so you’ve carved a pumpkin for your halloween decorations or you chopped one up to make soup or a delicious pumpkin dessert or a pumpkin pie. whatever the reason, if you get your hands on some fresh pumpkin seeds, do not chuck them! you can make a wonderful snack instead…

don’t waste the yummy seeds!

as you clean the pumpkin, put the seeds in a bowl with salty water:

once you have them all, give it a good wash to get rid of the orange remains of the pumpkin as much as you can. if there’s some left, don’t worry, it’ll go while roasting.

drain the water and put everything on a non-stick frying pan with some salt but without any oil and roast until its colour turns brownish. keep stirring constantly… *yawn*

… or instead you can cheat and do what i do! just microwave the seeds for 5 mins or so. make sure you stop and stir every minute though.

makes a wonderful snack this. it’s so turkish as well. pumpkin and sunflower seeds are great to snack on, so healthy too. but it’s no fun when you buy them without the shell. just hold the shell vertically in your mouth and start biting up to the mid section and it’ll drop into your mouth.

enjoy! x