MOM Tip - Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

MOM Tip - It is pumpkin carving season and with that means a pile of pumpkin seeds that can now be created into a yummy healthy snack. So, get out the salt and oil and prepare to roast your own pumpkin seeds.

Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

Ingredients
- One medium to large size pumpkin
-Salt
-Cooking oil or Olive oil

Instructions

1 Preheat oven to 400°F. Cut open the pumpkin, scoop out the insides with a spoon. Separate the seeds from the stringy core. Rinse the seeds.

2 Place seeds in a small sauce pan. For every 1/2 cup of seeds add in 2 cups of waters. Add a half tablespoon of salt for every cup of water. Bring to a boil. Let simmer for 10 minutes. Remove f and drain.

3 Spread about a tablespoon of cooking oil or olive oil on the bottom of a roasting pan/cookie sheet or jelly roll pan. Spread the seeds out over the pan, all in one layer. Bake on the top rack until the seeds begin to brown, 10-20 minutes. When browned , remove from the oven. Let the seeds cool all the way down before eating.