12 Must-Try Air Fryer Recipes for Your Next Meal
The oil-free air fryer has become a must-have kitchen appliance in recent times due to its practicality and convenience. Whether you're a current user or considering purchasing one, let's explore how this popular product makes our lives easier. Quickly thaw frozen meat and boil eggs without the use of water are just a few examples of its capabilities. Keep reading to discover even more exciting ways to use your air fryer!
1. For those who can't make boiled eggs.
If you can't get the consistency you want while boiling eggs in water, try it with air fyer!
We adjust our air fryer to 130 degrees.
8 minutes for a flaky consistency,
11 minutes for apricot consistency,
13 minutes for solid consistency,
For the overcooked consistency, it is enough to cook for 17 minutes.
The eggs are already cooked while you're making the tea!
2. You can defrost frozen meat quickly.
When we want to cook quickly, we may need to defrost the minced meat or meat in the freezer. For this, it is necessary either to take it out quite a bit in advance, or to defrost it in a microwave oven. I usually don't have time to take it out in advance and wait for it to thaw, and I don't have a microwave oven either. In this case, it is the air fryer that comes to our rescue again.
We set our air fryer to 70 degrees. We can defrost the product we want to defrost in 15 minutes. Of course, this period will vary depending on the type and quantity of the product to be used. Therefore, it is useful to proceed in a controlled manner.
3. Indispensable for the winter months, chestnuts!
I think everyone likes chestnuts, but it can also be difficult to cook them the way we want. Of course, air fryer makes our job easier in this regard too!
We make scratches on our chestnuts and leave them in hot water for half an hour. Then we adjust our air fryer 180 degrees. After we have put the chestnuts we have drawn on our air fryer, we cook them for 20 minutes in a controlled way and by stopping and shaking them from time to time. That's about it!
4. For breakfast or with soups: crispy garlic breads.
Doesn't garlic bread delight us all with its flavor? It is a great saviour for breakfasts, next to soups or in case of sudden hunger. Of course, we can also do this with the air fryer.
We can start by slicing the bread we want. I usually prefer baguette bread or burger bread. We also prepare the grout immediately in a container. Although parmesan cheese is usually used, you can choose the cheese you want. We blend our cheese, butter, grated or beaten garlic and our preferred spices well and spread them on our breads. If you wish, you can also add chopped parsley to the mortar or on the breads after cooking.
We set our air fryer to 180 degrees and bake our breads for 5 minutes.
5. Crispy chicken that everyone loves to eat!
Whether it's a snack, an accompaniment or a meal... Does anyone not like crispy chicken? We can make crispy chickens with air fyer.
We cut our breast or tenderloin chicken meat in julienne way. At this stage, cubed chicken can also be preferred, there is no difference in taste. The only difference is the shape.
We mix 1 egg, 1 tablespoon flour and half a bottle of plain soda in a bowl with the spices and salt we wish and blend our chickens well in this mortar. We cover our chickens that we feed in the mortar with breadcrumbs, panko or crumbled corn chips. My favorite is corn chips.
We open our air fryer on the chicken setting. If you wish, you can also adjust it manually to 185 degrees. We cook our chickens for about 12-15 minutes. And you are ready!
6. Puff pastry croissants as delicious as the original!
Even the word croissant is enough to make my mouth water. If you're like me, you can make practical puff pastry croissants with the air fryer.
We cut our puff pastry dough that comes out of the rectangular package diagonally and get triangular pieces. Of course, you can put any ingredient you want in it, but I'm one of the sweet lovers. We add 1 teaspoon of chocolate hazelnut cream and 1 teaspoon of cream into it and shape our puff pastry by wrapping it from the thick part to the thin part.
We open our air fryer in the pastry or cake setting. If you wish, you can also manually adjust it to 180 degrees. we cook for about 10-12 minutes. Our puff pastry croissants are ready!
7. Healthy and delicious vegetable skewers
You can bake cakes and pies in the air fryer, but the air fryer is actually famous for being able to cook low-fat and healthy dishes. So, let's continue with a recipe worthy of its purpose. Of course, you can use any vegetable you want in the recipe. I will share it with the version I have tried and liked very much.
We use chestnut mushrooms, zucchini, capya peppers, onions, cherry tomatoes and carrots. We cut our vegetables in the size to be lined up in bottles. In a bowl, add 1-2 tablespoons of olive oil, salt and the spices you want. I use black pepper, red ground pepper, cumin, turmeric and powdered garlic. Instead, you can also add cajun spice directly. After blending our vegetables with the prepared mixture, we string them on skewers. It is enough to cook for 15 minutes at the vegetable setting carefully and by turning them. Of course, you can also prefer more or less cooked, depending on your taste.
