Air Fryer Apple Fritters

These easy Air Fryer Apple Fritters are healthier form of the traditional Fall dessert. Its made vegan and oil free with few simple ingredients. They are nut free and have the perfect crunch to it in every bite with being soft from inside.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword apple fritters in air fryer, apple fritters recipe, easy air fryer apple fritters, how to make air fryer apple fritters, vegan apple fritters

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 10

Total Time 20

Servings

Calories 106kcal

Author Gunjan

Ingredients

1 large honeycrisp apple
1 cup brown rice flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 tbsp flaxmeal
1 tsp cinnamon powder
3/4 cup oat milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 1/2 tbsp maple syrup

sugar free glaze

1/2 cup oat milk
1/2 tbsp cornstarch
1 tbsp maple syrup

Instructions

Chop apple into small cubes and keep it aside. Place parchment paper in the air fryer basket. Make sure the parchment paper is the exact shape and size of the basket. No extra parchment paper should be hanging from any side.
In a large mixing bowl combine brown rice flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and flaxmeal. Mix it well.
Then in the same flour mixture add oat milk, vanilla extract and maple syrup to it. Whip it into a thick batter.
Fold in chopped apples to it and mix well.
Then, with the help of an ice cream scoop place 4-5 scoops of batter in the prepared air fryer basket. Attach it to the air fryer and turn it on at 400 degree for 10 minutes. Once done, detach the basket and gently take out one at a time gently releasing from the bottom with a flat spatula. Place them on a flat surface. Repeat this step for the rest of the batter.
Make the glaze: In the meanwhile, in a saucepan combine the glaze ingredients and stir it well until there are no lumps. Turn on the flame and place it on the flame. Keep stirring continuously until the fist couple of bubbles and it starts to thicken. Turn off the flame and keep stirring vigorously until it thickens and reaches a thick but dripping consistency.
With a spoon generously glaze each apple fritter while the glaze is still hot. Serve immediately.

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Notes

This tastes best when served immediately. You may refrigerate the leftovers for 2-3 days. Oven toast them for 4 minutes air fry them at 350 for 2 minutes.
Depending on the size of your scoop this recipe makes 8-10 large sized apple fritters.
Depending on the size of your air fryer you may need to make it in 2-3 batches.
Brown rice flour has its own earthy taste so if desired you may substitute it with regular rice flour.
This recipe makes about 10 fritters and the serving size is 1 fritter per person.
oven bake option: Preheat oven at 400 degree Fahrenheit and prepare a baking/cookie sheet with a parchment paper. Follow the steps in the instructions to whip up the batter. Then, scoop the batter on the prepared baking sheet. Keep a gap of 1/4 - 1/2 inch between each fritters. Place the sheet in the middle rack of the oven and bake for 20 minutes. Turn it off and let them rest in the warm oven for 2 minutes. Take them out and glaze and enjoy immediately.

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