Sikil Pak (Mayan Dip)

Ingredients

Directions

1. Step 1: Toast pumpkin seeds: put pumpkin seeds on a pan with no oil at medium heat stirring often until gold and toasted for 3 - 5 minutes. Set aside to cool.
2. Step 2: Roast habanero pepper: add the habanero pepper whole to pan on medium-high heat until charred and soft in middle, about 10 - 15 minutes.
3. Step 3: Allow habanero pepper to cool enough to destem and deseed it.
4. Step 4: Reserve seeds for topping
5. Step 5: Blend pepitas into powder, set aside
6. Step 6: Add orange and lime juice, blend
7. Step 7: Add tomatoes, peppers, salt, lime juice, orange juice into blender. Blend
8. Step 8: Pour blended mixture into bowl
9. Step 9: Slowly add pepitas into bowl and mix
10. Step 10: Top with pepitas, cilantro, onions, etc

Tips

• Toast pepitas carefully: Be mindful of the temperature and timing when toasting the pepitas. Stir almost constantly. They tend to toast unevenly and burn quickly.
• Test 1: test 1
• Test 2: Testing 2 Jan 9
• Test 3: test 3 Jan 15