Air Fryer Fanatic

monirenay

Hi i have an air fryer and always looking for interesting healthy and easy recipes. We love making our 'roasted' veggies in it as well as most everything else. Open to swap recipes and ideas with anyone interested!

acpgee

I love it for getting rid of subcutaneous fat for skin on fish, chicken thighs, duck breast.

debtay123

I love to cook chicken wings and sausages in my air fryer and of course fries!

Hearts_2015

Mine's still in a box from Prime, I *need* to get it out and play!
Looking forward to ideas... Thanks for creating the thread @monirenay

What veggies have you tried roasting and how long do they take? Oil is optional for most everything right?

acpgee

For veggies, you can use this as a guide. Start checking about three quarters into the recommend oven time to compensate for better air circulation in the air fryer. I would use a light coat of olive oil on veggies. I don't need oil with fattier meats such as chicken wings.

https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-roast-any-vegetable-101221

RelCanonical

One unusual thing I like to do with my air fryer is to put flour tortillas in them to make them crunchy. I get a big enough tortilla (mine is small so 8-10 inch is just fine for me) and run it up the sides to make a tortilla bowl.

sammidelvecchio

I buy turkey cheddar wursts and cook them in the air fryer.

aries68mc

I do chicken and salmon in mine a lot.

acpgee

I have a small model (Phillips Viva) but I can produce a roast dinner with potatoes for four in it.

Put in a one pound joint of roast beef or a half leg of lamb in the air fryer. Top with potatoes chunks that have been par boiled for 2-5 minutes and shaken with fat (goose fat is great but butter or olive oil are fine) to roughen up the surface for extra crispy potatoes in the drained pan. Air fry on 200C for about 40 minutes giving everything a turn half way through cooking. You will get the most accurate results with respect to done-ness if you use an instant read meat thermometer. I use this site as a guide for internal temperatures.
https://www.certifiedangusbeef.com/kitchen/doneness.php

If you want to roast vegetables as well, I toss some thinly sliced carrots or parsnips in a little olive oil and fit them under the air fryer basket. There is almost an inch of clearance in my model. While the meat and potatoes are cooking you can do a very easy onion gravy.
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/user/2871316/recipe/simple-onion-gravy

Rest the roast for 5 minutes before carving so that temperature and juices become evenly distributed throughout the joint. In the meantime you can sautee some spinach with a scant amount of butter.

A pretty easy way to produce a roast dinner for four with all the trimmings in 45 minutes.

WinoGelato

The biggest air fryer fanatic I know around here is @just_Tomek !

I got one for Christmas, unexpectedly, and love it.
And I do have both a convection oven and a toaster oven.

I made salmon and roasted green beans in it last night. 10 min salmon, 5 min green beans. Chicken breast the night before and I was worried it would be dry but it was very juicy.

TheDevastator

I make ribeyes, strip steaks, and ribs in my air fryer. Meat is the only ingredient.

summery79

I'm kind of obsessed with my air fryer right now. Does your fryer have a spit? If so, you can do a whole rotisserie chicken! https://summeryule.com/2020/02/24/air-fryer-rotisserie-chicken/

If you don't have a spit, here's a recipe for calamari that cooks on the racks https://summeryule.com/2020/02/17/air-fryer-calamari-crispy-squid-rings-recipe/

I am always looking for new recipes too. It does a really good job with steaks, chicken wings, baked fries

WinoGelato

TheDevastator wrote: »

I make ribeyes, strip steaks, and ribs in my air fryer. Meat is the only ingredient.

Husband had had some lingering jaw/tooth pain so we haven’t been eating “chewy”!foods but when he’s better I’m excited for steaks in the Air Fryer, any tips?

nighthawk584

I cooked a ribeye steak from frozen to see if it would come out ok. 15 min on 400 F and it came out perfect med rare and the fat caramelization was so good!

ebeever115

We love ours!! Our favorite things to do in our air fryer are salmon, chicken wings, chicken thighs, sausages and roasted veggies. It also perfectly reheats pizza. We actually like pizza reheated in the air fryer better than when you get it freshly made. We will sometimes bring home a pizza, let it sit on the counter to cool off and then reheat it in the air fryer.

angelexperiment

I don’t own one but I imagine this would be cool for doing up some interesting veggies like kale chips, radish chips, broccoli bites

TheDevastator

For a 1 lb frozen steak I recommend 15 minutes at 400 as well. 5 min preheat, 10 minutes on one side, and 5 minutes on the other.

summery79

For a 2 lb frozen London broil that was ~1.5" thick my air fryer took about 30 minutes at 400

I'm doing Buffalo wings in the air fryer tonight

huntersvonnegut

I’m doing a turkey breast in ours for dinner tomorrow.

BelleRequin

I love how quick it is to cook stuffed chicken breast.

Separate tip- if you’re breading something to go in it, mix mayo with your egg wash. Improves the crunch factor significantly.

karahm78

My favorite air fryer meal, great over brown rice!

https://www.skinnytaste.com/air-fryer-cajun-shrimp-dinner/

bethe

I got one after Xmas and I love it. Meats turn out fabulous, but I'm still trying to figure out how not to burn veggies.

acpgee

Whenever I have leftover mashed potato, I make croquettes which I freeze in trays, transfer to ziplock bags and heat up for 10 minutes at 200C in the air fryer.

My tip for bread crumb coated foods for the air fryer is to use greasy breadcrumbs where you stir a teaspoon or so of olive oil into the breadcrumbs. Much easier than spraying finished product with oil to get a crisp coating when air fried.

springlering62

I am SO over cleaning the plastic racks on my dehydrator (I make a huge batch of beef jerky every three or four weeks). I was looking for an alternative last night, and saw the Ninja Foodi, so I ordered one.

It pressure cooks, air fries, dehydrates, slow cooks and a bunch of other stuff. Am crossing fingers it does all it claims, but especially that the *kitten* dehydrating racks are easier to clean- and don’t require a toothbrush to do so. Ugh!!!!!!!!!!!

Bonus would be eliminating a whole cabinet or two full of cooking gizmos in our small kitchen!

acpgee

Another air fryer tip.

I've damaged the non stick coating on the bottom of my basket by tossing it in the dishwasher where the detergents are too harsh for non stick surfaces. If you are in the same boat, buy some silicon mesh sold for preventing small pieces of food such as shrimp and asparagus from falling between BBQ grates. Cut down to size to line the basket. Nothing sticks to silicon mesh and you can toss it in the dishwasher.

LoveyChar

Potatoes are good in an air fryer. If you rub a little oil and sprinkle a little salt on the skin, you'll get a nice, crispy potato skin with a light, fluffy potato inside.

weatherking2019

I just go this last week and been experimenting! Made Chicken wings, Sweet potato fries, Lamb, Turbo bread. Love it so far!!