Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

Try roasting the seeds next time you carve a pumpkin!  Roasted pumpkin seeds are easy, tasty, and the healthiest thing you'll eat on Halloween.

Step 1: Acquire seeds

You've just scooped out a pumpkin or other winter squash, creating a nice pile of pumpkin guts and seeds. Take just a bit longer to squish through the mess, picking out the seeds and detaching as much of the stringy goo as possible. If you've got kids this is the perfect job for them.

Give your seeds a wash in the colander to remove a bit more of the sticky stuff. Don't stress too much about getting them perfectly clean- a bit of leftover pumpkin flesh will add flavor.

Comments

[explosivemaker]

IDEA!!!!!

why not cook some and then put it in some chex mix?.....hmmmmmm

[Diabloscope]

OH YEA !!!

[canida]

I love this idea!

[billybobjhonson]

one tip for seperating the seeds from the flesh, if you have ever noticed while rinsing off the seeds, they float. what i always do is take all of the guts from carving the pumpkins and just put them in a big enough bowl of water, squish it all together to seperate the seeds from the flesh then just skim them off from the top of the water with a spoon, works great and you dont have to try and pick up all the slippery seeds from the table

[cowscankill]

Thank you. I just made some delicious pumpkin seeds. Have not eaten any in 9 years.

[AndyGadget]

I made some a few days ago, some with Indian spices and some with jerk seasoning and they were ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS!
Thanks for the recipe - I'll be trying it with butternut squash seeds too.

[mayday295]

wish i would have read this before i made my seeds..... burnt the crap out of them!!!

[Patented]

ahhhh ! I made some like these last halloween, it was so delicious!!

[StarFace]

I've been making these for years and I was starting to think I was one of the only people that did haha!
Another alternative is to put sugar etc on to them to make them a bit sweeter! For anyone that's on a diet etc these are ideal 'cos they are sooo nice... and still sooo healthy too!
Nice instructable =)

[Jason Gagne]

I find that it's easy to separate the seeds if you run water over them in an colander, not just to rinse them off but to separate ..

[Jayefuu]

These look great! I will be making some from the leftover seeds from the pumpkin I used for soup. Will be making an ible on it so will link through so people don't chuck their seeds away! Please could you also add to step 3 that 350-400F is 180 - 210 Celcius. Our European ovens don't have Fahrenheit on them!

[hornysasquatch]

i just made up a batch useing roasted garlic and mesquite seasoning. taste amazing! im thinking of buying a few cheap pumpkins and making more. including a sweet version with 1/2-oil, 1/2honey, cinnamon, and nutmeg.

[Fizzxwizz]

This is a tradition in my family! Every year we roast the seeds just like you do! I'm glad to see other people do it too.

[FreshPineSent]

Fun fact: pumpkin seeds float, put the goop in a bowl of water and mush around with your hands to separate.

[Spartan Phalanx]

The oil kinda looks like a jack-o-lantern

[TheRevJester]

Use Bacon Salt as your flavor ehancer!

[jimmer_48]

You can also add Old Bay seasoning...

[dsaavedra]

old bay freakin rocks! old bay is what im adding to my seeds this year.

[Owenmon]

i like them this way 1. go to your local store 2. buy them :D

[alvincredible]

today was the first time i had pumpkin seeds and it was made on a pan. my parents stir fried it basically, oiled, and then seasoned. i dont know what oven cooked seeds taste like but these are pretty good too :-) is there a big difference?

[cheeterrr]

I find that if I don't try to get most of the "goop" off when I roast them the sugars in the strings still attached end up burning before the shell is toasted a nice golden color. Flavor wise if you roast them less maybe or at a lower temp for longer might prevent the slim/stringy bits from charing I suppose and add more flavor. Great instructable, I love roasting them up. I like season salt on mine, my wife likes a chunky sea salt on hers. I've never tried Old Bay seasoning, It's worth a shot!

[static]

Only if ol' Ron P would make seed roasting accessory for his Rotisserie. Set it and forget it. :)

[atombomb45]

This is great, considering I just gave my pumpkin a lobotomy last night, I was looking for a way to do the seeds.

[agiedt]

Pumpkin seeds are the best. I would recommend not washing the seeds for best flavor!

[aquax]

I absolutely love roasted pumpkin seeds. It's probably my favorite part of carving pumpkins. A simple salt and pepper seasoning is good (my gf's favorite), but I think my favorite is cayenne pepper, a bit of garlic salt, and black pepper.