Every year around this time, I get a craving for Chex Mix and go searching for a recipe. But all of them nowadays are microwave and alterations on the one I loved growing up. So, I’ve come up with my version below.
2 sticks unsalted butter
6 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
2 tablespoons Lawry’s seasoned salt
1 tablespoon onion powder
1 tablespoon garlic powder
4 cups each
Rice Chex
Corn Chex
Wheat Chex
Crispix
3 cups pretzel sticks
3 cups Gardettos snack mix
2 cups deluxe mixed nuts
Place butter in large roaster pan, and put into cold oven. Preheat oven to 250 degrees. While oven is heating and butter is melting in pan, mix together seasoned salt, onion powder, and garlic powder. Stir together cereals, pretzel sticks, snack mix, and nuts in very large bowl. Once oven is heated and butter has melted, sprinkle seasoning mix over butter and add the Worcestershire sauce, stir together until well mixed, then add cereal mixture and stir again. Bake for one hour, stirring well every 15 minutes. Store in an airtight container.
This makes a very large batch, but we go through it very quickly since we only make it around the holidays. I usually put a big jar of it in my father-in-law’s Christmas goodie basket as well.
