Breaded feta from the air fryer

⏱ 37 min · 🍽️ 4 Servings · 🧂 9 Ingredients

Ingredients

  • 400 g feta (in one piece)
  • 60 g plain flour (type 405)
  • 2 piece eggs (medium)
  • 150 g breadcrumbs
  • 1 tsp sweet paprika
  • pepper to taste
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 2 tbsp honey
  • 1 tbsp sesame seeds

Instructions

  1. Pat the feta thoroughly dry and cut it into eight equal pieces. The drier the surface, the better the coating will hold onto the cheese later on.
  2. Put the plain flour onto a flat plate, beat the eggs on a second and mix the breadcrumbs with the sweet paprika and the pepper on a third.
  3. Turn the pieces of cheese in the flour, draw them through the egg and roll them in the breadcrumbs, then take them through the egg and the breadcrumbs a second time. Only a double coating seals them all round; otherwise the soft cheese melts out of a thin spot in the hot basket.
  4. Set the coated pieces on a plate and chill them so that the coating firms up and the cheese goes into the hot basket cold.
  5. Preheat the air fryer to 190 °C.
  6. Brush the pieces thinly all over with the olive oil, lay them in the basket in a single layer with space around them and do not stack anything; if they do not all fit, cook them in two batches. Cook at 190 °C.
  7. Turn the pieces carefully with a spatula and finish cooking at 190 °C. The window is short — the coating should be golden brown and the cheese inside just warm and soft; any longer and the casing bursts open.
  8. Set the hot pieces onto plates at once, drizzle them with the honey and scatter the sesame seeds over.
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Breaded feta from the air fryer

A German starter that is popular on buffets and at barbecue evenings all over Germany: feta in a double breadcrumb coating, served with honey and sesame seeds. The crust is crisp and spiced with paprika, underneath the cheese is warm, soft and salty, and the honey sets its sweetness against it. The air fryer manages without a pot of hot fat, but the window is a narrow one — a few minutes too long and the cheese runs out.

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Cook time

37 min

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Servings

4

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Ingredients

9

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Nutrition

per serving

575 kcal

Calories

24 g

Protein

31 g

Fat

47 g

Carbs

Ingredients

For 4 servings

Estimated cost~€4.85 · ~€1.20/serving
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Instructions

  1. 1

    Pat the feta thoroughly dry and cut it into eight equal pieces. The drier the surface, the better the coating will hold onto the cheese later on.

  2. 2

    Put the plain flour onto a flat plate, beat the eggs on a second and mix the breadcrumbs with the sweet paprika and the pepper on a third.

  3. 3

    Turn the pieces of cheese in the flour, draw them through the egg and roll them in the breadcrumbs, then take them through the egg and the breadcrumbs a second time. Only a double coating seals them all round; otherwise the soft cheese melts out of a thin spot in the hot basket.

  4. 4

    Set the coated pieces on a plate and chill them so that the coating firms up and the cheese goes into the hot basket cold.

  5. 5

    Preheat the air fryer to 190 °C.

  6. 6

    Brush the pieces thinly all over with the olive oil, lay them in the basket in a single layer with space around them and do not stack anything; if they do not all fit, cook them in two batches. Cook at 190 °C.

  7. 7

    Turn the pieces carefully with a spatula and finish cooking at 190 °C. The window is short — the coating should be golden brown and the cheese inside just warm and soft; any longer and the casing bursts open.

  8. 8

    Set the hot pieces onto plates at once, drizzle them with the honey and scatter the sesame seeds over.

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