Air Fryer Baklava
Ingredients
Pastry
- 1 lb phyllo dough
- 100 grams butter unsalted
- 40 ml vegetable oil or sunflower oil
- 1 cup nuts, walnuts, pistachio, almonds and cashews
- ½ teaspoon salt
Salted caramel syrup
- 50 grams light brown sugar
- ½ teaspoon lemon juice
- 150 ml maple syrup
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
- 225 ml water
Preparation
- First make syrup by mixing all the salted caramel syrup ingredients in a pan.
- Bring it to boil and simmer for 5 minutes while stirring constantly.
- Leave it aside for later use.
- Then make the filling by placing nuts and pinch of salt in the food processor. Pulse them until they are coarse. Leave it aside.
- Now cut the phyllo pastry according to your baking tray/pan size. Simply by putting a tray over the pastry and cutting it with the sharp knife.
- Don't throw away sides of the pastry, will use in the middle layer of the baklava.
- Heat butter in a bowl in microwave or in the pan over stove top.
- Add vegetable oil and mix well.
- Grease the tray base by brushing the butter oil mixture.
- Layer two sheets of phyllo and gently brush it up with butter oil mixture.
- Repeat this until you have laid and brushed up 10 pastry sheets in total.
- Then a layer of nuts filling.
- Now layer the pastry with cut phyllo and brush up with butter mix.
- Again, do a thin layer of nuts.
- Then the final layer of 10 phyllo sheets.
- Slice the baklava pastry in whatever shape you like using a very sharp knife.
- Pour the remaining butter and oil mixture over the cut pastry.
- Preheat air fryer at 190C or 375F for 5 minutes.
- Cover the baking tray with kitchen foil but don't press it.
- Put some beans on top.
- Air fry/bake them for 20-25 minutes or until nice and golden.
- Once done pour the syrup all over the baked baklava.
- Let the syrup soak at room temperature for a minimum of 3 hours before serving.
- garnish it with chopped nuts and dry rose petals