Pumpkin seeds are great healthy snacks. But you just can’t eat those seeds straight out from the pumpkin, right? So here, you’ll learn how to cook pumpkin seeds! The first thing you’ll need to do is to prepare your pumpkin seeds before cooking them. Once you have those pumpkin seeds, first thing to do is to clean them. You can rinse the seeds off and with a use of a kitchen towel, pat the pumpkins seeds dry. On the other hand, if you want a tastier pumpkin flavor, then don’t rinse the seeds off. Simply use a damp kitchen towel to wipe them off. Just before cooking, if you want salted pumpkin seeds, you may opt to soak the seeds in salted water for about 24 hours. Then, after that, allow it to dry overnight. You may also dry the pumpkin seeds in a microwave using low heat.
There are different ways to cook pumpkin seeds. First, you can roast or toast your seeds by using an oven or a skillet. On the other hand, you can use a microwave to cook your pumpkin seeds. At the same time, you may use flavoring to your seeds. Here you’ll learn how to cook pumpkin seeds by oven roasting. Let’s first start with cooking pumpkin seeds by oven roasting.
One of the simplest ways to cook pumpkin seeds is to do oven roasting. You may add salt, butter, margarine or oil to your pumpkin seeds. Previously, we mentioned that you can soak the seeds in salted water overnight or about 24 hours. Alternatively, if you want a stronger salty flavor, you can just boil the seeds in salted water before roasting. So when your seeds are dry and ready to go let’s start the cooking.
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First preheat your oven to 250 F.
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Prepare a baking sheet and cover it with non-stick foil.
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Toss your seeds in some butter or oil, margarine or cooking spray.
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Next, sprinkle some salt, and flavoring. You can use garlic powder, onion powder, cayenne pepper, ginger, cumin, sugar, curry powder, brown sugar, maple syrup, honey, nutmeg, Worcestershire, or Tabasco sauce.
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Now, bake the seeds for 1 hour or until golden brown. Make sure that you toss the seeds every 15 minutes.
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Let cool and enjoy! You can also store the oven roasted pumpkin seeds in an airtight container for up to 3 months. You can make it last a year if you refrigerate it.
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Alternately, you can roast in a stovetop skillet. Instead of baking in the oven, simply stir and flip the seeds in a skillet continuously until they are golden brown.