Student Recipes: Pumpkin Seeds

University student Ellie loves food and is always looking for ways to eat healthy while sticking to the budget that is living as a student. She believes there is life beyond beans on toast and wants to raise awareness that take-away and ready-made meals are more expensive than buying ingredients fresh.

Student Recipes: Pumpkin Seeds

• Serves: 2
• Prep time: 30 minutes
• Cook time: 20 minutes

Ingredients

• 2 pumpkins
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 2 tsp salt

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
2. Scoop all the insides out of the pumpkins and put them all in a bowl of water.
3. Roughly separate the seeds and put them in a bowl.
4. Use a colander to wash them and remove any pumpkin remains.
5. Bring a pan of water to the boil and add 1 tsp salt.
6. Add the seeds and simmer for 10 mins.
7. Drain the seeds in the colander and tip them out onto a tea towel.
8. Pat them to remove any excess water, but don't worry if they're not fully dry.
9. Mix them in a bowl with 1 tbsp olive oil and 1 tsp salt.
10. Spread evenly over a baking tray and put them in the oven for 10 mins.
11. Remove, and reshuffle them to make sure they all bake evenly.
12. Put them back in the oven for 10 minutes and take out when they're beginning to brown (or taste done!).