup. The resulting caramel had a beautiful color. The final corn too was so crisp and the taste was spot on!!! 

Ingredients

ยฝ cup corn (un-popped)
2 teaspoon oil

For the caramel
ยฝ cup butter
1 cup powdered jaggery
ยผ cup Dates syrup
ยฝ teaspoon salt
ยฝ teaspoon vanilla extract
ยผ teaspoon baking soda

Method

Popping the corn
  • Heat a  heavy-bottom wide pan, add oil, when the oil heat ups, add the corn and close the pan with a lid. Reduce the flame to simmer.
  • The popping will start and once it starts to slow down and almost no popping for โ…” seconds, then switch off the flame and let it sit for another 5 seconds covered.
  • Remove the lid. If planning to have plain butter popcorn, then add 2-3 tablespoon of ghee and salt, mix well. Serve immediately.

To Make Caramel Popcorn

  • Remove the popped corn into two separate baking sheets, i used two large aluminium takeaway pans.
  • In the same pan which i made popcorn, i made the caramel too.  To the hot pan, add butter, jaggery and date syrup. Stir well. Reduce the flame to simmer.
  • It will thicken immediately. When butter melts completely. the sauce will become of pouring consistency all brown and slippery. Remove it from flame. Add vanilla extract, salt and baking soda. The sauce would foam a bit after adding baking soda. Stir well.
  • Carefully using tongs, take the pan and divide the sauce among the two baking trays of popcorn. To achieve even pouring, use a ladle and  pour in a wiggly fashion once horizontally and again vertically.  Toss and Mix well or use a ladle to  evenly coat the popcorn. 
  • Preheat the oven to 100C (250F), bake the pop corn for an hour, taking out after every 15 minutes and mixing them well. 
  • After an hour of baking, let them cool completely in the tray, by this time, they will be non-sticky and you will hear nice crunchy sound when tossed in the tray. 
  • Once cooled, store them in an air-tight container. They make great gifts too. Just put them in candy bags, wrap a nice ribbon around and make sure to put a note that it is home-made, i bet the love will be felt even more!!!

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  1. Unknown

    June 03, 2015 at 7:24 pm

    very healthy twist of caramel popcorn...mouth watering snack...

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  2. Suma Gandlur

    June 03, 2015 at 7:38 pm

    Love the jaggery-date usage to make the coating for this popcorn. Looks perfect and bet tasted great too.

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  3. MySpicyKitchen

    June 03, 2015 at 7:48 pm

    beautiful pictures and the popcorn looks very good on that blue board. Hmm, this was the syrup you mentioned in your instapic. I did not guess it and was thinking about a traditional Indian sweet with jaggery syrup.. ๐Ÿ™‚

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  4. Rajani S

    June 04, 2015 at 2:12 am

    Havent stuck to any of my resolutions :D. In fact I have a decade's resolutions to catch up with ๐Ÿ˜€ :D..
    I have never tried caramel pop corn and this looks delicious.

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  5. Sandhya Ramakrishnan

    June 04, 2015 at 3:05 am

    How lovely they look and I am just drooling over your pictures! Love how you have made caramel with jaggery. I am very tempted to make this and try to make caramel popcorn ๐Ÿ™‚

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  6. Rafeeda AR

    June 04, 2015 at 5:41 am

    That looks ah-ma-zing!!! Seriously... where did you get those cups from? So lovely...

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  7. Srivalli

    June 04, 2015 at 6:09 am

    Priya, those caramel popcorn look so fantastic..last time I made, I used brown sugar and popped it along it...I didn't bake it again..will try this way too..

    Reply
  8. Harini R

    June 04, 2015 at 4:31 pm

    Jaggery and date syrup is a brilliant combo. Love it!

    Reply
  9. The Pumpkin Farm

    June 04, 2015 at 5:57 pm

    loved the way u presented it...my favorite flavor of popcorn

    Reply
  10. Priya Suresh

    June 05, 2015 at 2:37 pm

    Lovely take off with jaggery and date syrup, incredible they are..

    Reply
  11. Chef Mireille

    June 07, 2015 at 2:05 pm

    perfectly coated popcorn...looks factory produced

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  12. Archana

    June 07, 2015 at 2:19 pm

    Wow perfect popcorn. You girls are so lucky to get these corn to make the popcorn.

    Reply
  13. Kalyani

    June 07, 2015 at 4:34 pm

    I made a caramel version and it didn't go too well.. Bookmarking to try this out ๐Ÿ™‚

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  14. sushma

    June 07, 2015 at 9:36 pm

    My son would love it.

    Reply
  15. Varada's Kitchen

    June 08, 2015 at 1:56 am

    They look perfect. They are the perfect shade of golden brown and look so crunchy.

    Reply
  16. Unknown

    June 08, 2015 at 4:51 pm

    My favourite I through caramel with sugar but using jaggery and date syrup is very interesting...

    Reply
  17. Pavani

    June 10, 2015 at 3:44 pm

    So yummy -- perfectly made caramel popcorn. Love your healthy ingredients substitutions.

    Reply
  18. Padmajha

    June 14, 2015 at 9:57 am

    I need this now Priya.Am a huge fan of caramel popcorns but never tried it at home.Love the ingredients that u have used to make the caramel..

    Reply
  19. Sowmya :)

    June 24, 2015 at 3:39 am

    Jaggery in popcorn?! Never thought of it but now it looks like I have to try it at the earliest...beautiful pics!

    Reply
  20. veena

    June 24, 2015 at 4:08 pm

    This will be tried soon. I love this

    Reply
  21. Sneha's Recipe

    June 28, 2015 at 6:19 pm

    Tempting and yummy popcorn.

    Reply

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