Pepita Brittle with Maldon Salt

My relationship with my stepdad has had a large and amazing influence on me. He introduced me to so many new foods, and one of them was pepitas (pumpkin seeds). Pumpkin seeds are my dad’s favorite salty snack, and when I was growing up, every autumn he would scoop out the seeds from our pumpkins and toast them with my brother and me.

It was this memory that I was channeling during the MasterChef finale when I created my recipe for pepita brittle. In Mexico, pepita brit