Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Taco Pick-Up-Sticks Snack Mix

French fried onions, tater sticks, as well as peanuts ... oh my!  Bake them upwardly amongst delicious homemade taco seasoning as well as you lot convey Taco Pick-Up-Sticks Snack Mix, an addictive as well as tasty taco snacking treat.


You know those French fried onions that come upwardly inwards a niggling can?  Well, they're non only for light-green edible bean casserole!  Nope.  They're also 1 of the star ingredients inwards this tasty niggling taco-spiced snack mix.  And, man, is this materials addictive.

I convey to acknowledge that I am a Chex Mix addict.  I've loved the materials since wayyyyyyyyyyy earlier you lot could purchase it pre-made inwards the grocery stores.  Remember those days of making your ain at home??  I nonetheless whip upwardly my ain batch every at in 1 lawsuit as well as then, since I dear the gustation fifty-fifty to a greater extent than than I dear the store-bought kind.

And at in 1 lawsuit I convey a new snack mix to add together to my make-at-home list.

This super slowly as well as tasty Taco Pick-Up-Sticks Snack Mix, made amongst the addictive combination of ...


... these 2 goodies.


Yes, French Fried Onions, it's fourth dimension to boot light-green edible bean casserole to the curb as well as dive inwards to a large ol' batch of taco snack mix!  {I intend you'll live happier here.}

Now, let's beak taco.

While working on this recipe, I tried it amongst the originally-suggested packaged taco seasoning as well as amongst my ain homemade taco seasoning.


The married adult man as well as I liked the homemade seasoning version sooooooooooo much better!  It was no contest, really.

And a homemade seasoning mix is thence slowly to whip up, amongst spices you lot nearly probable already convey on hand.  I dear that the homemade materials has less salt, too.  Bonus all around!


Now, wouldn't this snack mix live only perfect amongst a beer??  Well, hither you lot go!


Hmmmmmmm ... Was Beer Popcorn non the form of beer you lot were thinking?

While sure enough non the liquid kind, Beer Popcorn from my friends at Tastebuds as well as Taco Pick-Up-Sticks Snack Mix would nonetheless live a fabulous snack pairing!


Taco Pick-Up-Sticks Snack Mix
Source:  Adapted from Pass the Plate, First Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, NC


Ingredients
  • 2 (5 oz.) cans tater sticks
  • 1 (6 oz.) can French fried onions
  • 1 c. dry-roasted peanuts
  • 1/2 c. butter, melted
  • 2 tsp. onion powder*
  • 1 tsp. chili powder
  • 1/2 tsp. ground cumin
  • 1/4 tsp. salt
  • 1/4 tsp. garlic powder
  • 1/4 tsp. dried oregano
  • 1/8 tsp. cayenne pepper
Directions
  1. In a large bowl, combine tater sticks, onion rings, as well as peanuts. In a pocket-sized bowl, whisk together melted butter, onion powder, chili powder, cumin, salt, garlic powder, oregano, as well as cayenne pepper. Pour butter mixture over tater sticks mixture as well as toss to coat.
  2. Spread mixture evenly on 2 ungreased jelly coil pans. Bake at 250 degrees for xl - 45 minutes, stirring every xv minutes. Cool.
  3. Store inwards an airtight container.
* If you lot don't convey onion pulverization on hand, you lot tin utilisation dried minced onion identify 2 teaspoons minced onion inwards a plastic baggie as well as shell fine amongst a meat mallet.