How can I roast melon seeds, without oven or too much oil?

How can I roast melon seeds, without oven or too much oil? - Appetizing burger in hot oven

My mom lives Hong Kong when Toronto's cold. Here are strictures:

  1. Healthy frying is OK. But NO deep-frying.

  2. Her HK flat doesn't have a convection oven. She never bought microwave oven.

  3. She could buy a counter-top convection toaster oven, but she feels it's too eco-unfriendly and waste of money. Let's rule it out for now. If nobody comes up anything, she will reconsider. She has a rice cooker. Her kitchen looks like

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This Salon.com article recommends roasting honeydew and cantaloupe seeds. My mom wants to roast seeds in pricey Japanese melons.

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Best Answer

I've sometimes toasted pumpkin seeds (very similar) in an enamelled cast iron frying pan. I don't add oil to the pan, but the seeds are better if you mix a little oil with them, especially if you want spices to stick. In that case stir about a teaspoon of oil (olive, sunflower etc.) into a generous handful of seeds, add any spices/salt, put into a preheated pan, and stir frequently until they're done.

I wouldn't use non stick for this because a dry pan can get very hot in places, perhaps too hot, but bare stainless steel also works.

This stove top method is quicker than an oven especially if you only want a small batch, but it's more important to start with the seeds nicely dry than if you're using an oven. It probably uses more electricity than a toaster oven though.



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How do you roast melon seeds?

Directions
  • Roasted Watermelon Seeds.
  • Soak the seeds in extremely salty water for about an hour.
  • Preheat oven to 320\xb0F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Drain the seeds and pat dry. ...
  • Roast seeds for about 20 minutes, until the oil has evaporated, and they look a little dried out. Cool completely before eating.


    • Can u roast melon seeds?

    It's important to roast the cantaloupe seeds at a low temperature to make them addictively crunchy without burning them. For every half cup of seeds, toss them with a teaspoon of olive oil followed by your favorite spice blend.

    Can you dry and eat melon seeds?

    Preparation. Melon seeds are lightly dry-roasted and eaten as a salted snack. In the West they are associated with health food, savoury bakes and vegetarian recipes, and also sprinkled onto bread loaves.


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