Best Furikake Chex Mix Recipe — Crunchy, Salty, Sweet and Umami-Loaded

Candy, salty, savory, crunchy, addictive furikake Chex combine — “you may’t cease consuming it,” says meals stylist Caroline Hwang. This model of the Hawaiian snack — buttery and tossed with umami-loaded seaweed and sesame seeds — is customized from her recipe, which was handed to her from a longtime good friend in New York, Corey Chow, former chef de delicacies at Thomas Keller’s Per Se.

Chow, now government chef at Stanwich Membership in Greenwich, Conn., says it’s his mother’s recipe — he grew up consuming the traditional snack after basketball observe in San Gabriel. And Tina Chow, his mother, obtained it from a Japanese American neighbor. Every time it’s handed off, it will get tweaked. As a result of furikake Chex combine is extremely adaptable to swimsuit a matrix of tastes. (See additionally Genevieve Ko’s version.)

However there are a couple of key components to Tina Chow’s tweaks, which stay intact within the recipe under: She elevated the quantity of furikake seasoning and soy sauce by loads and added slightly extra gentle corn syrup (Hwang and this model name for brown syrup as an alternative). “I baked it longer to provide it extra crunch,” she stated. With the added syrup, “it might be actually crunchy and darkish and excellent and extra furikake would keep on with the cereal.”

Hwang changed a number of the cereal with the Korean snack Orion-brand Turtle Chips, a crispy, ethereal, four-layer corn chip out there at many Asian markets (Bugles are an excellent substitute; you would use potato chips). She additionally replaces a number of the cereal with pretzel sticks. In The Instances take a look at kitchen we added pecans — and so they turned out virtually furikake-candied.

The result’s an particularly crunchy, intensely flavored combine that’s the final in snacking. “It’s truly an awesome snack for beer,” Corey Chow stated.