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Spiced Roasted Pumpkin Seeds (3 ways)

(recipe, Katie Hickey)

Introduction

If you have more time and patience, you can boil the seeds in salted water for roughly 10 minutes before draining and proceeding with the rest of the instructions (scale back on the salt called for in the individual recipes). Your seeds will have a nice crunch to them, and more balanced salt distribution.

Ingredients

  1. Sweet and Spicy:
  2. 1 egg white
  3. ¼ cup natural cane sugar
  4. ½ tsp. cayenne pepper
  5. scant ½ teaspoon fine grained sea salt
  6. 1 cup fresh pumpkin seeds
  7. Curried:
  8. 1 egg white
  9. 2 tsp. curry powder
  10. scant ½ teaspoon fine grained sea salt
  11. 1 cup fresh pumpkin seeds
  12. Black Tea and Butter:
  13. 1 tsp. (black) tea
  14. 3 Tbsp. unsalted butter, melted
  15. scant ½ teaspoon fine grained sea salt
  16. 1 cup fresh pumpkin seeds

Steps

  1. Sweet and Spicy:
  2. Preheat oven to 375. In a medium-sized bowl whisk together the egg white, sugar, cayenne and salt. Add the pumpkin seeds and toss well. Drain off any excess egg white (using a strainer) and place seeds in a single layer across a baking sheet. Bake for about 12 minutes or until seeds are golden. Sprinkle with a bit more sugar and cayenne pepper when they come out of the oven. Taste and season with more salt if needed.
  3. Curried:
  4. Preheat oven to 375.
  5. In a medium-sized bowl whisk together the egg white, curry powder and salt. Add the pumpkin seeds and toss well. Drain off any excess egg white (using a strainer) and place seeds in a single layer across a baking sheet. Bake for about 12 minutes or until seeds are golden. Sprinkle with a bit more curry powder when they come out of the oven. Taste and season with more salt if needed.
  6. Black Tea and Butter:
  7. Preheat oven to 375.
  8. Using a mortar and pestle or spice grinder, grind the tea into a fine powder. Set aside.
  9. In a medium-sized bowl combine the butter and salt. Add the pumpkin seeds and toss well. Place seeds in a single layer across a baking sheet. Bake for about 12 minutes or until seeds are golden. Sprinkle with the ground tea. Taste and season with more salt if needed.