How to Pre-Salt Pumpkin Seeds

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Hi! This is Jenny with Simply Beautiful Crafts on behalf of Expert Village, and today we're going to do one my favorite things about Halloween. We're going to roast pumpkin seeds. Yum-yum. There are a variety of ways of preparing your pumpkin seeds for roasting. Some people like to go right from the pumpkin, drying the pumpkin seeds, and putting them in the oven, and seasoning them before they put them in the oven. Personally, I like to boil my seeds and them simmer them in salt water so that the salt flavor goes all the way through the seed and is not just on the outside. This is what you want to do for that. This size pumpkin yielded just over half a cup of pumpkin seeds. For every half a cup of pumpkin seeds, you want about 2 cups of water. Exact measurements are completely optional. About 2 tablespoons of salt. I like to use either sea salt of kosher salt. You can use either one or just regular table salt. This just happens to be my preference. You want to put the 2 tablespoons of salt in your water, put it on the stove, and bring it to a boil making sure that the salt is completely dissolved. Once your salt is completely dissolved in your water, you're going to add your pumpkin seeds. Then set your timer and let them simmer for about 10 minutes. Some people put them in the salt water, bring it to a boil and then turn it off, and let their pumpkin seeds sit over night and soak up more salt. Really how you do it depends entirely on how salty you want your pumpkin seeds to be in your final product. You can also add seasonings before you roast them to increase the flavor of your seeds or change the flavor of your seeds adding to the salt. We'll bring it to a boil, set our timer for 10 minutes, and then we will have presalted seeds that are salted all the way through so that when they're roasted the flavor will be on the inside as well the outside. That's how you want to prepare your pumpkin seeds if you want that flavoring all the way through.

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