These Sriracha & Maple Roasted Mixed Nuts are the perfect amount of hot and sweet. They’re great for a party appetizer or edible gift this holiday season!
Sometimes you feel like a nut and sometimes you eat so many nuts that you think you might turn into one. The latter is how you will feel after you eat these sriracha & maple nuts! And trust me, that is a good thing.
Raise your hand if you are one of those people who puts sriracha on everything! I knew there were a few of you out there! I didn’t discover sriracha until college and I’ve been hooked ever since. At the time, I was in my ‘put ranch dressing over everything’ phase and the heat of sriracha went perfectly with the ranch dressing. 
After college I managed to grow out of my ranch dressing phase, but the sriracha has stayed with me ever since. I’m not quite sure why it is so addicting and loved by so many people, but it just is! It adds a nice heat without being overpowering or adding any other strange flavors that might take away from the main dish. I could probably go on an on about my love of sriracha, but I’m guessing that many of you out there feel the same way I do about it, so I will spare you. But, if you are wondering what the heck I’m talking about, I suggest you go get yourself a big bottle of it and give it a try!
We eat a lot of nuts in our house and as much as I adore a simple roasted and salted, or even raw, nut, I also really love all the fancy flavors that they are coming out with these days. Unfortunately, most of them have a billion ingredients in them, half of which I can’t even pronounce. Also, most of them don’t seem to be gluten free, which makes me really sad. I want to eat fun flavored nuts too!
I’m a huge sucker for a sweet and salty combo and do you know what is even better than sweet and salty?? Sweet, salty, and spicy! These flavors go so well together and the maple syrup makes them ooey and gooey and sticky and delicious. I’m warning you now, you will want to eat the entire batch in one sitting.
Before I leave you with the recipe I will warn you of one more thing. If you are a fellow sriracha lover, you might be familiar with the recent press that the sriracha plant has been getting. If not, I will fill you in. Apparently the sriracha factory emits a strong odor of cooking chili peppers that irritates the noses and eyes of some residents of the California town. There was a lawsuit started to try to get the factory moved, but from what I can remember, they lost and the factory stayed in place. Why am I telling you about this? When you open the oven to flip the nuts during the cooking process you might get a big wiff of hot sriracha sauce, so be careful and don’t stick your head in right away. Unless you are a super sriracha addict and that sounds pleasant to you!
Sriracha & Maple Roasted Mixed Nuts
- Total Time: 50 minutes
- Yield: 8 1x
- Diet: Vegan
Description
These Sriracha & Maple Roasted Mixed Nuts are the perfect amount of hot and sweet. They’re great for a party appetizer or edible gift this holiday season!
Ingredients
- 3 cups roasted, unsalted mixed nuts, your favorite kinds
- 1 tablespoon sriracha sauce*
- 2 1/2 tablespoons pure maple syrup
- 2 teaspoons canola oil
- 1 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 325 degrees F. Line a large sheet pan with parchment paper. Place nuts on top of the parchment paper and add sriracha, maple syrup, canola oil, and salt. Toss to coat with your fingers.
- Place the nuts into the oven and bake for about 20 minutes, tossing a few times with a spatula to make sure they don’t all stick together.
- Once you have taken the nuts out of the oven, let them sit for about 20 minutes so they can harden up, but toss them around a few times while they cool or you may end up with one big mass of nuts.
Notes
*You can use more sriracha sauce depending on how spicy you want them to be.
- Prep Time: 30 mins
- Cook Time: 20 mins
- Category: Snack, Gluten Free, Vegan
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Mine stayed sticky and I followed recipe exactly. Even put them back in oven and added more time after I took them out of oven. I made sure they weren’t clumped together also
I’m sorry to hear that, were they still sticky even after letting them cool for a bit?
I’m making these for the third time in three weeks right now! My husband and I can’t get enough of them. Even the time I accidentally bumped the temperature up to 350 and kind of burned them, they were still great!
I took your suggestion and toasted the pecans on a dry skillet. Worked perfectly.
Thanks so much for the excellent (and addicting) recipe!
Hi Niki! I haven’t made them for a while, but when I first came up with them I made them like ten times in one week and just could not stop eating them! I’m so glad you guys like them! You are making me want to make a batch now! 🙂
These look absolutely amazing. I was wondering if raw nuts would be okay instead of roasted? I have a huge bag of raw pecans that I need to do something with.
