Tijuana Trash - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    2 cups tortilla chips, broken into 1 inch pieces (I like to use small Tostitos and break them in half)
    1 1/2 cups Crispix cereal or 1 1/2 cups Corn Chex
    4 -5 cups popped popcorn
    6 ounces nuts, of choice (I like Spanish peanuts and almonds)
    4 tablespoons light corn syrup
    4 tablespoons butter
    4 tablespoons brown sugar
    3/4 tablespoon chili powder
    1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon
    1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
Preparation
    Preheat oven to 250 degrees F.
    Combine tortilla chips, cereal, popcorn and nuts in a large roasting pan.
    (Lining the pan with foil first helps the clean-up later--).
    Combine corn syrup, butter, brown sugar, chili powder, cinnamon and cayenne pepper in a small saucepan and heat to boiling.
    Pour over the cereal-popcorn mixture in the pan; stir to coat thoroughly.
    Bake uncovered 1 hour, stirring every 20 minutes.
    Remove from oven and turn onto a sheet of waxed paper to cool.
    will keep in an airtight container for about 2 weeks.

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