If you are wondering what one does when vacationing in the Lebanese mountains, this is one activity; plucking seeds from sunflowers and eating them raw with a six-year old niece who is just as eager as I to partake in the fun.
I was trying to show Marie (said niece) how to extract the seed by gnawing on their black shell with one’s front two teeth; her response was: “but look, Tante Joumana, I lost my two front teeth!”, with a bin grin to show me that indeed they were gone. Well, Marie, being a resourceful child, said: “No problem, I will use my side teeth!”.
Crunch, crunch, crunch.
Just wait a bit for your sunflowers to be ripe to get their seeds picked.
Did you know the sunflower seeds contain 52% of iron? (per 100 g.) and 230% of Vitamin E? (Wikipedia)
A great recipe for roasted (and salted) sunflower seeds is found here.
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Are you pulling the seeds from the center of the flower? I never thought about harvesting sunflower seeds in the field. Must be the peak of freshness!
@T.W. you just pluck them out, one seed at a time; I’m sure there’s a more efficient way though!
@Scott: any time!
I adore these…especially chocolate-covered ones!
They look delicious! Never tried them raw..will have to come and visit to have a handful.!
trying raw sunflower seed is quite good, in some way it tastes like raw walnut. If you fry it in the pot with some salt on it, it also becomes more tasty as well.
Ha! The squirrels usually get most of my sunflower seeds before I notice they’re ready to harvest.
I never roasted sunflower seeds, my husband loves these seed
Nice pictures Joumana…hope you are having a nice week!
Très amusante cette cueillette avec Marie
je ne savais pas que les graines de tournesol étaient aussi riches en fer et vit.E. Merci.