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Vegetable Nuggets from the Airfryer
A German family recipe that introduces children to vegetables all over Germany: carrots and cauliflower are cooked soft, mashed and shaped into little bites with breadcrumbs and grated hard cheese. Unlike large vegetable patties, these are bite-sized nuggets that can be dipped into quark. In the basket two tablespoons of oil do instead of a pan full of fat, but the nuggets do not turn quite as crisp as deep-fried ones.
Cook time
55 min
Servings
20
Ingredients
12
Nutrition
per serving78 kcal
Calories
4 g
Protein
3 g
Fat
8 g
Carbs
Ingredients
For 20 servings
Kitchen Tools
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Instructions
- 1
Peel the carrots and cut them into slices, break the cauliflower into small florets.
- 2
Cook both together in a little water in a pan until soft. The appliance cannot take this step off you, because raw vegetables brown on the outside in the dry air stream long before they turn soft inside.
- 3
Drain the vegetables very well and mash them finely with a fork. The drier the mixture, the better the nuggets hold together later.
- 4
Peel the onion and dice it very finely.
- 5
Knead the mashed vegetables with the onion, the egg, the breadcrumbs, the plain flour and the grated hard cheese and season with the salt, the pepper and the nutmeg.
- 6
With damp hands shape twenty small, flat nuggets from the mixture and brush them thinly on both sides with the rapeseed oil.
- 7
Preheat the airfryer to 190 °C.
- 8
Cut a piece of baking paper to fit the basket and lay it in the hot basket. Put the nuggets straight onto it in a single layer with space between them and do not stack anything, so that the paper is weighed down and does not fly into the fan; ten per batch, the rest go into a second one. Cook at 190 °C.
- 9
Turn the nuggets carefully with a broad spatula and finish cooking at 190 °C until both sides are golden brown and firm.
- 10
Serve the nuggets with the herb quark.
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