Lazy Sunday afternoon snack!
My boys have been bugging me to crack open the uncarved pumpkins on the porch and toast the seeds for them. I would have done it earlier, but I knew I would eat them all myself. :D I had never heard of pre-boiling them in salted water, but these are fabulous if you still have pumpkins hanging out! I got this recipe from:
http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/toasted_pumpkin_seeds/
Toasted Pumpkin Seeds Recipe
Ingredients
- One medium sized pumpkin
- Salt
- Olive oil
Method
1 Preheat oven to 400°F. Cut open the pumpkin and use
a strong metal spoon to scoop out the insides. Separate the seeds from
the stringy core. Rinse the seeds.
2 In a small saucepan, add the seeds to water, about 2 cups of
water to every half cup of seeds. Add a half tablespoon of salt for
every cup of water (more if you like your seeds saltier). Bring to a
boil. Let simmer for 10 minutes. Remove from heat and drain.
3 Spread about a tablespoon of olive oil over the bottom of a
roasting pan. Spread the seeds out over the roasting pan, all in one
layer. Bake on the top rack until the seeds begin to brown, 10-20
minutes. When browned to your satisfaction, remove from the oven and
let the pan cool on a rack. Let the seeds cool all the way down before
eating. Either crack to remove the inner seed (a lot of work and in my
opinion, unnecessary) or eat whole.
