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Creamy muhalabiya with mango sauce

10 minutes

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Sweet vermicelli dessert with toasted almonds

10 minutes

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Pofdas with butter chicken filling

20 minutes

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Date-and-coconut bars

10 minutes

Quick-and-easy air-fryer baklava

Serves 6

Difficulty Easy

Prep Time 20 minutes

Cooking Time 10 minutes

Ingredients

For the syrup:

1 cup water
300 g sugar
½ lemon, peeled
¼ cup honey
24 samoosa pastry sheets
½ cup salted butter, melted
cinnamon sugar, for sprinkling
75 g pistachios and walnuts
pomeranate rubies, for serving (optional)

Method

1. To make the syrup, boil the ingredients until dissolved and pourable. Set aside and reheat just before using.

2. Use 1 samoosa sheet to make 2 baklava tubes. Roll the pastry sheet around your finger or use cigar baking rods to form your tube. Glue the edge together with a lick flour-and-water paste. Cut each tube in half with a sharp knife, forming 2 tubes. Repeat with the remaining pastry.

3. Drizzle with the melted butter and sprinkle generously with cinnamon sugar. Bake in air-fryer at 180°C until golden and about 4–5 minutes on each side, checking regularly.

4. Remove from the air-fryer and immediately pour over the hot syrup.

5. Garnish with the mixed nuts (and pomegranate rubies, if you like).

Cook's note: This is a different take on baklava – it has no filling but presents as crispy, hollow tubes. If you do not have samoosa pastry, you could use spring roll pastry cut into longer strips or the size of samoosa strips.

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Food Stylist: Khanya Mzongwana
Food assistant: Bianca Jones
Photographer: Toby Murphy

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