Pepitas look a lot like pumpkin seeds, and some people use the terms interchangeably. They crop up in granola recipes, taste fantastic on salads and make an excellent garnish for fall soup recipes.

Pumpkin seeds are edible seeds from pumpkins and other varieties of gourd squash. The seeds are cream colored, flat, and oval with a nutty, slightly sweet flavor. They are roasted, salted, and ...

Pepitas are a type of pumpkin seed, but you won’t find them hiding in just any pumpkin. They are not, as many people think, the inside part of every pumpkin seed. Instead, pepitas actually grow ...

Because pepitas are shelled pumpkin seeds, right? After excavating these little seeds from their unyielding white exterior in indeed a really strenuous manner (is this how they do it for mass ...

But roasted, hulled pumpkin seeds (properly known as pepitas) are a delicious, nutty backbone of many Mexican dishes and are well worth getting to know. And thanks to the popularity of Hispanic ...

But roasted, hulled pumpkin seeds (properly known as pepitas) are the delicious, nutty backbone of many Mexican dishes and are well worth getting to know. And thanks to the popularity of Hispanic ...

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