Berliner (Jam Doughnuts) from the Air Fryer

Name: Berliner (Jam Doughnuts) from the Air Fryer
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 8 servings
Ingredients: 250 g wheat flour (type 550); 1 pack dried yeast (7 g); 40 g sugar; 1 pinch salt; 120 ml lukewarm milk; 30 g soft butter or margarine; 1 piece egg (medium); 1 tbsp rapeseed oil; 100 g jam; 3 tbsp sugar (for rolling)

A German yeast pastry that comes to the table all over the country at carnival and at New Year: round balls of sweet yeast dough, filled with jam while still lukewarm and rolled in sugar. They come out of the basket golden brown and fluffy, warm inside, and at the first bite the jam runs out to meet you. Without a bath of hot fat, though, they lack the pale band by which a real Berliner is recognised.

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Cook time

45 min

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Servings

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Ingredients

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Nutrition

per serving

241 kcal

Calories

5 g

Protein

6 g

Fat

41 g

Carbs

Ingredients

For 8 servings

Estimated cost~€1.20 · ~€0.15/serving

Instructions

1
Mix the wheat flour with the dried yeast, the sugar and the salt, then add the lukewarm milk, the soft butter or margarine and the egg and knead everything to a smooth, supple dough.
2
Cover the dough and leave it to rise in a warm place until it has clearly grown in volume.
3
Shape the dough into eight equal balls and set them on two pieces of baking paper cut to the size of the basket. Cover and leave to rise again until the balls have visibly risen.
4
Brush the balls thinly all over with the rapeseed oil. One teaspoon of oil per round is enough to keep the surface from drying out and to let it brown evenly.
5
Preheat the air fryer to 170 °C.
6
Set four balls together with their paper into the basket in a single layer, spaced apart, and do not stack anything; the other four go into a second round. The balls weigh the paper down, otherwise it flies into the fan. Bake at 170 °C.
7
Carefully move the balls around with a spatula so that the outer ones come to the middle, and carry on baking at 170 °C until they are golden brown all over. They are not turned over, because the risen yeast dough would collapse.
8
Stir the jam smooth, pipe it into the lukewarm balls from the side with a piping nozzle and then roll each one in the sugar.