Hot and sour manly popcorn

I love popcorn, but I’ve never been a big fan of sweet popcorn, and I do like spicy food.  So tonight a new TV dish was born.. Manly Salt and Vinegar and Chilli Popcorn

1. Handful of unpopped popcorn
2. Teaspoon of sunflower oil
3. Half teaspoon salt
4. Half teaspoon of whole black pepper corns
5. Half a dried birds eye chilli
6. A cap full of cider or sherry vinegar

Whack the popcorn and the oil into a big pan, give it a good shack about, and then put it on a hot ring.  Meantime grind up the salt, pepper and chilli in a morter and pestle until really fine.  The super fine salt will be absorbed much more easily than granular salt.

Once all the popcorn is popped, throw the ground up flavorings into the pan and with the lid on give it a good shake.  Tilt the pan over to one side and dump in the vinegar so it doesn’t land on the popcorn.  Hold the lid on and shake the pan so it all the popcorn gets coated in vinegar steamy goodness.

Now, if you ate it straight off, it would be a bit soggy, so take the lid off and give the whole pan a minute to dry out.  The metal is nice and hot, and given a minute or so it will soon crisp up.

Enjoy!

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