How do you make pumpkin seeds?!


Question:

How do you make pumpkin seeds?


i save the seeds from the pumpkin, my seeds never turn out when I bake them in the oven.


Answers: Here's how I do mine~

Rinse pumpkin seeds immediately after you remove them from the pumpkin (so they are easier to wash).
Make sure to remove all the pulp.
Drain pumpkin seeds in a strainer.
Spread out on paper towels to dry overnight. (it's very important to not forget this step! Leave 'em overnight!)

Preheat oven to 250 F.
Line a baking sheet with foil.

Toss pumpkin seeds in olive oil, butter, or just spray them with cooking spray.
Sprinkle with salt, or if you like different seasonings you can add garlic powder, onion powder, seasoned salt, cayenne pepper, or just about any dry seasoning. Toss to coat.

Bake about 1 hour, tossing every 15 to 20 minutes, until a nice golden brown.

Allow the seeds to cool completely.
I store them in an airtight container at room temperature.
They will "keep" up to 3 months or you can refrigerate them up to 1 year.

****note: If you like your seeds extra-salty--- after they are completely rinsed and clean--- soak them overnight in a solution of 1/4 cup salt to 2 cups of water. Dry an additional day, then proceed as above. ****

Hope that's helpful! Good Luck! you pan-cook them http://allrecipes.com/howto/roasting-pum... deep fry I always put them in a bowl with vegetable oil, coat them, then coat them on salt, put them in an even layer on a cookie sheet with foil, and stick them in the oven. Clean the pumpkin seeds and put Olive oil and salt on them. Them will turn brown, not to dark, and really crunchy.. YUM!! Scrub the goo and strings off the pumpkin seeds.

Make a slurry of kosher salt and water. Slurry=thick mixture.

Coat the seeds in slurry, bake on a cookie sheet at 250 degrees for half an hour. Check. If not dry, bake another half hour.

Cool and enjoy! Leave it out in the sun with a net covering them for about 3 days, but don't forget to bring it back into the house during the night so it doesn't absorb the moisture. Bake in oven, never fry on range top. That would just be wrong. **pumpkin seeds with cinnamon**

INGREDIENTS
4 cups pumpkin seeds
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
vegetable oil cooking spray
DIRECTIONS
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
Grease a cookie sheet and spread the seeds out in an even layer. Lightly sprinkle with salt and cinnamon.
Bake for about 5 minutes, then stir the seeds. Season with salt and cinnamon again. Continue baking, stirring occasionally, for about 20 minutes, or until seeds are toasted. Spread them out on a baking sheet. Hit them with a spray of PAM (I never had that option, we had to coat them with oil), then spinkle sea salt on them. If you are truely a salt fan, you can soak them in a saline solution for a day or so, then bake them off! I cook them on the stove top. The way I cook pumpkin seeds is probably the wrong way, but they come out really really good! I wash the seeds really good until all of the stringy and sticky stuff come off. Then I get a pan and put the seeds in along with water (almost enough to cover the seeds) and salt...salt is to your taste...i love salt so i put in a couple tablespoons of sea salt. I turn on the stove top and cook while stirring....(the stirring part is important especially when you are almost at the end of the process. Cook until evaporated, then continue to stir on medium heat until the seeds are browned and crispy and ready to eat. Enjoy! I do this multiple times a year! And remember this is an estimate....I just do it...I dont have an exact recipe! Also, if you want to make pumpkin seeds all year round, go to Angelo Caputos or Whole foods they have uncooked and unsalted pumpkin seeds that are really tasty to make! Good Luck!
Adriana i think usually people just put butter and salt on them, then put then evenly on a pan then bake them... i usually put some sort of herb or spice on them. i sometimes also will fry them in a pan I love pumkin seeds.
1 cup pumpkin seeds, cleaned
1 tablespoon Real Butter, melted
1/4 teaspoon salt


Heat oven to 350°F. Combine pumpkin seeds, butter and salt in medium bowl.

Place mixture onto ungreased 15x10x1-inch jelly-roll pan. Bake for 30 minutes, stirring every 10 minutes, until seeds are dry and begin to brown.

VARIATION: Garlic Roasted Pumpkin Seeds: Omit salt. Prepare as directed above except use 1/4 teaspoon garlic salt. Bake as directed above. Pumpkin seeds
1/2 stick butter, melted
Salt to taste

Preheat oven to 275 degrees. Wash pumpkin seeds after removing from pumpkin. Soak in melted butter for 5 minutes. Cover a cookie sheet with foil and spread seeds on it, keeping seeds from touching. Sprinkle with a little salt and bake 2-5 minutes or until lightly browned. Let cool 5 minutes before serving. well you collect them soak them over night and then you bake them and salt them



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