Pepitas
A tasty finger food from Mexico. You can play around with the ingredients to suit your tastes.
| Pepitas | |
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| Servings: | Serves 4 |
| Calories per serving: | 17 |
| Ready in: | 15 minutes |
| Prep. time: | 5 minutes |
| Cook time: | 10 minutes |
| Difficulty: | 
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| Recipe author: | JuliaBalbilla |
| First published: | 21st January 2013 |
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Best recipe reviewBeer food 5/5 Nice with any drinks 🍷🍸🍹🍾🍺 |
Ingredients
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- 130 g (4.5 oz) pumpkin seeds
- 4 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed
- ¼ teaspoon sea salt, crushed in a pestle and mortar
- 2 teaspoons chipotle chillies, crushed in a pestle and mortar
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon lime juice
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
Method
- Heat a heavy based fring pan and dry-fry the seeds until they start to brown. Shimmy the pan `chef-style' to keep them from burning
- Add the olive oil and garlic and heat just to take the raw edge off the garlic
- Add the chillies, sugar and salt, remove from the heat and let the sugar melt and cover the seeds
- Stir well to coat all of the seeds
- Add to a serving bowl and drizzle with the lime juice
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