It’s that time of year again when the pumpkin spice lovers make their obsession known and bakers experiment with everything pumpkin and large squash! I’m guilty of both of these, are you too? If you are then you know in addition to cooking and baking with pumpkin and squash, you can roast up the seeds for another little snack as well!
I love snacking on seeds or tossing them on top of salads. One of my favorite aspects of roasting pumpkin or squash seeds are the truly unlimited flavor profiles! You can keep it classic with salt, spice them up with chili powder and cayenne pepper, or stick with the seasonal favorite pumpkin spice. How do you season your seeds?
How To Roast Pumpkin & Squash Seeds
1 pumpkin or large squash
1 teaspoon coconut oil (approximately)
Salt
Optional Pumpkin Pie Spice Seasoning: Brown sugar and pumpkin pie spice
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 300F.
2. Scoop the seeds from the pumpkin or large squash.
3. Place seeds in a colander and pinch away flesh and strings.
4. Run colander under cold water and remove additional flesh, don’t worry about getting everything. Shake colander to remove excess water.
5. Dry the seeds using a paper towel, the seeds will stick to the towel but do your best to dry.
6. Transfer seeds to baking sheet and drizzle with oil then sprinkle with a nice pinch of salt. Toss so everything is coated then spread out in a single layer.
7. Roast until the seeds just start to brown, this should take about 25 minutes.
8. Remove seeds from oven and let cool on the sheet.
Optional Pumpkin Pie Spice Seasoning: Once seeds cool, toss with a little brown sugar. Not too much, you just want to lightly coat the seeds. Then sprinkle 1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice. Toss well then roast for another 10 minutes.
Enjoy once cool or store for a few days in an airtight container!
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Yum! I LOVE pumpkin seeds {such a great low carb snack to go!} but had no idea you could eat squash seeds too? That’s awesome. Thanks for sharing!
xoxo,
Piper Ellice @ piperellice.com
Starting Out Southern Blog
Yes!! Oh for sure, large squash like acorn and butternut 🙂
This is probably my favorite part of fall, once pumpkins are available in stores I can’t wait to cut them open and bake the seeds. Thank you for the recipe!
Totally!!!! 🙂 Happy October!
Love the sweet twist of this recipe. I always just used salt, now I have a new recipe to try this season!
Yay, enjoy!! 🙂
YUM!!! Roasted Pumpkin Seeds is the best part of carving a pumpkin 😉
Totally agree 🙂
Roasting pumpkin seeds is my favorite thing about Fall! I am a sweet and salty girl, so I usually add a little honey for some honey-roasted-yumminess!
Ohhh yum, I’m gonna have to try that!
I love this! I always want to do something with all of my squash seeds, and this is PERFECT!
Thank you so much, I’m thrilled you love this!
I am definitely in the “everything is better with pumpkin” camp 🙂 I had no idea it was so easy to roast pumpkin seeds – I can’t wait to give this a try!
Heck yes!! Oh yeah, for sure. Let me know what you think 🙂
I’ve honestly never roasted my own pumpkin seeds, but this is the year I’ll be doing it! Pinning this for when we buy our first pumpkin soon. 😉
Awesome!! Enjoy 🙂 Let me know what you think!
I’ve never fixed the seeds with brown sugar. I will have to try it!
Makes for a nice treat!
Looking forward to trying this with maple sugar!
Yum 🙂
Roasted seeds are my favorite snack in the fall! They’re so lovely on their own, or atop salads.
I totally agree!
I used to do this with my mom all the time when I was little. I’m going to try your recipe and make a batch myself this season. Thanks for the idea!
So great 🙂 You’re welcome!
Yum, I’m not a pumpkin spice fan but I love pumpkin seeds!
Awesome, they’re so yummy!
We LOVE roasting seeds every year! I will have to try out your recipe, it sounds really yummy!
I love playing with different flavors! Have fun 🙂
Perfect! I will be following this guide when we carve our pumpkins next week 🙂
Rae | Mindful Rambles
Awesome, have fun!!
I love eating them, so gotta try out this recipe to make my own! sounds relish!
Yay, thank you!
This is on my fall to do list! I can’t wait to make these!!
Yay!! Have fun!
I just roasted my first pumpkin a few days ago and I’m so glad I did! The homemade pumpkin butter is sooooo addictive!
Yesss! Wow, I need to try that 🙂
Yum! I love roasting pumpkin seeds in the fall!
Me too 🙂
Thanks for the recipe because I am looking for more healthier recipes to try!
Awesome, stay tuned! I’m sharing lots of healthier & lighter recipes soon 🙂
I am totally roasting pumpkin seed this Saturday!
Woo hoo, have fun!
We love roasting pumpkin seeds but have never added any spice to them before. This is a great idea!
Thanks 🙂 I hope y’all enjoy!
I love reading about easy recipes these days. This one’s perfect for the coming Halloween too. 🙂
Great 🙂 I’m glad you enjoyed it!!
YUM!!! I love pumpkin seeds – such a great post for fall!!! Thank you!
Thank you so much 🙂