Then you mix together a little melted butter, ginger stir-fry sauce, chili powder, ground cumin and salt. Sprinkle this over all.
Pour coated mixture onto a cookie sheet sprayed with Pam and bake at 250 degrees for 30 minutes or until crispy.
To serve, I put a small piece of wax paper into a small bowl. (Now, the wax paper really isn't necessary - but I like the way it makes it look - it makes feel like special, homemade snack mix).
I went to a Halloween Party last night and instead of taking a bottle of wine, I gave the hostess a hearty portion of snack mix in a cute little "sack." I had some extra skirt fabric that I had ordered and didn't like it enough to make a skirt out of it, so I used a square of that to make the "sack." I laid it flat and put 2 sheets of wax paper on the inside.
I then added a pile of the snack mix.
I wrapped it up with a piece of shiny brown ribbon.
I felt like it needed a hint of green, so I walked into our backyard and clipped a few sprigs from my cypress plant and it gave the little "sack" some life!
I loved this hostess gift because it was "homemade" (now, I know I used a box of this and a bag of that, but the fact that I mixed the sauce and baked it makes me feel 100% right in calling it "homemade") - and the wrapping just gave it that extra umph it needed.
I was thinking that this would make a great holiday gift for a neighbor or a teacher - even a friend. We all get overloaded (gladly so, by the way) with sweet goodies during the holiday season - cookies, cakes, pies, candies, etc. Wouldn't it be nice to give a serving of something that isn't oozing in sugar? Wrapped in cute holiday fabric with a pretty bow and some holly, it would be adorable! You can get well priced fabric at Hancock Fabrics.
So, here's the recipe:
Crisp and Tasy Snack Mix
2 cups Crispix corn and rice cereal
1 cup tiny pretzel twists
1/2 cup reduced fat wheat crackers (I use Wheat Thins)
1/2 cup reduced fat cheddar crackers (I use Cheese-Its)
1 1/2 TBS butter, melted
1 TBS ginger stir-fry sauce
1 tsp. chili powder
1 tsp ground cumin
1/4 tsp salt
Cooking spray
1. Preheat oven to 250 degrees.
2. Combine the first 4 ingredients in a bowl. Combine butter, stir-fry sauce, powder, cumin, and salt; drizzle over cereal mixture, tossing to coat. Spread mixture into jelly roll pan coated with cooking spray. Bake at 250 for 30 minutes or until crisp, stirring twice.
***I typically double the cereal mixture and quadruple the stir-fry sauce mixture - I like LOTS of flavor. I double it because everyone in my family loves this and doubling makes it last a bit longer.
Enjoy!
