Air Fry Your Christmas

With the festive season already right here, it’s anxious to plan what you’re going to serve at Christmas lunch or convey alongside to your events. It’s much more anxious determining how to cook dinner it. If in case you have restricted oven and range area, Philips has acquired you sorted with their scrumptious air fried Christmas recipes.

Chef and Philips Kitchen ambassador Elle Vernon has whipped up some superb Christmas recipes in your Air Fryer.

The Philips Air Fryer XXL can cook dinner meals 1.5 instances sooner than a daily typical oven which suggests you’ll be able to spend much less time within the kitchen and extra time celebrating along with your family members.

From air fried caramelised onion star puff canapés to Elle’s air fried cherry and rosemary glazed ham, try the mouth-watering recipes beneath.

Caramelised onion star puff canapés (makes 14)

Preparation and cooking time: 40 minutes 

What you’ll want:

• 2 sheets frozen puff pastry, partially thawed
• 1 tablespoon caramelised onion relish, plus further 1 tablespoon
• 1 teaspoon dried Italian herbs
• 1 teaspoon sesame seeds
• Salt and pepper, to season

Advised tomato topping concepts

• Spreadable cream cheese
• Diced cherry tomatoes
• Basil leaves

Advised salmon topping concepts 

• Spreadable cream cheese
• Torn sliced smoked salmon
• Very finely diced purple onion
• Dill sprigs

Instructions:

1. Use a 7.5cm star cutter to chop out 14 stars from one sheet of pastry.
2. Spoon a small quantity of relish into the centre of seven stars. Place a second star on prime.
3. Gently push every star stack right into a Philips Baking Grasp Equipment, silicone mould, then prepare within the Philips Important XL Air Fryer. Set temperature to 160°C and time to fifteen minutes. Press the dial in to start cooking. As soon as cooked, put aside for two minutes then take away from moulds and put aside.
4. Repeat step 1, 2 and three.
5. Spoon the additional relish into the centre of the cooked pastry stars. Sprinkle with herbs, sesame seeds and season with salt and pepper. Organize within the Air Fryer basket, in a single layer. Set temperature to 180C and time to 4 minutes. Press the dial in to start cooking. As soon as cooked, put aside to chill fully.
6. Prime along with your selection of topping and serve.

Cherry and rosemary glazed ham (serves 6-8)

Preparation and cooking time: 35 minutes

What you’ll want:

• ½ cup cherry preserve
• ¼ cup brown sugar
• 2 teaspoon Dijon mustard
• 2 rosemary sprigs
• 1.2-1.5kg piece boneless smoked leg ham, twine and/or netting eliminated
• Rosemary, bay leaves and cherries, to garnish

Instructions:

1. Mix preserve, sugar, mustard and rosemary in a small saucepan.
2. Prepare dinner, stirring often over excessive warmth for five minutes till bubbly and barely thickened. Fastidiously pour right into a heatproof bowl. (You may make this the day earlier than, cowl it, and depart it at room temperature.)
3. Place ham on a bit of baking paper and brush with just a little of the glaze. Fastidiously switch ham to the basket of the Philips Important XL Air Fryer. Set temperature to 180C and time to 10 minutes. Press the beginning button to start cooking. Baste with just a little extra glaze, and set the time for an extra 10 minutes.
4. Switch ham to a serving platter. Garnish with cherries, bay leaves and further rosemary sprigs. Serve with remaining glaze on the aspect so as to add as desired.

Various methodology:

• You possibly can pre-slice your ham and layer it in a baking tray that matches contained in the Air Fryer basket.
• Brush the ham generously with the glaze.
• Set the Philips Important XL Air Fryer temperature to 180C and time to 10 minutes.
• Brush with just a little extra glaze and cook dinner for an extra 5 minutes or till golden. Serve.

Chef’s tip:

• Don’t get carried away on the grocery store and purchase a ham that’s larger than your Air Fryer basket! Nonetheless, if you happen to do uncover that the ham you got is simply too huge, merely slice it to suit.

Christmas raspberry and mango baked cheesecake (serves 12)

Preparation and cooking time: 1 hour plus cooling time

What you’ll want:

• 540g store-bought square-shaped mild fruit cake
• 1 tablespoon coconut flavoured white rum
• 2 x 250g blocks cream cheese, chopped, at room temperature
• ¾ cup icing sugar combination
• 3 further massive eggs
• ½ cup frozen raspberries, thawed
• 200ml thick dollop cream
• 1 mango, flesh very thinly sliced into ribbons
• 125g punnet raspberries
• Mint leaves, to garnish

Instructions:

1. Grease the bottom and sides of the Philips XXL baking grasp equipment accent tray with spray oil. Line the bottom and a couple of sides with a single piece of baking paper, making certain paper doesn’t lengthen excessive of the tray.
2. Minimize the cake into 1cm thick sq. slices. Place one complete sq. into the baking tray. Then reduce remaining squares into smaller items to fill the remaining area within the tray. Drizzle with rum. Put aside remaining cake for one more use.
3. Beat cream cheese in a big bowl utilizing an electrical hand beater till clean. Add sugar, beat once more till mixed. Add eggs and beat till clean.
4. Spoon cream cheese combination excessive of the cake, and clean floor.
5. Place raspberries in a bowl and squash and smoosh them till they change into pulpy. Drizzle excessive of the cream cheese, then use a fork to swirl them by.
6. Set Philips Important XL Air Fryer temperature to 155C and time to 40 minutes. Press the beginning button to start cooking. The cake must be barely puffed, golden and nonetheless have a slight wobble within the centre. It would set firmly as soon as cooled.
7. Permit to chill to room temperature then refrigerate till chilled – 2 hours or in a single day.
8. Simply earlier than serving, prime with cream, mango and contemporary raspberries. Garnish with mint leaves and serve.

Chef’s tip:

• You would additionally make this cake in an 18cm sq. cake tin.

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