Something Yummy, Something Spicy, Something Healthy: Your Pick Of The Easy-To-Make Super Bowl TV Snacks

Whether you know it or not, tonight is the big Super Bowl night…

The US of A are excited beyond belief and have been prepping snack food for the big event for the past week. So, even if the Super Bowl is the last thing we’d watch on earth, we thought it was the perfect excuse to make a little snack food for ourselves too…

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The Something Spicy

Prep Time: 15 mins

Cooking Time: 40 mins

Serves 4

Ingredients

12 whole chicken wings

3 ounces unsalted butter

1 small clove garlic, minced

1/4 cup hot sauce

1/2 teaspoon salt

Method

Place a saucepan with a steamer basket and 1-inch of water in the bottom, over high heat, cover and bring to a boil.

Remove the tips of the wings and discard or save for making stock. Using kitchen shears, or a knife, separate the wings at the joint. Place the wings into the steamer basket, cover, reduce the heat to medium and steam for 10 minutes.

Remove the wings from the basket and carefully pat dry. Lay the wings out on a cooling rack set in a half sheet pan lined with paper towels and place in the fridge for 1 hour.

Preheat the oven to 220 degrees.

Replace the paper towels with parchment paper. Roast on the middle rack of the oven for 20 minutes. Turn the wings over and cook another 20 minutes or until meat is cooked through.

While the chicken is roasting, melt the butter in a small bowl along with the garlic. Pour this along with hot sauce and salt into a bowl large enough to hold all of the chicken and stir to combine.

Remove the wings from the oven and transfer to the bowl and toss with the sauce. Serve warm. Yummy!

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The Something Yummy

Prep Time: 15 mins

Cooking Time: 5 mins

Serves 6

Ingredients

1 can refried beans

2 tablespoons hot sauce

Extra-virgin olive oil, for drizzling

4 scallions, cut into 1 inch pieces

1 jar green chili or tomatillo salsa

2 tablespoons chopped cilantro, a palm full, chopped

1 can black beans

2 teaspoons ground cumin

1 jar chipotle salsa

2 cups sour cream

1 lime, zested and juiced

2 ripe avocados

2 cloves garlic, finely chopped

1 lemon, juiced

1 jalapeno, seeded and finely chopped

Salt

2 plum tomatoes, diced

Pimiento stuffed jumbo Spanish olives, chopped

Tortilla chips, buy 2 bags of different varieties.

Method

Heat refried beans in small non-stick pan over medium heat and season with hot sauce. Transfer the beans to a small, deep casserole dish. Scrape pan clean with rubber spatula and return to heat.

Add a little extra-virgin olive oil to the pan and raise heat to high. When the oil smokes, add the scallions and sear them, 2 to 3 minutes. Add green salsa to scallions and heat through. Add cilantro, remove salsa from heat, and layer on top of the beans.

Return the same pan to the stove, lower heat to medium and add black beans, heat through and season with cumin, layer on top of the green salsa.

Top the black beans with a layer of chipotle salsa. Mix sour cream the lime zest and juice and spread on top of the chipotle salsa.

Combine the meat of 2 ripe avocados with garlic, lemon juice, jalapeno and salt to form a chunky guacamole. Top the salsa with guacamole. Garnish the dip with the final layer of diced tomatoes and sliced olives.

How many layers can your dip have?

The Something Healthy

Prep Time: 10 mins

Serves 4

Ingredients

Two carrots, thinly sliced diagonally

1 cucumber, thinly sliced diagonally

1/2 head iceberg lettuce, cut into 2 1/2-inch chunks

1 cup grape or cherry tomatoes

Blue cheese dressing, for serving

Method

Thread the carrots, cucumber, lettuce and tomatoes onto 4 long wooden skewers, alternating the vegetables. Refrigerate. Serve with the dressing.