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Spiced Pepitas

Spiced Pepitas

This spicy recipe makes wonderful use of the seeds from your jack-o'-lantern.

The Martha Stewart Show, October 2009 http://www.marthastewart.com/318160/spiced-pepitas
3.25
Rated
65100(12)12
  • Yield Makes 2 1/2 cups

Ingredients

    • 1 large egg white
    • 1/4 cup sugar
    • 1 teaspoon coarse salt
    • 1/2 teaspoon chile powder
    • 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
    • 1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
    • 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
    • 2 1/2 cups raw pepitas (hulled green pumpkin seeds)

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. In a medium bowl, beat egg white until soft and foamy. In a small bowl mix together sugar, salt, chile, allspice, cumin, and cayenne pepper. Whisk sugar mixture into egg whites. Stir in pepitas until well coated.
  3. Spread pepita mixture in a single layer on a rimmed baking sheet. Bake until golden and fragrant and seeds are almost completely dry, 10 to 15 minutes. Place baking sheet on a wire rack to cool. Spiced pepitas may be stored in an airtight container at room temperature up to 2 weeks.

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