Air Fryer Baklava

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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

  1. First make syrup by mixing all the salted caramel syrup ingredients in a pan.
  2. Bring it to boil and simmer for 5 minutes while stirring constantly.
  3. Leave it aside for later use.
  4. Then make the filling by placing nuts and pinch of salt in the food processor. Pulse them until they are coarse. Leave it aside.
  5. 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.
  6. Don't throw away sides of the pastry, will use in the middle layer of the baklava.
  7. Heat butter in a bowl in microwave or in the pan over stove top.
  8. Add vegetable oil and mix well.
  9. Grease the tray base by brushing the butter oil mixture.
  10. Layer two sheets of phyllo and gently brush it up with butter oil mixture.
  11. Repeat this until you have laid and brushed up 10 pastry sheets in total.
  12. Then a layer of nuts filling.
  13. Now layer the pastry with cut phyllo and brush up with butter mix.
  14. Again, do a thin layer of nuts.
  15. Then the final layer of 10 phyllo sheets.
  16. Slice the baklava pastry in whatever shape you like using a very sharp knife.
  17. Pour the remaining butter and oil mixture over the cut pastry.
  18. Preheat air fryer at 190C or 375F for 5 minutes.
  19. Cover the baking tray with kitchen foil but don't press it.
  20. Put some beans on top.
  21. Air fry/bake them for 20-25 minutes or until nice and golden.
  22. Once done pour the syrup all over the baked baklava.
  23. Let the syrup soak at room temperature for a minimum of 3 hours before serving.
  24. garnish it with chopped nuts and dry rose petals

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