This roasted butternut squash with brown sugar recipe is the easiest way to cook squash and it's so tasty. You don't even have to peel or dice it. The butternut squash halves are brushed with butter, topped with brown sugar and roasted whole.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Cut the stem off the top of the butternut squash. Cut the squash in half vertically. Using a spoon scoop out the seeds and goop.
Melt the butter. Mix together the brown sugar and pumpkin pie spice.
Generously brush the top and crevice of each half with melted butter then generously spread on the brown sugar. Make sure to generously spread it in the crevice as well.
Roast on a sheet pan until the squash is fork tender about 54 minutes.
Once cool enough to handle scoop some squash onto a plate, sprinkle with salt and drizzle some of the extra butter that pooled in the crevice on it. Enjoy immediately.