Quality Tricks Chex Mix

This week is the NBA All Star game so in honor of my favorite NBA superhero Agent Zero I’m bringing you an easy to make treat that is delightfully snackable and probably somewhat healthy. I’m not sure about that. I didn’t do any type of nutritional testing but I did avoid using bacon fat so that’s something good.

First your going to need to get your ingredients together: Rice Chex Mix, Goldfish Pretzels, Garlic Bagel Chips, dry roasted peanuts, Worcestershire sauce, seasoned salt, garlic powder, chili powder, cajun spices and butter. Sometimes I add in hot sauce. Tapatio or Louisiana both work pretty good.

Quality Tricks Chex Mix - Ingredients

Put 9 cups of the Rice Chex into a big bowl. Usually these recipes ask you split that up with 3 cups of corn and 3 cups wheat but then you end up with 3 boxes of slightly empty cereal. I’d suggest picking the one you like best and just using that.

Quality Tricks Chex Mix - Add the Chex

Next add in a cup of the Goldfish pretzels, a cup of the peanuts and a cup of the garlic bagel chips smashed into very small pieces. You can either crumble them by hand or beat them with a hammer. The back of a spoon will work too.

Quality Tricks Chex Mix - Next peanuts, pretzels and bagel chips

Cut 6 tablespoons of butter.

Quality Tricks Chex Mix - Cutting the butter

Microwave it until it’s melted. 40-50 seconds.

Quality Tricks Chex Mix - Melting the butter

Make sure it’s nice and liquidated.

Quality Tricks Chex Mix - Liquid butter

Add in 2 tablespoons of Worcestershire Sauce, 1 teaspoon seasoned salt, 1 teaspoon cajun spices, 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder and 1/2 teaspoon chili powder. Give it a good stirring. If you plan on adding hot sauce add some now.

Quality Tricks Chex Mix - the herbs and spices

Pour and stir until you get everything evenly coated. You should be able to tell cause you’ll see the spicing glaze on the mix.

Quality Tricks Chex Mix - Pour and stir coating until everythings evenly coated

Heat the oven up to 250. Spread the mix thinly on a cookie sheet and put it in. Cook it for an hour.

Quality Tricks Chex Mix - Cooking the mix

Stir the mix and flip it over every 15 minutes. After an hour spread it out on paper towels and let it cool for fifteen minutes.

Quality Tricks Chex Mix - Stirring the finished product

Put it in a bowl and get to snacking! Please take a moment and note my sleeping cat. She’s not that into my cooking.

Quality Tricks Chex Mix - Unstoppable snacking

You can bag it up in ziplocs for future snacking. You can also mix in some M & Ms for a pretty awesome sweet/salty combination.

Quality Tricks Chex Mix - Sweet and Salty mixes

Pretty easy stuff. You can always substitute your own favorite spices. Get in the kitchen and see what you can come up with.

Good? Good!