How to Roast Hazelnuts

How to roast hazelnuts in oven without shell, air fryer or in a pan is here! Enjoy toasted nuts as a healthy snack or crush and use in cookies or other Nutella Bread in the batter and on top as a beautiful garnish too.

Roasted Hazelnuts without Shell

I’ve been sharing a lot of cooking basics recently because I never really started from the beginning. Now that I am in year 10, it was time to roll it back and talk about how to do all the things. From roasted jalapenos, to veggies and now nuts we hope this helps in your kitchen journey.

Whether we want to add a little bit of crunchy topping to Libbys pumpkin muffins or make a batch cookies, it is nice to be able to do it all homemade.

Most bagged varieties are already shelled and roasted, they are much more expensive than if you do that yourself. I remember vividly at my Grandparents house having a huge bowl of nuts with a cracker right beside it at Christmas time. This is the way to go if you want to go all out, and involve your kids too!!

What You Need for Roasting Hazelnuts

• You can find raw hazelnuts online here
• You’ll need a nut cracker like this one here too
• A rimmed baking sheet if using your oven
  • I like a cast iron pan for the stove
  • Or an air fryer if you’re going that direction

How do I crush my own nuts?

If you want them crushed when done you can go old school with a mortar and pestle. Better is a bowl with a pastry cutter to push down and break them into smaller bits. Easier than anything is a small food processor.

How Long to Roast Hazelnuts in the Oven

• Carefully crack the shells open and remove the skin if desired
• Some shells have two nuts! If the nut cracks in half, it’s ok, they can still be roasted.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Spread on a baking sheet with parchment paper to roast until they are lightly browned

Store in a ziploc bag or airtight container when cooled. I will speak more about storing freshly roasted nuts below. You can use this method for roasted pine nuts or other varieties too.

Air Fryer Directions

1. Preheat your machine to 325 degrees F.
2. Crack nuts over a clean kitchen towel or dish towel, leave as is or use towel to remove hazelnut skins from outside.
3. Fill basket so they aren’t overlapping
4. Roast nuts in air fryer cook times will depend on the variety used, timing is;
   1. almonds take about 6 minutes stirring halfway thru timing for each
   2. peanuts are 10 minutes
   3. air fryer hazelnuts will be at 6
   4. pine nuts are about 3 min

in a pan

1. You will want your skillet over medium low heat and lay unshelled hazelnuts in a single layer.
2. Heat, moving them around a bit every few minutes for about 6 – 8 minutes or until toasted.

How long should you cool roasted nuts?

If you are going to put into a food processor allow them to cool completely which will take about 15 minutes or so. In that you can add a bit of salt, brown sugar is a great addition for sweetness or go all out to make it into a crumb topping for muffins.

How to Use Toasted Hazelnuts

Just picture it. You are baking steel cut oats cookies because you are prepping for hosting a Christmas cookie exchange and you want to have something baking when guests arrive. Not only will it be a fun snack but it will make the house smell amazing.

How do you store nuts after roasting

Ok so you’ll likely have leftovers when you do this. You can use them for so many recipes so you will want them to stay fresh and not go rancid. This can happen quickly if left at room temperature. If you are going to use within 2 days, once cooled store in a freezer bag with all the air sucked out. Put into the fridge.

For something wet like our Crockpot boiled peanuts you need to cool and store in the fridge just for the week, then they will go bad no matter what.