What Can I Make With Sunflower Seeds
Thanks to some smart coupon shopping, I was able to get packs of roasted sunflower seeds for 15 cents each and stocked up since we occasionally like to snack on them. Now that they are sitting in my pantry, I’ve been wondering what I can do with them other than just snacking on them plain.
Here are my ideas so far:
- Sprinkle the sunflower seeds on salads for some extra crunch.
- Add them to muffin batter. I think it would go really well with some pumpkin or cranberry muffins.
- Make some trail mix out of sunflower seeds, dried fruit and dry cereal.
I’d appreciate any other ideas and any recipes you may have that include sunflower seeds.
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July 30th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
You already got the most obvious uses. Let me see…
Well, there’s Granola…
You could put them in bread for a little different texture,
Maybe if you ground them up you could do something with that.
And then of course, there’s arts & crafts. (Or at least for the shells, if you got that kind)
July 31st, 2008 at 2:33 pm
I love making trail mix from sunflower seeds… I always put em in there with peanuts and dried apricots…. mmm so yummy…
This is definitely a hard one though….
August 12th, 2008 at 1:38 am
There’s a special technique for eating sunflower seeds and, like most kids, I spent hours perfecting it. I’d stockpile a few salted unshelled seeds in one cheek like a squirrel, release them one at a time to crack their fragile armor with my front teeth, extract the kernels and manipulate the empty shells with my tongue to my other cheek for storage.
August 13th, 2008 at 11:22 am
I stumbled on this use quite by accident. I like to make stir fry meals and usually add water chestnuts at the end for a little crunch and tradition. I didn’t have any water chestnuts last time, so I grabbed the only thing I could find that would be crunchy, which were sunflower seeds. Turned out they were really tasty! Now I use them instead of water chestnuts.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:45 am
To be very true, All of them are pretty good ideas to use sunflower seeds. May be I should add them in my daily diet. I am just searching something useful about them and to know how to use them.
August 21st, 2008 at 2:28 pm
personally, i like it sprinkled over salads… but i think its best to just eat it as is… its a great past time activity…
August 22nd, 2008 at 10:21 am
I like using it for salads & making a snack mix. I use pretzels, seeds, nuts, & chex mix. It’s a yummy little snack!
May 6th, 2009 at 11:25 am
Looks tasty maybe I try it home with your step by step guide it can be easy. Thanks for sharing this interesting recipe!
May 7th, 2010 at 4:30 pm
you can also make a speical dip with them it was really good first you add hidden vally ranch or any other ranch of your choice and then smash the sun flower seeds really good and add it and stir it till you can’t see it or opitinal and you can have this with any craker or fruit or veggie
~reegan~