20 + Ways to Cook your Pumpkin Seeds

Pumpkin Seeds are so easy to make. To some, cleaning out a pumpkin seems like a lot of work. To us, cleaning out the pumpkin means fresh baked pumpkin seeds! Fall recipes like this one is super easy to make and you will wish that you could make these all year long. Do you have any favorite pumpkin recipes? How about pumpkin seed recipes? 

How to Make Pumpkin Seeds

Ingredients

Pumpkin seeds-removed and cleaned from the pumpkin

Various seasonings

Olive oil or any flavor of oil you want

Directions

1-Clean off seeds.

2-Soak for 1 hour in salt water. This step can be skipped which I often do.

3-Toss seeds with a small amount of olive oil.

4-Sprinkle seeds with salt.

5-Bake in a preheated 300 F oven until seeds dry out which is approximately 15-25 minutes.

Other pumpkin seed recipe variations using the same directions up above!

Use other oils in step 3

1-Squash oil

2-Peanut oil

3-Sesame oil

4-Coconut oil

Use other seasonings in step 4 with the salt or omit salt

5-White sugar

6-Brown sugar

7-Garlic powder

8-Garlic salt

9-Seasoning salt

10-Onion salt

11-Chili powder

12-Taco seasoning

13-Ranch seasoning

14-French onion seasoning

15-Cinnamon

16-Pumpkin pie spice

17-Tabasco sauce

18-Buffalo wing sauce - very small amount

19-BBQ sauce-very small amount

20-BBQ seasoning

Kitchen Note

Don't over do the wet ingredients as it will take the seeds even longer to dry out.

Here are some bonus pumpkin recipe & pumpkin crafts

(Photo from Two Little Cavaliers and link below)

• Two Little Cavaliers for  Kale Chips Superfood Snack (Baked Kale Chips with Chia, Pumpkin Seeds and Lemon Juice) 
• Made in Our Kitchen- Pumpkin Seed Brittle
• My Darling Lemon Thyme Kale and Pumpkin Seed Pesto
• Teach Preschool - Exploring Pumpkin Seeds in the Preschool Classroom
• Huff Post Taste- Simple Pumpkin Seed Sauce 
• Nuturing Young Minds-Pumpkin Seed Turkeys

Click over to find more pumpkin recipes. 

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