Another delicious way of sneaking more nutrients into your diet is by adding
raw pumpkins seed butter to soups and sauces, it adds a good dash of rich flavours.
* for a nut - free version of this smoothie bowl, simply replace the nut butter with some coconut butter or a seed butter
e.g. pumpkin seed butter, tahini, etc..
It all started because I
wanted pumpkin seed butter and I couldn't buy it locally so I fired up my food processor and decided to make it myself.
While it's fairly easy and considerably cheap to make your own
raw pumpkin seed butter it will require a reasonably strong blender or food processor.
I have some raw
sprouted pumpkin seed butter in the fridge that would be perfect for making these, however I don't do well with rolled grains as I prefer being able to soak my grains first and then make them into homemade flours in my ever - so - well - used Vita - mix — what could I used in place of the rolled oats in this recipe (it sounds way to lovely to pass up making so I'm hoping you have a suggestion!)?
I've toyed with the idea of making my own
pumpkin seed butter in the past, especially after making these Cranberry Pumpkin Seed Energy Balls, but I just kept putting it off.
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There's like a billion recipes that include the combo which, btw potentially means there's like a billion peanut butter-less or peanut free recipes out there since you just
swap pumpkin seed butter or sunflower seed butter for peanut butter.
These Vegan
Peppermint Pumpkin Seed Butter Cups are nut free, sweet and creamy and have just the right amount of peppermint without it overpowering the chocolate.
Use in fruit smoothies: vanilla soymilk + frozen mango + canned pumpkin
+ pumpkin seed butter + cinnamon.
This particular smoothie contained chard, hemp seeds, a spoonful of
Creamy Pumpkin Seed Butter, pear, avocado, vanilla, stevia, and cinnamon.
12g oats (gluten - free or regular) 10g whey protein powder 5 - 10g coconut flour 1 tsp vanilla essence 12g agave syrup 13 - 15g cocoa powder
16g pumpkin seed butter Splash of coffee (no more than a couple of teaspoons)
I've made all sorts of nut / seed butters but have not tried making
pumpkin seed butter yet (although I did buy a jar once... I think it's still sitting in my cupboard... oops!).
Would glycerin work, goat milk, honey, a soft butter
like pumpkin seed butter or coffee butter and jojoba oil not a greasy oil?
I made a few adjustments... didn't have almond butter so I used
pumpkin seed butter which worked quite well, I am allergic to eggs so I used 6 quail eggs instead, and then used raw agave syrup in place of the honey.
If you are carving out your pumpkin for Halloween don't let your pumpkin seeds go to waste, check out my delicious Raw
Pumpkin Seed Butter Recipe.
My favourite way of
enjoying pumpkin seed butter is as easy as it gets, I simply spread it on my homemade Rye Sourdough Bread or crisp bread and top it with bananas or apples.