Puff Pastry Cheese Straws from the Air Fryer

Name: Puff Pastry Cheese Straws from the Air Fryer
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 1 pack puff pastry (275 g, ready-rolled); 1 piece egg yolk; 1 tbsp milk; 100 g grated hard cheese; 1 tsp caraway seeds (whole); 1 pinch salt; 1 tsp sweet paprika

An everyday German recipe for the whole country: ready-made puff pastry is scattered with grated hard cheese and caraway, cut into strips, twisted and baked golden brown in the air fryer in twelve minutes. The straws rise flakily, splinter when you snap them and taste strongly of cheese and caraway. For a bowlful the big oven does not have to get hot, but only a few straws fit side by side in the basket at a time.

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Cook time

30 min

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Servings

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Ingredients

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Nutrition

per serving

375 kcal

Calories

11 g

Protein

25 g

Fat

24 g

Carbs

Ingredients

For 4 servings

Estimated cost~€1.10 · ~€0.30/serving

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Instructions

1
Spread the puff pastry out on the work surface with its paper and leave it for a few minutes. Cold pastry tears as you twist it, whereas slightly warmed pastry can be worked without breaking.
2
Beat the egg yolk with the milk and brush the pastry thinly with it. Without this egg wash the pastry stays pale in the basket.
3
Scatter the grated hard cheese, the caraway seeds, the salt and the sweet paprika evenly over it and press them on lightly with the palm of your hand.
4
Cut the pastry into strips about 2 cm wide and twist each strip twice on itself.
5
Preheat the air fryer to 180 °C.
6
Cut a piece of baking paper to the size of the basket and lay it in. The paper has to be weighed down by the food and must not stick out over the rim, otherwise it flies into the fan.
7
Lay the straws onto the baking paper in a single layer with room around them and do not stack anything; cook larger quantities in two rounds. Cook at 180 °C.
8
Move the straws around with a spatula so that the outer ones come to the middle, and carry on cooking at 180 °C until they are golden brown and flaky.