Whipped pumpkin seeds?

[jolenegreen]

I read somewhere online about someone whipping together pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds to get a spread. Does anyone know how this is done?

[eepster]

It tried it in my food processor. The texture was OK, but not great. The flavor was oddly not like eating whole pumpkin seeds and whole sun flower seeds , I didn't like it very much and DS really disliked it.

[jolenegreen]

Thanks a bunch...so I take it that it didnt come out a spread like texture?

[eepster]

Originally Posted by jolenegreen

Thanks a bunch...so I take it that it didnt come out a spread like texture?

Spreadable, but not a pleasing as peanutbutter, or other commonly available nut/seed butters. It was kind of dry and gritty. It may have been partly the limits of how well a food processor can grind a nut/seed butter, but it may also just be the nature of pumpkin seeds.

I do often grind sesame seeds in my food processor to make tahini. That works fine, but it stains the processor, and I need to let it rest sometimes. Since I usually am making the tahini to go into hummus anyway, I find that it's much easier on the processor if I add olive oil, but then the tahini is very runny.

Sometimes I use some sunflower seeds to bulk up the sesame seeds, when I don't have enough or am just feeling cheap, and that works fine texture wise too.