I like to use different types of flour in my kitchen. Thanks to variety of flour, you can get new interesting flavors and enrich your usual meal with various vitamins and minerals. Some times ago, I used gluten-free flours (incl. Pumpkin Seed Flour) only to create gluten-free recipes for people with intolerance. But now I use them more and more often for routine cooking. I replace half of the regular flour in recipes with rice flour, coconut and oat flour are good for baking. Almond flour has been especially popular in my kitchen lately.
One day in a health food store I saw a girl take several bags of pumpkin seeds flour. This interested me, because before I did not pay attention to this flour, although it was always on the shelf with the flour that I take! Strange, right? I also decided to try and bought it. This happened about two years ago. Since then, pumpkin flour has become a frequent guest in my kitchen as a versatile homemade flour, and I even began to grind it myself..
In terms of consistency and taste, pumpkin seed flour turned out to be a great almond flour substitute. However, these Flour is a little milder in taste. You can add pumpkin seeds flour to almost any dish. I like to enrich smoothies and breakfasts with it for extra benefits.
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Pumpkin seeds flour has a rich vitamin and mineral composition that is rarely found in other products. As a gluten free whole grain flour, it is an invaluable source of omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids, including alpha-linolenic acid. In addition to vitamins B, A, C, PP, K, pumpkin seed powder contains many micro- and macro elements. The most important property of pumpkin flour is that it serves as an excellent gluten free flour replacement for nut flours like almond, cashew, or macadamia flour, especially for people with intolerance. Pumpkin flour is a high protein low carb flour, containing nearly 40% vegetable protein. This gluten-free flour is recommended for people who do not eat food containing animal protein.
It’s often difficult to find a gluten free flour organic option like pumpkin flour that is guaranteed to be free of nut or gluten particles, so your best option is always to make your own gluten free flour homemade. It’s very simple, just follow the step-by-step instructions.
How to make Pumpkin Seeds Flour:
1.Grind the pumpkin seeds in a coffee grinder оr blender a spoon by spoon at a time until a meal is formed. Repeat for all volume of your seeds.
2. Run through a sifter (or a colander with smallish holes) to catch any big pieces and grind them again.
3.I recommend not grinding too much pumpkin flour at once, as it is best used fresh. But if you still have some extra, store pumpkin flour in an air tight container in the fridge for a few weeks, or in the freezer.
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Pumpkin Seeds Flour
Ingredients
- 10 oz pumpkin seeds
Instructions
- Grind the pumpkin seeds in a coffee grinder оr blender a spoon by spoon at a time until a meal is formed. Repeat for all volume of your seeds.
- Run through a sifter (or a colander with smallish holes) to catch any big pieces and grind them again.
- I recommend not grinding too much pumpkin seed flour at once, as it is best used fresh.But if you still have some extra, Store pumpkin seed flour in an air tight container in the fridge for a few weeks, or in the freezer.
Nutrition
What to cook with pumpkin seeds flour? What pumpkin seed is good for?
Pumpkin seed is used in baking and is great for low carb almond flour recipes as a substitute for regular flour.
It’s also good for homemade protein or energy bars.
Thickener for soups and sauces, breading excellent vitamin supplement for smoothies and drinks, for cookies and sweets, good for porridge and muesli
Good substitute for part of the flour in recipes
Is pumpkin seeds flour low carb?
Yes, Pumpkin seed flour is a fantastic gluten free flour low carb alternative for people avoiding traditional flours.
What is the best substitute for almond flour?
The best almond flour alternative gluten-free and nut-free is pumpkin seeds flour.
How to make pumpkin seeds from pumpkins
To make pumpkin seeds, scoop them out of a fresh pumpkin, rinse to remove the pulp and dry them. They can be roasted, planted or ground into flour for various uses.
What flour can I use if I have a nut intolerance?
Homemade Pumpkin Seed Flour won’t even contain any nut particles if you make it yourself.
Hi! Thank you so much for this info. I am eating way too much almond flour and am needing a substitute. So I have a question. I may have missed it above, but are you using raw pumpkin seeds to make the flower or are they roasted?
Thank you!
So if I am reading this correctly, you can use pumpkin seed flour the same as almond flour? Does it affect the taste too much? I can’t have any kind of nuts not even coconut so I am looking for a great alternative.
It is not a perfect sub. It does have a color difference (that is the biggest one. It does NOT make a pretty vanilla cake for example as it is green/greyish). There is also a taste difference, but I find it has worked with the ways I have tried it. I prefer it, in taste, to sunflower flour.
Hello Sophie,
I just today ground up my pumpkin seeds and thought, “Now what?”, so was perusing the internet for pumpkin seed meal recipes. I’m excited it can ‘double’ for almond flour!
But the reason I’m writing is because I wanted to tell you how fun it was to see your byline; when I read, “Sophie Worth is first and foremost a daughter of the King of kings…” I was tickled, and said “You go, girl!!” You’ve got first things first, with that!
Consider me your sister in Christ, and I hope we’ll meet in the King’s kingdom!
Thank you Sophie. Your piece on pumkin seed flour is enlightening and has opened up new vistas to me as regards nutrition.
. I am interested in pumpkin flour bread. Kindly send me the recipe for this. Also educate me on how to dry pumpkin seeds before I can make the flour.
. Amadin Abbe, Benin City, Nigeria.
Raw, not roasted as those usually have salt and oil added that can mess with recipes. Enjoy!
How many cups per pound? Is it equal cup-wise ?
I have never used fresh pumpkin seeds so I am not sure. I buy them already dried and hulled.
Hi Margo! Thanks for your sweet note 😀
I haven’t done a lot of baking with it as eggs were an issue around here for a while (we are just adding them back in and whites still give me grief, so that limits what we can do with grain free baking) but I have used it in crackers, and for breading, things like that!
thank you to taking the time to photograph and post this. I am trying to eat gluten and low carb but find many things call for almond flour – unfortunately almonds (but not other nuts) give me headaches. Am definitely going to try this – am really hoping it works as a sub for most almond flour/meal in recipes.
I am not sure I understand your question. Are you wondering how many cups of flour you get from a pound of seeds? I am not sure.
Are you wondering if it is equal cup for cup with regular (wheat) flour? The answer to that is no and I encourage you to find recipes that use nut flours. Are you wondering is it interchangeable cup-for-cup for almond flour? The answer is yes.
I hope I answered your question.
I hope so too! I have tried it in a few recipes. I am still not sure how my 1 year old does with eggs (they used to bother her a lot) so have not tried a lot of the recipes as they call for eggs.