Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Aromatic Sweet Pumpkin Seeds

Halloween will be here this Friday. Do you have any fresh pumpkin seeds on hand that you are thinking of throwing away? Save them for this delicious recipe. You will get a lot of credit out of it.

Ingredients
2 Cups Fresh Pumpkin Seeds (removed from the meat)
2tbsp Unsalted Butter

Seasonings
1/2 tsp Ground Cinnamon
1 pinch of All Spice
1 pinch of Pumpkin Pie Spice
1/2 tsp Salt
1/4 cup Cane Sugar

Preheat oven at 400F

Put pumpkin seeds into a colandar and wash them with running tap water to wash away as much pumpkin flesh as you can
Toss seeds with salt
Transfer seeds to a parchment paper-lined baking sheet
Spread them out to single layer
Bake for 15-20 minutes until seeds are dry

While waiting, melt butter in a saucepan
Add sugar and all the spices in
Drizzle the sugar glaze on top of the seeds
Toss to coat
Bake seeds again for another 8-10 minutes
Let cool in room temperature for about an hour and serve

Serve 2-4 people

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