Cooking Pumpkin Seeds, A Healthy And Tasteful Snack

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Pumpkin seeds contain magnesium, zinc, potassium and good fatty acids, and the good thing is that these minerals and vitamins stay in the seeds when cooked. You can even eat the seeds raw and the provide a good source of fibers. The seeds hulled from the pumpkin are best when cooked and served as snack.

Pumpkin Seeds Can Be Roasted or Toasted

Cooking pumpkin seeds may be limited to just roasting or toasting but there are still many different recipes that ensure they can be enjoyed in several different ways. Some people just clean the seeds from the stringy pumpkin and pop them into the oven placing them in a pan to ensure that they cook separately from each other.

Other people soak them in salty water and bring the water to a boil to make the seeds salty before they are drained and placed in a baking pan. Cooking pumpkin seeds can usually take up to around 20 minutes or until such time when the pumpkin seeds are beautifully browned.

Cooking pumpkin seeds need not be limited to salt, you can add other spices that you wish and sprinkle these on the seeds before you cook them. Cooking pumpkin seeds can also be adventurous to an extent where you can experiment with the spices that you like. You can immerse the seeds in water which is already filled with the spice of your choice or you can sprinkle the spice on top before cooking pumpkin seeds.

Some popular choices of spices to be added when cooking pumpkin seeds are:
- garlic powder
- Indian curry powder
- cayenne powder
- Cajun seasoning
- chili powder
- union powder
- salt and pepper
- tea

Another way of cooking pumpkin seeds is to liberally coat them with butter and a dash of salt before you place them in the oven for roasting. Place the seeds in a single layer in a baking pan and roast for about 45 minutes at around 300 degrees Fahrenheit or 150 degrees Celsius.

Pumpkin seeds can be eaten with and without husking the seeds, without husking the seeds can gift the pumpkin seeds a nice crunchy texture. Before cooking pumpkin seeds you need to wash them in water and get the stringy meat from the pumpkin of, you can also boil them for this purpose.

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