We are carving our pumpkins this weekend, and pumpkin seeds are a must. Because I have a horrible memory, I have to ask every year how to make them LOL.

Any help would be most appreciated

Thanks!

2 cups fresh pumpkin seeds
1/2 teaspoon worcestershire sauce
1 1/2 tablespoons melted margarine or butter, or vegie oil
1 1/4 teaspoons salt

Wash seeds carefully to remove any clinging fibers. Preheat oven to 250 degrees. Measure cleaned seeds.

Mix together Worcestershire sauce, margarine and salt.

mix seasoning with seeds and spread in a large, shallow baking pan. Bake about 25 minutes, stirring occasionally or until seeds are dry, crisp and golden.

Chelle, here's your yearly reminder, lol. :)

I always intend to do something with the seeds as well as the pumpkin. Last year, the pumpkin sat in the yard until the birds pecked it to nothing. rofl They loved it. hehe

Originally posted by mustang80
Chelle, here's your yearly reminder, lol. :)

LOL thanks Danielle :pumpkin:

Ok I am not much of a cook. I am trying my hand at making pumpkin seeds...

What is your recipe??

melt a little butter...or save calories and spray them with "Pam" add salt, bake until golden brown...then eat

eat shells and all or like sunflower seeds?

you can do it either way, but I dont like the shells

Wash, soak in salt water, spray with oil. bake......

I wash and bake as well, but when I throw them in the oven, I like to sprinkle a little onion salt or garlic salt on ours.

Anyone have any idea how to turn the pumpkin seeds into the snack format once harvested from the pumpkin? (aka I carved pumpkins and dont want to waste the seeds)

I have googled it and it suggests dehydrating them at 200F for 3-4 hrs :O THEN roasting with a bit of oil and salt.

Any other alternatives? I have them drying now on papertowels b/c I rescued them from the swamp of pumpkin guts! :laugh:

http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/001438toasted_pumpkin_seeds.php

Check out this website. It has tons of great recipes.

I usually dry mine and then roast in the oven but I add a cinnamon mixture sprinkled over the top. Have also done some cajun ones with a spicey seasoning salt mixture.
If I just do them with plain salt, I make a trail mix with them added to raisins, wheat cereal, pretzels, M & M's, dried fruit....Just whatever is in the cabinets.

I haven't had pumpkin seeds in forever. We have more pumpkin left carve and I am thought about saving those to make pumpkin seeds with.

I just bake them with old bay seasoning -- yummy! I'm going to try a few of these other ideas too!

I'm waiting til after halloween to try to get a few 'unsold' pumpkins for recipes :)

I was wondering if anyone had any ideas/recipes for pumpkin seeds? I use to eat roasted pumpkin seeds as a kid and I just bought my daughter a pumpkin ( On sale for $1!!) for Halloween an wanted to try my hand on making some... Any ideas?

I do an in-home preschool a few times a week and we did this last week!

It was delicious:
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Pumpkin-Seeds-with-Cinnamon-and-Salt/Detail.aspx

It's a mix of cinnamon and salt! YUM! It's super good - just make sure you watch it so it doesn't burn at the bottom....stir regularly :)

I made them for the first time 2 days ago after we carved pumpkins.

This is the recipe we used. It tastes similar the chex mix. http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Spiced-Pumpkin-Seeds/Detail.aspx?prop31=4

Awesome thanks! I will be sure to try both recipes, they both sounds uber delicious!! :pblow:

I just made some yesterday with my kids :) All I did was heat some oil in a skillet and fry them like I was frying potatoes. Then I covered them in salt. Sound healthy don't they rofl ;)

Andrea

I just tossed my with some fat free pam and roasted for at 325 for about 40 minutes until they were golden brown. Sprinkled with salt.

I throw them on salads.

My mom always just spead them out on a cookie sheet, sprinkled w/ salt & baked. Or do you mean recipes that include the seeds as an ingredient? No ideas there.

After doing a little internet research, pumpkin seeds are also called pepitas. A pepita is a Mexican preparation for pumpkin seeds. They can be hulled or not, roasted or not, and salted or not. (Feel free to research google for more info!)

I went to my favourite site which is www.meals.com and typed in "pumpkin seeds" and "pepitas" and this is what it came up with. Here's a link with some recipes that may help! http://www.meals.com/Meals-Tools/Recipe-Finder.aspx?keywords=pepitas&sort=7&dir=False#1

Thanks all for the wonderful tips! :grouphug:

Thanks for the tips. I am saving all of the seeds form the squashes I bought this fall to roast. I assume I can use the same recipes since they are related to pumpkins.