Air Fryer Doughnuts Recipe: (Italian Graffe)

Air Fryer Doughnuts Recipe or Italian Graffe are a light version of the classic fried doughnuts.

In fact, in the air fryer they are cooked without oil and only after cooking should they be brushed with melted butter and covered with sugar! Easy to prepare, they have to rise in two stages for 2 hours and 45 minutes, however, but the result is amazing, crispy on the outside fluffy on the inside and they do not make the fried ones regret.

Ingredients :

• 550g (4 1/3 cups) ’00’ flour
• 70g (1/2 cup) potato starch
• 60g (1/4 cup + 1 tablespoon) granulated sugar, plus extra for coating
• 1 large egg
• 95ml (1/3 cup + 1 tablespoon) vegetable oil
• 12g (2 1/4 teaspoons) fresh yeast or 1 packet (7g/4 teaspoons) active dry yeast
• 250ml (1 cup) milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• Zest of 1 lemon, finely grated
• Unsalted butter, melted, for brushing (optional)

How to make the Air Fryer Doughnuts Recipe: (Italian Graffe)

1. Heat the milk in a small saucepan until warm.
2. Crumble the brewer’s yeast and let it dissolve in the milk.
3. In a large bowl put the flour and potato starch and mix them together.
4. Add the 60 g sugar, egg, seed oil, vanilla extract and grated lemon zest and mix everything together.
5. Also add the yeast dissolved in the milk and knead until smooth, then transfer to a work surface and continue kneading until your dough is smooth and homogeneous, and form into a loaf.
6. Place it in a bowl and make a cross cut in the surface.
7. Seal the bowl with plastic wrap and let the dough rise in a draft-free place until doubled: this will take a couple of hours.
8. After the dough has risen, roll it out on a lightly floured work surface to a thickness of 7 to 8 millimeters and cut out discs with a 10-cm dough cutter, which you will pierce in the center with a dough cutter about three centimeters in diameter.
9. Knead the scraps again and make more doughnuts until all the dough is used up.
10. Place the resulting doughnuts on squares of baking paper on a tray, cover them with a clean tea towel and let them rise for another 45 minutes.

Bon Appétit!