Homemade Chex Mix Recipe

5 from 1 vote

Homemade Chex Mix Recipe

Forget bland, boring snacks – this Chex Mix recipe is a bold, flavorful explosion in every bite, with a crunchy-salty flavor and texture. Grab a bowl, and get ready to rediscover the joy of a snack that's both classic and crazy-good. It'll keep you coming back for seconds (and thirds). This is a huge, delicious batch with lots to share!

Prep Time10

Cook Time5

Roasting and cooling time3

Total Time3 15

Course: Snack

Cuisine: American

Servings: servings

Calories: 352Kcal

Author: Susan Moncrieff

Equipment

1 Large Roasting pan that will hold 3 boxes worth of cereal.

Ingredients

Cereal and Snack Mix

1 box Chex cereal - wheat
1 box Chex cereal - corn
1 box Cheerios Large box
1 lb cocktail peanuts
1 lb pretzels the smaller twist ones or the sticks

The Seasoning Mix

½ lb butter two sticks
½ cup vegetable or canola oil
1 tablespoon celery salt can substitute onion salt
1 tablespoon garlic salt
1 tbsp seasoned salt I like Lawry's
5 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce

Instructions

Preheat oven to 250℉
I use a large roasting pan to mix and heat. Or, foil pans are also an option.
Mix all ingredients under the label of Cereal and Snack Mixture.
In a saucepan, melt butter. Add oil. Then add all the ingredients under Seasonings. Heat on low for 5 minutes, stirring often.
Not all of the seasonings will dissolve into the butter and oil mixture.
Cool for 5 minutes then using a large spoon, drizzle oil and seasoned mixture over cereal mixture. I usually do ⅓ of the oil and seasoning mixture, mix well into the cereal mixture and repeat two more times.
Place in the 250℉ oven for 1 hour, mixing every 15 minutes.
Turn off oven and leave mixture in oven for 2 or so hours, stirring occasionally. I leave it in the oven overnight to cool!
Once cooled to room temperature, package in gallon-sized zip-closing bags. Or, if you have large food storage containers that close, that works too!

Notes

Storage

1. Use that big metal popcorn container you kept from last year.
2. Any large food container.
3. Gallon sized closable plastic bags (like Ziplock)

I put mine in batches into gallon-sized closable plastic bags. Even if you put your bits and bites in a large container, I recommend plastic zip-type bags. It just helps keep the flavors in and prevents staleness. If you keep them sealed, they will last about a week. If you can store your snacks in a cooler area, I have kept mine for up to 2 weeks.

Nutrition (I am not a nutritionist. These are estimates only)