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A savory mix of roasted nuts with sun-dried tomatoes and Italian seasonings, this Pizza Trail Mix is the ultimate snack. Vegan, gluten-free and paleo-friendly.
Hi from Brooklyn. Isaac and I are spending the weekend here to celebrate our birthdays — we’re staying with a friend and have a bunch of fun stuff planned. If you want to follow along, I’ll be sharing our adventures on Snap and Insta. (I’m eatingbirdfood on both.)
In the meantime, I have one last trail mix recipe for you to finish off Trail Mix Week. And you better believe I saved the best for last.
I actually didn’t have plans to make a pizza trail mix originally, but while whipping up the peanut butter and jelly trail mix recipe I spotted the bag of sun-dried tomatoes in the pantry and the idea immediately came to me. I’ve never seen sun-dried tomatoes used in trail mix, but I was pretty sure they would work well for a savory mix.
With the idea for a savory mix in mind, I searched my spice cabinet and was quickly drawn to spices and herbs you typically find on pizza like garlic, onion, oregano, basil and thyme. I started with those then added nutritional yeast. The nutritional yeast is critical — it gives the mix a cheesy flavor and really makes it taste like pizza! If you’re new to nutritional yeast, check out my notes about what it is and where to buy it on my Garlicky Kale Salad post.
I like pizza but I’m not usually drawn to pizza flavored things so I was expecting to like this mix, but wasn’t expecting it to be one my absolute favorites. Turns out, I was wrong. I can’t get enough of this savory mix. Everyone who’s tried it has really liked it as well. My trusty trail mix taste-tester, Alyssa, said this one was her favorite as well!
So there ya have it, if you only try one of the mixes from Trail Mix Week, I highly recommend trying this one. You won’t regret it.
Check out my roundup of trail mix recipes on EBF!
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I’m keen to make this ASAP! Just a thought though, do you think adding some dried fruit to this would introduce an interesting sweet/savoury contrast, or would that just be gross?
Hi Rachel – I think it would be interesting, but I honestly haven’t tried adding dried fruit and am not sure which would work, if any. I have lots of sweet/savory trail mix recipes on my website such as Mango Curry Trail Mix and Cajun Trail Mix. Let me know if you end up adding any dried fruit to the pizza trail mix or if you try any of these other trail mix recipes. Enjoy!
The nuts keep burning. Any ideas?
Oh no! I’d try less time… maybe start with 8 minutes?
Just made this and am currently (happily) burning my tongue eating them directly off the baking stone. So good! I bought pizza cashews from fresh market and didn’t like them, so I was apprehensive. These blow those out of the water! I’m sure they’ll be even better if I would let them cool before I finish them. ?
Can u use any mix of nuts? I have an almond sensitivity and just wondering if almonds are integral to the recipe
Do you ever convert these recipes to 21 Day Fix?
Hi Jeanette. Almost all the recipes I post are 21 Day Fix friendly, but unfortunately I don’t have the container breakdown posted for them. That said, I hope you’ll still try some of them. 🙂