Air fryers have grown in recognition previously yr with greater than 74,000 Google searches for air fryer recipes a month.
With this in thoughts Wren Kitchens has put collectively some festive air fryer recipes.
Air fryer Brussels sprouts
Take away the core and the surface pores and skin of the Brussels sprouts and place them into your air fryer. Cook dinner for 10 minutes at 180°C/360f.
Whereas the Brussels sprouts are cooking, cube your bacon. Take away all seen fats and place them within the air fryer when it beeps.
Now prepare dinner for an extra 5 minutes at 200°C/400f.
Serve with salt and pepper.
Peel the potatoes and reduce into 4cm chunks. Rub potatoes dry with a clear tea towel.
Place potatoes within the basket of the air fryer. Spray effectively with oil , toss, then spray once more.
Cook dinner at 180°C for quarter-hour. Shake basket.
Enhance warmth to 200°C and prepare dinner for an extra 10 minutes or till golden and crisp.
Serve the potatoes seasoned with salt.
1 small granny smith apple, peeled, cored, coarsely grated
165g (3/4 cup, firmly packed) brown sugar
45g (1/4 cup) blanched almonds, toasted, finely chopped
2 tbsp pink glace cherries, finely chopped
For the candy shortcut pastry:
300g (2 cups) plain flour
55g (1/4 cup) caster sugar
185g butter, chilled, chopped
Use your palms to squeeze extra moisture from the apple. Switch to a bowl.
Add the brown sugar, sultanas, currants, almond, cherries, peel, combined spice, cinnamon, butter, and gin. Stir effectively to mix. Put aside for 1 hour to permit flavours to develop.
In the meantime, place the flour, sugar and butter in a meals processor and course of till combination resembles nice breadcrumbs.
Add the egg yolk (reserve the egg white) and milk, and course of till the dough simply comes collectively.
Flip the dough onto a calmly floured floor and knead till easy. Roll out the pastry between 2 sheets of baking paper till 3mm thick.
Use a spherical 8cm-diameter pastry cutter to chop 18 instances from the pastry. Line eighteen, 2.5cm deep, 4cm (base) 7cm (prime) loose-based patty pans.
Reroll leftover pastry between 2 sheets of baking paper till 3mm thick. Use a spherical 7cm-diameter pastry cutter to chop 18 additional discs from the pastry.
Switch the fruit combination to a nice sieve over a bowl and stir to take away extra liquid. Divide fruit combination amongst pastry instances.
Beat egg white till frothy. Brush pastry discs with a bit egg white.
Prime pastry instances, egg white-down, with pastry discs. Press edges to seal, trimming any extra pastry.
Reroll any leftover pastry and use a 6.5cm star cutter to chop 18 stars. Brush tops with a bit of the remaining egg white.
Place a star on the highest of every pie. Brush the celebrities with egg white.
Preheat a 7-litre air fryer to 160°C for 3 minutes.
Rigorously place 6 mince pies within the basket. Cook dinner for quarter-hour or till the pastry is golden and crisp.
Repeat, in two extra batches, with the remaining pies. Switch to a wire rack to chill utterly.
Mud the pies with icing sugar to serve.
Air fryer pigs in blankets
Take away packaging out of your bacon and sausages. Slice huge sausages in half, if choosing huge sausages.
Load into your air fryer basket.
Cook dinner for 8 minutes at 180°C/360f.
