Air fryer Baklava is one of the best-ever air fryer desserts you’ll come across! Layers of crispy filo are filled with assorted nuts and topped with salty sweet syrup. With this easy recipe, you can make perfect homemade baklava.
How to make easy Baklava in the Air fryer
Ensure you are using a baking tray that will fit the air fryer tray.
Blend your nuts using a food processor – the nuts should be finely chopped but not powdered.
Whisk together the oil and melted butter or ghee.
Assembly
Prepare the filo pastry by measuring it out – cut into a size that will fit into the tray. Keep the pastry covered until you are ready to use.
Brush a thin layer of the butter mixture onto the tray and add the first layer of filo to the base. The oil prevents the pastry from slipping or shifting around.
Add an extra layer of filo and brush with more butter. Add around 10-12 sheets, brushing butter every second sheet.
Sprinkle over a layer of nuts and pour over a little butter. Continue to stack the filo and brushing butter. You can either do a single nut layer or two layers of nuts.
Do not worry if all the filo sheets are not all the same size, you can overlap them and seal together with butter.
Gently cut the baklava into squares or diamonds.
Pour over the remainder of the butter so that it sinks in between the cuts.
Cover the baking tray tightly with oven-safe foil. Do not poke holes into the foil. You can add some baking beans on top of the foil to secure it down further
Place in the air fryer basket. Set the air fryer onto bake at 190C for 25 minutes.
Whilst the baklava is in the air fryer, prepare the salted caramel sugar syrup.
PrintAir Fryer Baklava
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Total Time: 15 minutes
- Yield: 16
- Category: Desserts
- Cuisine: Turkish
Ingredients
Pastry
- 20 sheets phyllo pastry also known as Filo pastry
- 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 or demerara sugar
- 150 ml maple syrup
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
- 225 ml water
Instructions
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First make syrup by mixing all the salted caramel syrup ingredients in a pan.50 grams light brown sugar, 150 ml maple syrup, 1/2 teaspoon sea salt, 225 ml water
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Bring it to boil and simmer for 5 minutes while stirring constantly.
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Leave it aside for later use.
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Then make filling by placing nuts and pinch of salt in the food processor. Pulse them until they are coarse. Leave it aside.1 cup nuts, 1/2 teaspoon salt
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Now cut the phyllo pastry according to your baking tray/pan size. Simply by putting a tray over the pastry and cut it with the sharp knife.20 sheets phyllo pastry
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Don’t throw away sides of the pastry, will use in the middle layer of the baklava.
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Heat butter in a bowl in microwave or in the pan over stove top.100 grams butter
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Add vegetable oil and mix well.40 ml vegetable oil
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Grease the tray base by brushing the butter oil mixture.
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Layer two sheets of phyllo and gently brush it up with butter oil mixture.
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Repeat this until you have laid and brushed up 10 pastry sheets in total.
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Then a layer of coarse nuts filling.
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Now layer the pastry with cut phyllo and brush up with butter mix.
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Again do a thin layer of nuts.
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Then final layer of 10 phyllo sheets.
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Slice the baklava pastry in whatever shape you like using a very sharp knife.
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Pour the remaining butter and oil mixture over the cut pastry.
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Preheat air fryer at 190C or 375F for 5 minutes.
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Cover the baking tray with kitchen foil but don’t press it.
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Put some beans on top.
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Air fry/bake them for 20-25 minutes or until nice and golden.
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Once done pour the syrup all over the baked baklava.
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Let the syrup soak at room temperature for minimum 3 hours before serving.
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garnish it with chopped nuts and dry rose petals.
Notes
Keep phyllo pastry covered all the time with a clean moist but dry kitchen towel.
Order of assembling baklava
- 10 buttered phyllo sheets
- 1/4 cup nuts
- 10 buttered phyllo sheets
- 1/4 cup nuts
- 10 buttered phyllo sheets
