Roasted Pumpkin Seeds for Halloween

Happy Fall and Happy Halloween everyone! I hope you are all excited about this year’s fall festivities. Tonight myself, my daughter, and my wife carved a pumpkin in preparation for Halloween night! Something very cool that you can do with those crazy pumpkin seeds is roasting them!

That’s right. This year I decided to be a food explorer and put those crazy seeds to good use. The recipe forroasted pumpkin seeds is not too hard either. Check out the easy recipe that I used to make some delicious roasted pumpkin seeds. Not only that, they are good for you too!

Recipe for Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

• Pumpkin Seeds, of course 🙂 (1 1/2 cups raw)
• 1 pinch salt
• 2 teaspoons, butter
• 2 pinches of cinnamon to taste

Directions:

• Preheat your oven to 300 degrees
• Melt butter, include 1 pinch salt and 2 pinches of cinnamon to a bowl. Throw the pumpkin seeds into the bowl and mix
• Spread out pumpkin seeds, after mixing, onto a cookie sheet
• Bake for approximately 45 minutes, or until golden brown
• Enjoy the fall amazingness 🙂

Of course, if this is your first time here, you’ll notice that this is a fitness and health site. So of course I thought of the nutrition and health factor behind the pumpkin seeds. Check out the image below for the nutrition facts for 1 cup of pumpkin seeds;

Note the great protein amount! Not only that, unlisted on the nutrition facts are the good values of magnesium and zinc that pumpkin seeds can provide you, according to nutritiondata.com. So for a quick fall snack in between your busy day or workout, consider some roasted pumpkin seeds!

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Yours,

Bob Sharpe