Spiced Mamra Trail Mix - All Earthen Story, No Filler

Most commercial trail mixes are held together by the weakest ingredients - salted cashews, sugar-coated raisins, and flavoured peanuts. This one is built from the best ingredients in the Earthen Story pantry: mamra almonds with their nutty richness, flax seeds with their omega-3, amla candy with its tangy immunity punch, and chaat masala to tie it all together with a flavour that makes you reach for another handful. Every ingredient in this mix is organic and traceable - the opposite of what a commercial trail mix label usually reveals. It takes ten minutes to make and lasts two weeks in a jar. For a seed-focused bar version that uses similar ingredients in a pressed format, the No-Bake Coconut Almond Bark is the same philosophy in a different form.

Ingredients

• ½ cup Earthen Story Mamra Almonds Shop ↗
• 2 tbsp Earthen Story Flax Seeds Shop ↗
• 8 - 10 pieces Earthen Story Amla Candy Chatpata, roughly broken Shop ↗
• 2 tbsp pumpkin seeds Shop ↗
• ½ tsp chaat masala
• ¼ tsp black pepper
• Pinch Himalayan pink salt
• ½ tsp ghee or coconut oil - for light roasting

Steps

1. Heat a dry pan on medium-low. Add mamra almonds and dry-roast for 4 - 5 minutes, stirring frequently, until they are warm and fragrant. They should not darken significantly - mamra almonds are best lightly roasted.
2. Add pumpkin seeds to the same pan and roast for another 2 minutes until they begin to pop lightly.
3. Add a half teaspoon of ghee or coconut oil and toss to coat the nuts and seeds lightly.
4. Remove from heat. Immediately add chaat masala, black pepper, and salt, and toss well. The spices toast gently in the residual heat.
5. Add flax seeds (no roasting needed - they are better raw for omega-3 preservation).
6. Allow to cool completely, then add broken amla candy pieces and toss gently.
7. Store in an airtight jar at room temperature for up to 2 weeks.

Key Benefits

• Mamra almonds for concentrated vitamin E and healthy fats The higher oil content of mamra badam makes them a richer source of vitamin E per serving than California almonds. Vitamin E is a fat-soluble antioxidant that protects cell membranes from oxidative damage - particularly relevant in a high-stress, high-screen desk environment.
• Amla candy for vitamin C and immune support Amla is the richest whole-food source of vitamin C in the Indian diet. The candy form makes it portable and snackable - each piece provides meaningful vitamin C alongside the tart, tangy flavour that makes this trail mix genuinely interesting. Vitamin C and vitamin E together form one of the most powerful antioxidant pairs in human nutrition - this trail mix delivers both in one handful.
• Flax seeds raw for intact omega-3 Organic flax seeds are added at the end without roasting to preserve their ALA omega-3 fatty acids. Heat degrades these fragile polyunsaturated fats - adding them cold to the warm trail mix is a small but nutritionally significant decision that most commercial products get completely wrong.

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