Cooking Tips with Pumpkin Seed Oil: How to Bring Styrian Flavor to Your Kitchen

As a salad oil, Pumpin Seed Oil is a classic ingredient in Styria, Austria and far beyond. However, Pumpkin Oil is also used for the refinement of a wide variety of dishes, both for starters and for main dishes and even for desserts.

The most important is the quality. If you buy Pumpkin Seed Oil, always pay attention to the "Protected Geographical Indication" label. This seal of approval shows that you receive Styrian quality. And you can feel the difference in taste, because only the Styrian pumpkin seeds from the protected geographic cultivation areas, which have grown in the unique climate and on energetic clay soils, give the genuine Styrian Pumpkin Seed Oil. Other oils, on the other hand, are very shallow and tasteless.

Here are a few tips for Cooking with Pumpkin Seed Oil

• Leave the pan in the cupboard! To keep the valuable ingredients and the full flavor of pumpkin seed oil it should not be heated. Therefore, it's usually not used for cooking and frying, but to refine dishes at the end just before they are eaten.
• If you need to heat pumpkin oil for special dishes (like Steirische Eierspeise, Styrian Scrambled Egg), just make sure that the oil is not exposed to heat for a long time, rather pour it into the scrambled egg after cooking.
• Many gourmets love pumpkin seed oil in salads as a marinade or dressing ingredient. In creme soups (see picture) or in spreads, Pumpkin Seed Oil acts like a natural flavor enhancer. Let yourself be inspired in our Pumpkin Seed Oil Recipe collection!
• Probably you wouldn't expect it, but pumpkin seed oil also suits sweet food. Two popular ideas are vanilla ice cream with pumpkin seed oil or fried bananas with pumpkin seed oil.

We invite you to try the huge variety of possibilities of Styrian Pumpkin Seed Oil in your next cooking experiment. Good Appetite!