Craving Doritos popcorn or looking for a tasty vegan popcorn seasoning? This Doritos popcorn recipe is perfect for you! It’s also gluten-free and combines the best parts of salty, cheesy and crunchy to make it the ultimate movie snack!
This quick vegan snack can be put together in just a few minutes. You can mix together the dry seasoning mix ahead of time or in bigger batches and left in a jar or airtight container. I made this recipe for 4 servings in case you want to make a small batch or having a group over for movie night. Feel free to half the popcorn seasoning recipe or double it.
This low-calorie snack (120 calories per serving) is great to enjoy for a movie night or divided into smaller containers and brought with a packed lunch for a midday snack. For more vegan popcorn seasonings, check out my cookbook! As well as my vegan chocolate covered popcorn!
Related Recipe: Vegan Chocolate Covered Popcorn
VEGAN POPCORN SEASONING (DORITOS)
VEGAN | DAIRY-FREE | GLUTEN-FREE
The story goes that Orville Redenbacher started making popcorn at age 12. This shows what an easy, kid-friendly snack this is! Make a batch of this Doritos Popcorn and a batch of some sweet, chocolatey popcorn for the ultimate spread for a movie night or slumber party.
DORITOS POPCORN INGREDIENTS
- Popcorn kernels
- Garlic powder
- Ground cumin
- Paprika
- Chili powder
- Nutritional yeast
- Sea salt
- Vegan butter (or oil if you prefer)
DORITOS POPCORN INSTRUCTIONS
- Prepare popcorn using your preferred method. I have a popcorn air popping machine!
- Optionally, finely grind nutritional yeast, garlic powder, cumin, paprika, chili powder, and salt in a spice grinder. I find it helps coat the popcorn more evenly.
- On a large baking sheet, place popcorn. Pour melted vegan butter, and toss the popcorn to coat.
- Sprinkle the nutritional yeast mixture over the popcorn, and toss well to coat. Taste and add more salt, nutritional yeast or chili powder as needed.
FULL RECIPE DOWN BELOW
Vegan Popcorn Seasoning Recipe
- ½ cup popcorn kernels
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- ½ tsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp paprika
- ¼ tsp- ½ tsp chili powder (depending on your heat tolerance)
- 2 tbsp nutritional yeast
- 1 tsp sea salt
- ¼ cup melted vegan butter
- Prepare popcorn using your preferred method. I have a popcorn air popping machine!
- This step is optional, but I find it helps coat the popcorn more evenly. Finely grind nutritional yeast, garlic powder, cumin, paprika, chili powder, and salt in a spice grinder.
- On a large baking sheet, place popcorn. Pour melted butter, and toss with popcorn to coat.
- Sprinkle the nutritional yeast mixture over the popcorn, and toss well to coat. Taste and add more salt, nutritional yeast or chili powder as needed.
Hey, I’m Candice & welcome to The Edgy Veg! I veganize popular food recipes for vegans, plant-based diets, eco-conscious eaters & people who are trying to eat more plants over… y’know animals or by-products of animals. I hope you enjoy this tasty vegan recipe!
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I may have just licked my fingers! These spices were already in my cupboard. Great last minute treat!
Wow, talk about a new addiction. I’m not sure if I should give it a great rating or super great rating. I do not have an air popper,BWO I just sprinkled this over my popcorn in layer this dispersing this wonderful concoction more evenly. Thanks for the wonderfully crave satisfying popcorn.
Ah this was so delicious. I could have eaten the whole recipe to myself! I don’t have an air popper, always just oil pop on the stove and this was phenomenal. Great idea to the person who just keeps a bunch of this seasoning on hand. Will definitely be making this again!
Can you omit the oil/butter?
You’ll need something to stick the seasoning onto the popcorn, you could try using less!
You can spray it with soy sauce or tamari and omit the salt then sprinkle with the other seasonings.
I now proudly own a spice jar in my cabinet labeled ‘doritos’ for quick snacking access, and who says it has to be only for popcorn, the possibilities will certainly present themselves, thanks for the recipe! it sticks pretty well even without the oil/butter, if you want to omit that, you could 😉
Such an easy way to achieve my chip craving while being at home under quarantine. I had all of these things in my kitchen already
Hi Candice! All your recipes are 🔥…question, is the “oil” that goes over the popcorn melted vegan butter? (I ask because the Ingredients don’t list an “oil”). Thank you so much 😊
Hi Patti! You can use melted butter or oil! I used melted vegan butter, but I know some people might not have access to vegan butter, so I also included oil. Hope you enjoy the recipe!
Makes sense ..thank you!! I made it last night …SO GOOD!!!!
Thanks Patti! So glad you enjoyed it! Would you be able to rate this recipe 5 stars if you loved it? 5 Star reviews help me out 🙂
So…by oil do you mean the vegan butter (and I assume it is melted)? I don’t see any other option that makes sense in the ingredient list.
Oil or melted vegan butter can be used for the seasoning to stick. I recommend vegan butter though, but mentioned oil as an option in case a reader only has access to like coconut oil or something.
I’ve been thinking about Doritos all day. Get out of my brain and thanks.
I saw this took only 4 mins to make so I tried it last night for movie night and it was a great popcorn seasoning! I didn’t have cumin at home but I enjoyed it either way!