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Sweet Pumpkin Seeds Recipe

September 30, 2016 By Sam 1 Comment

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Sweetened pumpkin seeds roasted on the stovetop and coated in pumpkin spice (or cinnamon) and sugar!

Sweet Pumpkin Seeds! Done in 15 minutes! These use pumpkin spice but you can substitute cinnamon

It might be a little early to be carving Jack O’ Lanterns, but I have several hollow pumpkins sitting on my porch right now.  They’re definitely going to go bad long before Halloween, but I needed to get a head start on making pumpkin seed recipes!

Every year, Zach and I carve pumpkins with his sister, and every year we save a giant bowl full of pumpkin seeds and roast them with salt and any other spices we have on hand.  Usually I like them just enough to eat a small handful, but with another pumpkin-carving session in the not-too-distant future, I wanted to have a recipe ready that I knew was irresistible.

For me, that meant adding butter and sugar (big surprise).  I also used pumpkin spice to add flavor to the seeds, but you can certainly use cinnamon instead for cinnamon-sugar pumpkin seeds.

Sweet Pumpkin Seeds! Done in 15 minutes! These use pumpkin spice but you can substitute cinnamon

I seemed to average about 1 1/2 cups of pumpkin seeds from every mid-sized pumpkin that I scraped clean, but this recipe can easily be scaled up or scaled down.  Just keep in mind that if you have a whole lot of seeds, it might be better to cook them in batches because they need to be rotated over the surface of the skillet to cook properly, and this will take longer if you have a ton of seeds cooking at the same time.

Make sure you clean off most of the pumpkin guts from the seeds, though a little bit of leftover pumpkin can be good for adding extra flavor.  Rinse them well, drain, and pat dry with a towel (careful, they’re sticky and tend to stick to paper towels!).

Also make sure you don’t just set them in a bowl and let the water run over them and walk away… these seeds float and during the first recipe trial I accidentally lost half of my seeds to the kitchen sink when they floated out of the bowl and down the drain… oops.

Sweet Pumpkin Seeds! Done in 15 minutes! These use pumpkin spice but you can substitute cinnamon Sweet Pumpkin Seeds! Done in 15 minutes! These use pumpkin spice but you can substitute cinnamon

I originally made these pumpkin seeds by roasting them in the oven before I decided to try them on the stove.  Roasting them took forever and seemed to make the seeds too sticky and chewy — none of them quite puffed up like I wanted to.

By roasting them on the stovetop (preferably in a cast iron skillet) instead, you can watch them carefully to make sure that all seeds “puff”, and it takes a third of the time.  It’s actually kind of fun to turn the seeds over with your spatula, watching them as the sheer skin around them contracts and the centers pop, making them jump on the skillet.  This makes for crunchy seeds, rather than chewy, woody ones.

Sweet Pumpkin Seeds! Done in 15 minutes! These use pumpkin spice but you can substitute cinnamon

Enjoy!

Pumpkin seeds in scoop

Sweet Pumpkin Seed Recipe

Sweetened pumpkin seeds roasted on the stovetop and coated in pumpkin spice (or cinnamon) and sugar!
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Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: pumpkin seeds, sweet pumpkin seeds
Cook Time: 25 minutes
Total Time: 25 minutes
Servings: 4 servings
Calories: 97kcal
Author: Sam Merritt

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 Tablespoons unsalted butter divided (21g)
  • 1 1/2 cups fresh pumpkin seeds rinsed and dried (185g)
  • 3 Tablespoons sugar
  • 2 Tablespoons brown sugar tightly packed
  • 1 teaspoon pumpkin spice can substitute cinnamon
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt

Instructions

  • Melt 1 Tablespoon of butter over medium heat in a medium-sized heavy-bottomed (preferably cast iron) skillet.
  • Meanwhile, whisk together sugars, pumpkin spice, and salt. Set aside.
  • Once butter has melted in your skillet, add pumpkin seeds.
  • Cook, stirring frequently, until all seeds have puffed (you can actually see the thin skin around them shrink and the seeds puff out), about 15 minutes. Seeds will be beginning to turn golden brown.
  • Add reserved half Tablespoon of butter and melt, coating seeds in thin layer of butter.
  • Add sugar mixture and stir well, until all seeds are coated.
  • Transfer seeds to a wax-paper lined cookie sheet and allow to cool before enjoying.

Nutrition

Serving: 1serving | Calories: 97kcal | Carbohydrates: 15g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 4g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Cholesterol: 11mg | Sodium: 148mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 15g | Vitamin A: 131IU | Calcium: 8mg | Iron: 1mg
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Sweet Pumpkin Seeds! Done in 15 minutes! These use pumpkin spice but you can substitute cinnamon

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Sweet Pumpkin Seeds! Done in 15 minutes! These use pumpkin spice but you can substitute cinnamon

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  1. Alaina @ A Not So Quiet Kitchen says

    October 5, 2016 at 6:05 pm

    My kiddos love pumpkin seeds and I think they would gobble these up with a quickness! And I just bought my first couple pumpkins of the year yesterday! Saving this recipe for sure!

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