Homemade Chex Mix Variation Ideas

i like to throw some canned tuna in there.

Chunk light or albacore?

If you have a smoker or grill look up smoked homemade chex mix recipes on youtube. Smoking it adds a great layer of flavor.

My Chex mix rocks.

4 cups rice Chex
4 cups corn Chex
1 cup Cheerios
2 cups halves pecans
1 stick of butter
2.5 tbps lee perrins
2 tspn season salt
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp onion powder

Dump all dry ingredients in large round pyrex and mix with your hands

Melt butter add all spices and wooster and stir really good

Pour sauce over Chex and flip with spoon until all mixed

3 minutes in microwave; take out and stir with spoon

3 minutes stir

3 minutes

Shake bowl out over 2 overlapped rows of paper towels (like 5 towels on each row) and let it soak excess oil.

Transfer to air tight tupperware if there's any left after everyone starts picking at it.

You had me until microwave

I've seen tons of different things in there:

Cheez Its
Cheerios
Bugles
Wheat Thins
Mixed Nuts
Candied Nuts
M&Ms (plain and peanut)
Bagel Chips
Melba Toast
Goldfish

The possibilities are endless.

I like the oven method. I usually do a lot more woostershire, crystal or tabasco, and cayenne, to go along with the seasoned salt, garlic powder, onion powder, etc. I'll bake it for three hours total and mix once an hour. Butter and woostershire make everything better.

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I typically make it with hickory wood, but any light fruit woods such as apple, cherry, pecan, and maple work well. Every time I've made it there are no leftovers. People love it.

I actually have a batch in the oven while I'm making a few batches in the microwave.

The oven is better, but if you get the microwave method dialed in, nobody will notice.