How to prepare Toasted Pumpkin Seeds "Pepitas"

Preparing a snack of toasted pumpkin seeds Nuggets is easy, you can toast them with any of these three methods, read the step by step below.

We continue with pumpkin recipes, as you should know I don't like to waste anything, so after making the cheese cake with pumpkin, I saved the seedlings to prepare some toasted pumpkin seeds "Pepitas or Pipas" as well as those sold in baskets in the Mexico, usually by indigenous women or Marias as they have been known for a long time.

I prepared them mainly so that my children know where they come from and how they are made, because they had no idea, they have always eaten them bought when we go to Mexico and my mom gives them. There they eat like a snack, with or without a shell.

These seeds only have salt, like the original ones; but you can add any seasoning you prefer, such as chili, salt with garlic, paprika, etc.

Pumpkin seeds contain some ingredients that can help fight osteoporosis, parasites, reduce cholesterol and inflammation caused by arthritis, reduce depression and promote sleep.

Roasted Pumpkin Seeds (Pepitas)

Ingredients

Raw pumpkin seeds
Salt
Oil (vegetable, olive or spray)

If you are removing the seeds from the pumpkin, first of all you must wash them, remove all the pumpkin residue and put them to dry, either on napkins or in the sun.

It can take at least half a day for the seedlings to be completely dry.

Already dry follow either of these two procedures:

• If it is in a frying pan or comal:
  Add half a teaspoon of oil (or spray), pumpkin seedands and a little salt, move constantly until toasted.

• If it is in the oven:
  Heat the oven to 350F or 180C (roast).
  Place the pumpkin seeds in a cookie tray, spray with spray oil and add salt.
  Put it in the oven for 15 to 20 minutes. You can take them out and move to the middle of the process.
  Remove and leave to cool, eat with or without shell.
  Enjoy them!