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Nooch Popcorn is the perfect vegan and gluten free snack. Made with nutritional yeast and without oil, it is a great healthy recipe.
Since John is here and I still have 2 VERY large boxes full of chocolate and candy, I am pretty sure I am made up of mostly candy right now. Candy, burgers and fries.
Our agreement to eat healthy while we are apart came undone as soon as his plane landed in Toronto. We are making the most of this week of indulgence, which means it will be back to normal when he goes back to Vancouver tomorrow.
Now, it is time for me to come up with healthy snacks.
Coming up with healthy snacks is very hard for me to do. Actually, coming up with healthy peanut free snacks is what is hard. I want to bring my healthy snacks to school because I am always hungry throughout the day. But I can’t bring trail mix or most granola bars because of the nuts.
Popcorn is what is saving me from near starvation in my nut-free school.
Maybe a little dramatic, but it is definitely keeping me healthy. Before I would reach for a chocolate bar or a pack of gummy candy. But now that I made my eating healthy promise to my husband, I have been making this popcorn more and more.
If you saw the title and thought “what the heck is nooch?”, I am totally with you. A couple of months ago, I started following a bunch of healthy accounts on my Instagram and they were all talking about how much nooch they put on their foods. And how a veggie bowl is made 10x better with nooch. I needed to use the old Google to figure out what the heck nooch was, and how I could get my hands on some.
To save you the trouble of going on Google yourself, Nooch is what the cool kids call Nutritional Yeast. Actually, I think more people should start calling it nooch, because nothing about the word “Nutritional Yeast” sounds appealing to me. Certainly not something delicious to sprinkle on top of food.
But if you would just give it a try, I promise, you will be converted too.
When I asked my sister about whether or not she’s heard of Nutritional Yeast before she goes: Nooch? Oh yeah, I have been making Nooch Popcorn for a while now! It is so good.
Nooch Popcorn?? Somehow almost everyone I know has been making Nooch Popcorn for their go-to snack, and here I was in the dark. I had no idea it was so popular!
So in case you are like me and had no idea this snack existed, here is a super simple recipe so that you can fit in with the cool kids. Just make sure you never mention you put yeast in the popcorn. 😉 Nooch popcorn all the way.
Nooch Popcorn
Ingredients
- 1 Tbsp coconut oil
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/4 cup popcorn kernals
- 1/8 cup nutritional yeast
Instructions
- In a medium saucepan, melt the coconut oil on medium heat. Sprinkle with salt. Place 1 kernel in the middle of the pot and wait until it has popped.
- Once the kernel has popped, remove the saucepan from heat and pour in the remaining kernels. Shake the saucepan for around 30 seconds and return to heat.
- Continue to shake the saucepan while on the stove as the kernels start to pop. Only remove from heat once the kernels stop popping. Be careful not to let them burn! Sprinkle with nutritional yeast.
Bless google we would be so lost without it. I love popcorn as a snack and I must admit I have had it with Nutritional Yeast before and it is a great pairing. I found out about it a few years ago from a vegan friend of mine. Nutritional Yeast is the darling of the vegan world! It’s in lot’s of vegan recipes, they even have a vegan mac and cheese that uses it.
Ooh, I need to try vegan mac and cheese now! Thanks for the suggestion!
I have such a weakness for popcorn and I will be trying your recipe real soon !
I hope you do! Thanks Kathy!
I have never tried this so called yeast, but I am hearing a lot of great things about it, I think I must try!
You should definitely try it Lynda!!
Nutritional Yeast on popcorn sounds delish – and I have both!
Yess!! You must make it ASAP!
So, I feel like we can relate I’m full of candy and burgers too! My problem right now is wanting to snack at night, so I think this would be a great option for me! I also had to google nutritional yeast, and if it’s as tasty as it sounds, this may be my next go-to snack! Cant wait to try this.
Haha, I am glad I am not the only one who needed to google it!
I love that your popcorn has healthy and great ingredients! And I also love that I have everything in my cupboards already so I can make it tonight!
This is why I make this popcorn so often now 🙂
This sounds like a great afternoon snack to give the kiddos when they get home from school. I have never had Nutritional yeast, but will have to give it a shot.
You must! It is so good!
I agree, it’s so hard to find healthy snacks, especially without adding nuts to the mix! I love nuts… but I also LOVE popcorn! I’ll be making this soon for sure!
Yes! It is so good!! Thanks 🙂
Everything in this recipe looks healthy and coconut oil to these popcorn is so unique. Sure to be different while binging on.
Yes, it is so good! I love it as a healthy snack 🙂
I actually have never heard of nooch popcorn either but hey – it sounds like I would love it! Vegan, light and I would LOVE the slight coconut taste from the oil! Thanks for sharing!
You must try it then! It is such a great snack!
That sounds like a great snack. I sometimes get the munchies and this would be so much better than other foods that are high in calories and fat. And nooch is a super cool name. I agree with you it does sound better than nutritional yeast. I’ll be ordering some ASAP.
Yes, agreed!! Let me know how you like it!
I’m a huge popcorn fan and nutritional yeast is definitely a great flavor add without a lot of extra calories!!
Yes! It is so good on popcorn!
Oh I love popcorn! I can’t have it too much now that I’ve started Keto again but it’s nice healthy snack to choose 🙂 Love the idea of the nutritional yeast!
It is so good on popcorn!
Looks lovely and sounds so simple and delicious! Thanks for sharing the recipe :).
Thanks Daniela! It is so good 🙂
Nooch is definitely a new one for me but I’m definitely going to have to check it out! Thanks for sharing the great recipe and all that great info about nooch.
You must try it one of these days!
Love popcorn as a snack, now I have one more recipe to try my hands on. Love everything in this recipe.
Right? It is so simple too! Let me know if you give it a go!
I love homemade stove top popcorns. It’s one our favorite family snack. Love how you made this healthier by using coconut oil. I bet yeast gave so much flavor. I must try this.
I always make mine with coconut oil. You must try it!