余った南瓜の種で/ With left over Kabocha seeds

roasted kabocha seeds, a photo by fumika yamamoto on Flickr.

昨日、南瓜を切っていたら、この種も食べれないかな？と思い南瓜の種をローストする事に。

When I cut a kabocha yesterday, I saw some seeds. Because I did not want to waste them, I decided to make some roasted kabocha seeds.

まずは塩を加えた水で20分くらいゆでて南瓜の種をきれいにします。そして24時間、干します。

If you want to roast kabocha seeds well, I recommend boiling them for 20 minutes in order to clean them. Also make sure to add some salt, so there will be some salty taste in your kabocha seeds. After that, dry them for 24 hours.

最後に溶かした少量のバターとオリーブオイルと塩をまぜてオーブンで10分くらいロースト。

Mix some melted butter, some olive oil and salt together, then put some kabocha seeds and mix them well. You can use a regular oven too, but I used an oven toaster since there were not a lot of seeds to roast. I roasted them for about 10 minutes.

ちゃんと見てないとすぐに焦げてしまうので。かき混ぜながらローストして下さい。

You need to make sure to watch your seeds and mix while they are in an oven toaster because they will get burned very easily.

プシュプシュと音をたてながらできあがり。ちょっと焦がしてしまいましたが香ばしい★

I love hearing the noise of roasted kabocha seeds when they are still hot. They make cute noises. I think I burned them a bit, but still they taste good!

ナッツ類は最近、値段が上がっているので私にはちょっと手の届きにくい食べ物になってしまいました。

The price of nuts went up lately. Their price makes me get hesitated to buy them.

やっぱり自分で作った方が美味しい気もするし、何が入っているか分かるので体にも優しい気がする。

Anyway, I think mine taste much better than the ones that I can buy from a grocery store and I like how I know what is in my roasted kabocha seeds because I cooked them.

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