Thank you, Niki!! I haven’t made them with raw nuts before, but I might toast them up just a little bit first to ensure that the nuts are crispy! I hope you enjoy them 🙂
These are so amazing! I’ve made them twice this weekend and given away snack treats of these. I am so happy to have tried them! I think I will be making them weekly for a while! Thank you for this recipe!
Thank you so much, Lisa! When I was testing this recipe I made about ten batches and just couldn’t stop eating them! I haven’t made them in a while, but am thinking I need to soon! I’m so glad you loved them! Thank you so much for your comment 🙂
Made these earlier this week with some cashews, almonds, sunflower seeds and peanuts. I even added a few raisins in there for some chewiness.
Anyway, they are delicious and I will make them again. I don’t think I measured anything super precisely, but I got about 4 snack-sized ziplocs from my batch. Thank you!
Hi Cait!! I’m so happy to hear that you liked them! I love the addition of the sunflower seeds and especially the raisins, I’ll have to throw some of those in next time! I tend to just throw things in and not measure much either, I think that is how some of the best recipes are made!
Thank you so much for letting me know that you made them and that you enjoyed them! That made my day 🙂
OH MY!! You have outdone yourself with this recipe! Siracha maple nuts? What an amazing idea! I literally cannot wait to try this. I love putting siracha on pretty much everything! Can’t wait to try! Salty and sweet together are one of my fav. combos ever! Pinned!
Aww, thank you so much Ceara! They are really so good and addicting that I finally had to cut myself off after three batches! I think it is about time I make some more though 🙂 Thanks for pinning! I hope you love them!
Duuuuuude – my husband will be all over these!
My husband was all over them too, at least the ones I decided I would share with him 🙂
Izzy! I also outgrew my ranch phase, but I don’t even know if I’ve tried sriracha. Sadness! I read about the sriracha shortage last year and then they decided to bring it back bc people loved it so much. Anywho, I need to try some! And there’s NOTHING better than sweet/salty. Nothing! Even in desserts. I sometimes top cupcakes with sea salt because I like it that much -that stays between you and I, girlfriend 😉 Love this recipe! Love nuts! And love your photos! They really POP.
Al!! It is so crazy to think how I used to drown everything with ranch dressing! I think I lost about 10 pounds when I finally stopped eating it, ha! You must try sriracha! It is spicy but has such a great flavor, I love adding it to sauces and dressings, and really pretty much everything! I love the sweet and salty combo too! Sometimes I eat with corn chips with a side of chocolate, they just seem to make eachother taste so much better! Sea salt on cupcakes sounds ammmmazing! Thanks so much, girl! xoxo!
Isadora, these look soooooooo good! #srirachaforever
Haha! I love that hashtag! Thank you, Emma 🙂
Right now would be the perfect time for a big handful of these nuts. It looks amazing and so smart to use sriracha in this way!
Thanks Monica! Every time is a perfect time for a big handful of these, ha!
Yup, I am definitely one of those people who puts sriracha on everything!! Hand raised!!
These nuts would last about 2.5 seconds at our house – they sound ridiculously good!
Sriracha lovers unite!! They didn’t last long here either, I was eating them for breakfast and snacking on them at all hours of the day. I think it is time for another batch!
These look so delicious. I love sriracha so I will obviously love these too!
Thanks Ami! You will for sure love these then 🙂
I heard that there was a sriracha shortage at the moment, too? Not sure if it’s true and if so, why …
It’s funny that I’m reading this today, because just this morning I was thinking about whether it was possible to eat too many nuts! (I mean, whether it’s bad for your health or anything) Because … some days I’m sure I eat too many of them! (in my oatmeal, in a granola bar, just as a handful for a quick and not-too-unhealthy snack)
Anyway, loving this maple and sriracha combo. It sounds totally addictive!
Hi Helen! I feel like I remember hearing something like that too, maybe it had something to do with moving the plant? Thankfully I have a big bottle in the refrigerator right now! Haha, That is a good question! I have a really sensitive stomach and sometimes if I eat too many I get a stomach ache, I think it is all the fiber, maybe? Which is too bad, because they really are the perfect snack and I could eat them all the time!
This is such a great idea, Izzy! We are obsessed with sriracha and sweet, salty and spicy is so so good! This batch would not last long at our house for sure – it looks incredible!
Thank you, Kelly! This batch didn’t last long at my house either, and the two batches after this one lasted even less time 🙂