There’s a buzz around air fryers right now.If you don’t know anything about it and you have not heard anything about air fryers, then you’re missing out on a lot of good and tasty delicious recipes. In the next few minutes, you will learn more about air fryers and some recipes that you can make while using one.
To put it simply, an air fryer is a device that cooks food by circulating heated air around it. The heated air is circulated around the food by through a mechanical fan. The heat is generated by a heating element, though there are some air fryers that use halogen lamps instead.
Air fryers are becoming popular because, for some people, it is a healthier means of preparing food than traditional devices for cooking. It does not add calories to the food being prepared. It also uses up less energy than conventional means of cooking. With those advantages, it is really not surprising that more and more people are trying it out.
Are you intrigued about air fryers? Welcome to the club. To get started with your air fryer journey, you need to learn some recipes that you can do using it. Then here are five of the best recipes that you can prepare using one:
- One kilo chicken wingettes
- Half a cup self-rising flour
- One teaspoon salt
- One half cup buffalo sauce
- One fourth cup butter
- Celery
- Blue cheese dressing
- Preheat the fryer to 180 ºC.
- Combine the salt and flour in a bowl and then add the wings. Mix so that the wings become fully covered by the mixture.
- Place the wings in the air fryer for half an hour. Toss it after every five minutes.
- Melt the butter and then add the sauce. Pour the sauce mixture.
- You can serve it with the cheese and the celery.
- One large piece of tofu chopped into smaller pieces
- One large piece of tofu chopped into smaller pieces
- Two tablespoons soy sauce
- One tbsp olive oil
- One tsp turmeric
- One half tsp garlic powder
- One tbsp olive oil
- Half a cup chopped onion
- Two and half cups chopped red potato
- Mix the tofu, turmeric, garlic powder, olive oil, soy sauce, onion, and onion powder in a medium bowl and then set it aside.
- In another bowl add the potatoes into the olive oil and then air fry it under 200 ºC for around 15 minutes.
- Add the potatoes to the tofu. Cook the mixture at a slightly lower temperature.
- Add the broccoli to the marinade that you have left over then add it to the air fryer.
- Serve it.
- Two medium russet potatoes
- One tsp olive oil
- One eighth tsp sea salt
- One eighth tsp black pepper
- Heat the fryer to 200 ºC.
- Cut the potatoes into the shape that you want.
- Place the potatoes in a bowl and coat them in olive oil.
- Place the potatoes in the fryer basket and then cook for 20 minutes or more.
- When done, remove the potatoes from the fryer and season with salt and pepper.
- Five pieces of drumsticks
- Five pieces of drumsticks
- One clove of garlic (crushed)
- One half tbsp of mustard
- One tbsp of olive oil.
- Two tsps of brown sugar
- One tsp of chili powder
- To get started, preheat the air fryer to 200º C.
- Mix the mustard with the seasonings, and the garlic. Add the oil.
- Cover the drumsticks and leave them for twenty minutes.
- Place the drumsticks into the basket of the air fryer.
- Cook for ten minutes.
- When the drumsticks become brown lower the the temperature to 150º C and keep cooking for next ten minutes.
- Two cups of dry macaroni
- One tsp of cornstarch
- Two cups of heavy whipping cream
- Two cups of cheddar cheese (shredded)
- Mix the ingredients in a bowl.
- Place the mixture into the baking pan of the air fryer. Cover with foil.
- Add the pan into the frying basket.
- Choose the bake setting.
- Cook it for 15 minutes, at 150 degrees
- Remove the foil and add the remaining cheese.
- Continue the baking process for a few more minutes.
These are just five recipes that you can cook with an air fryer. There are many others that you can try. It is a versatile device that can add some interesting dimensions to the food you cook.
Byline/About the Author: Lisa Brown has been helping her readers in successful business and entrepreneurial strategies for the past 3 years. She currently works with uae.ekuep.com, which is the answer to UAE’s growing restaurant industry. Ekuep is the brand that restaurants, bakeries, cafes, juice bars, and more turn to when they want to stock their kitchens with only the best restaurant equipment.