Easy Air Fryer Peach Fritters

In the fast-paced life, it is extremely difficult to find a dessert that is both healthy and delicious. At this moment, we bring you a simple peach pie made in an air fryer. The production steps are simple and clear. Without much effort, in just a few steps, you can easily taste the taste of home, and the happiness is instantly overflowing. It can also help you save a lot of time.

Ingredients Needed

Peaches: Choose peaches with moderate ripeness, bright color and full flesh to ensure the taste and sweetness.

Flaky pastry: Ordinary commercially available flaky pastry is fine. It's convenient and fast.

Butter: To increase fragrance and rich taste.

White sugar: Used for seasoning. The amount can be adjusted appropriately according to the sweetness of peaches.

Starch water makes the peach jam thick. It can be made by mixing starch and water in a 1:1 ratio.

Egg yolk: Used to brush on the surface to make the baked peach pie golden and attractive.

Precautions

Ingredient control

Peach selection: Choose fresh peaches with good ripeness. Unripe peaches have hard flesh, are sour and astringent, and are difficult to make into jam. Overripe peaches are easy to become soft and mushy and burnt, resulting in a bitter taste.

Flaky pastry storage: Keep it refrigerated until use. Leaving it at room temperature for a long time will cause the oil in the flaky pastry to seep out and the pastry to become wet and sticky, affecting the operation and quality of the finished product.

Cooking points

Precise heat control: Use low heat throughout the process of melting butter and stir-frying peaches. Low heat can prevent butter from being burnt and becoming bitter. It allows peaches to be heated evenly, becoming soft and not burnt, ensuring color and taste.

Sugar and starch treatment: After adding white sugar, stir until it is completely dissolved to make the sweetness evenly distributed. After adding starch water, stir-fry until the peach flesh becomes thick and jam-like, which is beneficial for spreading and wrapping to prevent the filling from flowing out.

Flaky pastry operation

Reserve margin around the spread jam: When spreading the jam, leave a margin of 1-1.5 centimeters around the flaky pastry to facilitate sealing and prevent the jam from overflowing during baking to ensure a beautiful appearance.

Uniform width of weaving: Try to make the width of the woven flaky pastry strips as uniform as possible. Uniform width results in a neat and beautiful pattern, uniform heating, and consistent crispy taste.

Key points of baking

Preheating treatment: Preheat the air fryer for 3-5 minutes before putting in the pie. Preheating makes the inside reach the right temperature. When the pie is put in, it is heated evenly, promoting the pastry to become crispy.

Temperature and time setting: Set it to bake at 180℃ for about 20 minutes and turn it over after 10 minutes. This combination makes the crust golden and crispy, and the filling cooked and soft. If the temperature is too high, it is easy to burn and the filling is not cooked. If the temperature is too low, the crust is not crispy and the filling is easy to dry.

Which kind of peaches should be used

When making peach pies in an air fryer, honey peaches, yellow peaches and nectarines can all be used. Honey peaches have large fruits, soft and juicy flesh, high sweetness and strong fragrance. They are easy to make into jam when stir-fried, which can add an attractive flavor to the pie. They are suitable for those who like sweet taste and strong fragrance. For example, they are very suitable for making for children. Yellow peaches have golden flesh, firm and tough texture, moderate sweetness and balanced sourness. They have a unique flavor and rich taste layers. They are also rich in carotene. They are an ideal choice for those who don't like overly sweet and greasy taste. They can make the pie taste fresher and chewy. Nectarines have a smooth skin and don't need to be peeled. They are convenient to process. The flesh is relatively hard and has more fibers. Stir-frying can retain a granular texture. They are suitable for people who pursue the chewing feeling of the flesh and want to make it quickly. Different peaches have their own characteristics. You can choose according to your personal taste preference to make a delicious and unique peach pie.

Tools you need

Pan: You need a small pan with a thick bottom and uniform heating to stir-fry the peach jam to prevent the peaches from being overheated locally and getting burnt, ensuring the quality of the peach jam.

Mixing tools: Silicone spatulas or wooden spoons are essential. Silicone spatulas fit the bottom of the pan well and are beneficial for stir-frying and preventing sticking. Wooden spoons are mild in texture and do not damage the pan coating. Both can effectively stir the peaches during stir-frying.

Air fryer: This is the core tool. It is advisable to choose a model with a capacity of 3 - 5 liters and normal heating function and uniform hot air circulation to ensure that you can bake peach pies that are crispy on the outside and cooked on the inside.

Baking tray or basket: The baking tray or basket in the air fryer is used to place the pie. Those with non-stick coating can be used directly. If there is no coating, you need to line it with oil paper or aluminum foil so that the pie can be easily taken out after baking.

Brush: A brush with soft bristles and not easy to shed is used to evenly apply the egg yolk liquid on the surface of the pie to make the pie baked with a golden and attractive color.