Cranberry
Pumpkin Bread Recipe
Ingredients:
2 1/4 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 eggs (beaten)
1 cups brown sugar
1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 cup fresh or dried cranberries
Directions:
In a large bowl combine flour, baking powder, sugar, pumpkin
pie spice and salt. Mix well. In a separate bowl,
combine pumpkin, eggs and oil. Mix well. Add
pumpkin mixture to flour mixture and stir well. Fold in
the cranberries. Transfer mixture to two lightly greased
loaf pans. Bake in a preheated oven at 350F for
approximately 45 to 55 minutes or until golden and baked
through. Cool for 5 minutes in pan before removing to
wire rack to cool completely.
Toasted Pumpkin
Seeds
Toasted pumpkin seeds make a great garnish for cranberry
pumpkin bread, as well as a nutritious snack all on their
own.
It’s best to toast your own, rather than buy the bleached
and over-salted or shelled kind. The nutty taste of the
kind you roast and salt yourself is something not to be
missed. They are great for snacking, or can be added to
top soups or liven up salads.
Pumpkin seeds can be harvested from a large or small
pumpkin. Cut into the top of the pumpkin and separate the
pumpkin seeds from the stringy inside of the pumpkin. The
pumpkin meat (the part inside the shell of the pumpkin that
isn’t stringy) can be used to make soup, mixed with risotto or
pasta after sautéing with garlic, onions and butter, or simply
baked and topped with a little brown sugar and dotted with
butter. Delicious and healthy!
Rinse the slippery pumpkin seeds in a colander once they are
taken out of the pumpkin. Then, spread them on a cookie
sheet in a single layer. They should not be on top of
each other to insure even roasting. Spray the seeds
lightly with olive oil spray, and salt lightly. Put the
seeds into a pre-heated oven at 350 degrees. Roast until
they are lightly browned. You may want to give the cookie
sheet a little shake after about 10 minutes to turn the seeds
over. Shake the cookie sheet from side to side to make
the pumpkin seeds sit in an even layer again. The seeds
are ready when they are lightly crunchy and easy to chew.
They should be a golden brown color. Roasted pumpkin
seeds do not need shelling; they can be eaten as they are.
After roasting, the seeds can be cooled and put into an
airtight plastic container and they will stay fresh and lightly
crunchy for about 3-4 weeks. Munch the seeds instead of
popcorn for a healthy movie-watching treat. Or pack them
in school lunches. Roasted pumpkin seeds are also a
delicious topping for soups such as tomato, squash or cream
soups.
Pumpkin seeds are the seeds of a pumpkin, which is in the
squash family. Therefore, you can also roast squash seeds
from any of a wide variety of squashes, such as acorn, peanut,
and spaghetti squashes with the same results.
Pumpkin seeds and squash seeds provide fiber and omega oils
which are very beneficial to the body. Don’t throw away
those seeds the next time you carve a pumpkin or make
squash!
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