You can make a wonderful dip sauce next to vegetable skewers by mixing finely chopped spring onions and dill with strained yogurt.
8. Practical and delicious lavash pizza
The most practical version of pizza may be the one made from lavash. We know, it doesn't give the feeling of real pizza, but it definitely saves the moment. We are making lavash pizza with air fryer without starting the oven and without dirtying the pan.
The main thing here is to use a double layer of lavash. We grate mozzarella or cheddar cheese on our lavash. After adding one more layer of lavash to it, we add our tomato sauce. You can use ready-made sauce, but I usually prefer to prepare my own sauce with 1 small tomato, 1 clove of garlic, 1 tablespoon of olive oil and 1 teaspoon of tomato paste. After adding cheese again to our tomato sauce, we decorate our pizza with the ingredients we wish. The choice here is completely up to you. 5 minutes at 200 degrees in the air fryer is enough.
9. Puff cupcakes.
After a diet, I felt the need to consume refined extracts like crazy and I tried this recipe in the air fryer with shaking hands and feet and it turned out great. If you don't have cupcake molds, you can use small porcelain baking dishes instead, but it will be easier in the paper cups for cupcakes.
After scrambling 1 egg with half a tea cup of sugar, we continue scrambling by adding half a tea cup of milk and half a tea cup of oil. After adding 1 tea cup of flour, 1 teaspoon of cocoa, 1 packet of vanilla and 1 teaspoon of baking powder to it, we scramble again until we get a smooth consistency. I also added chocolate drops to it. If you wish, you can also add nuts, walnuts, dried fruits or any other ingredient you like. We pour our grout into cupcake molds. 4 cakes came out with this recipe in my porcelain containers, but more will come out with cupcake molds. We turn our air fryer to the cake setting and we get over the dessert crisis by baking for 15-20 minutes.
10. Make-up meal after carb getaways: Air fryer vegetable salad
When it comes to cakes, pies, pizza, we may need some compensation. Apart from these, vegetable salads are also great, especially for lunchs. How about making a practical, tasty and healthy salad with an air fryer?
It goes great with cauliflower, broccoli, carrots and asparagus. Of course, you can also use different vegetables. We slice our vegetables as we prefer and blend them well with 1 tablespoon of olive oil. We cook our vegetables on the vegetable setting of the air fryer for 15-20 minutes in a controlled manner and turning them.
While our vegetables are cooking, we prepare a sauce by mixing 1 tablespoon olive oil, 1 teaspoon yogurt, 1 teaspoon pomegranate sour, juice of a quarter lemon and 1 teaspoon soy sauce in a bowl and adding dried mint and black pepper to it.
We take the cooked vegetables to our salad bowl and mix them with our sauce. If you want, you can also add grains or baby corn, it turns out great. You can serve it by decorating it with sesame seeds.
11. How about a healthy snack?
Great snacks can be made with the air fryer. Chickpea chips are one of them. If you haven't tried it yet, let's try it together right now.
We need to boil the chickpeas first. If you don't like this part very much, you can boil these types of legumes en masse and put them in the freezer in packages. If you wish, you can also use ready-made boiled chickpeas at this stage.
We take the boiled chickpeas in a container and add 1-2 tablespoons of olive oil, salt, pepper, red pepper powder, garlic powder, turmeric powder and ginger powder to it, depending on the amount of chickpeas. Of course, the spices is completely up to your preference, but garlic powder definitely suits it very well. If you wish, you can also do it directly with cajun spice, it turns out great too.
After mixing our chickpeas well with olive oil and spices, we set our air fryer to 190 degrees. 10-12 minutes is enough.
12. Pod dumplings, one of the favorite recipes recently
Pod dumpling, which is very popular with its taste as well as being practical and having few ingredients, has definitely appeared on Instagram recently. You can make pod dumplings with the air fryer.
The recipe is quite simple. The trick is to use baklava dough. We cut the baklava muffins into strips of the desired size. We can prepare a mortar by roasting minced meat and onion in it and add it. This way, it gets closer to the taste of regular dumplings, but it is not necessarily. The filling is completely optional. You can also put vegetables, minced meat, or you can do it plain without putting anything. I made it using ground walnuts and it turned out great. We prepare a mixture of water and oil on our dough and apply it with a brush, then add the mortar we want and wrap it in rolls. We set our air fryer to 190 degrees and cook for about 8-10 minutes.
Of course, we don't forget to bring the flavor of our dumplings to the top with garlic yogurt and tomato sauce.
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