AirFrydays
Love it or hate it, air fryers have quickly become a kitchen staple for many. Welcome to AirFrydays. A weekly drop of air fryer recipes. Explore our mouth-watering collection of delicious air fryer recipes below.
Love it or hate it, air fryers have quickly become a kitchen staple for many. Welcome to AirFrydays. A weekly drop of air fryer recipes. Explore our mouth-watering collection of delicious air fryer recipes below.
AirFryday: Spatchcock chicken with espetada-style aromatics
Chicken, bay leaves, garlic and coarse salt. Just add skewers, and you have a traditional espetada — or perhaps a spatchcocked chicken?
AirFryday: Cauliflower-broccoli cheese in the air fryer
Cauliflower cheese is deliciously old-fashioned, but we’ve updated it for you to make in the air fryer. And we’ve thrown in broccoli as well.
AirFryday: Monkeygland chicken drumsticks in your air fryer
Grumpy French chefs can snicker and frown all they like at South Africa’s everything-goes-in-sauce. We know how comforting it can be. So let’s bring monkeygland to the air fryer.
AirFryday: Crown of chicken with sage and onion stuffing
The crown of chicken is the entire rib cage and all its breast meat, intact but, in this instance, deboned. The treat is that you get to prepare this all by yourself. But don’t be daunted…
Lekker Brekker Monday: Toad in the Hole
Toad in the Hole is an old English dish which uses Yorkshire pudding batter as a ‘bed’ for meat to lie in while it cooks. Nobody in those times could have imagined an air fryer. But here we are, and so is the toad.
Prosciutto-wrapped chicken breasts with cheese and sage, served with tagliatelle
Filleted chicken breasts are filled with cheese and sage and wrapped in prosciutto, to be served with tagliatelle tossed in the sauce from the chicken.
AirFryday: Cheesy stuffed mushrooms, air fryer style
There’s a lovely bite to these mushrooms thanks to the red chillies in them, and they’re deliciously cheesy too.
AirFryday: Baby gem squash, cooked in an air fryer in minutes
Somewhere along the way, somebody decided it was a good idea to pick gem squash when they’ve barely started developing, whereupon lots of people thought, what a good idea, let’s cook these flavourless little green things and pretend we like them.
AirFryday: Zesty brown mushrooms in your air fryer
Mushrooms cook madly quickly in an air fryer. Put them in on the highest heat, as the last element you cook before serving your meal.
Lekker Brekker Monday: Cheese and spring onion muffins
This recipe can be cooked in a conventional oven or an air fryer. Cooking times are given for both.
AirFryday: Chutney chicken comes to the air fryer
That rack at the bottom of an air fryer basket doesn’t have to stay in the machine for every meal. For this chutney chicken recipe, take it out and use the “basket” as a pot.
AirFryday: Crispy potatoes with bacon and rosemary
Bacon makes everything seem better. Potatoes have that effect too. So let’s put them together and turn out what may be the most satisfying air fryer potato dish of them all.
Lekker Brekker Monday: Melty cheese & onion toasties in your air fryer
Leave the sandwich maker in the cupboard and heat up the air fryer for these crisp and golden toasted sarmies.
AirFryday: Gingered croissant and butter pudding
The traditional British bread and butter pudding is switched up by using croissants and candied ginger in this air fryer recipe.
AirFryday: Ouma innie air fryer!
Hang on to your rolling pin, tannie. The beloved comfort supper known as ‘ouma onder die kombers’ (granny under the blanket) is adapted for an air fryer in today’s AirFryday recipe. Skande!
AirFryday: Chicken and veg bake in your air fryer
Chicken and vegetable bakes are always popular, though I have always cooked them in the ordinary old gas oven. I had a go at doing one in an air fryer this week and, while the technique is a little different, the end result was very satisfying.
AirFryday: Impress your friends with your own hot cross buns
We share this recipe for air fryer hot cross buns every Easter, ever since we first published it three years ago in the early days of our AirFryday feature. Few things you make will impress your friends as much as producing your very own hot cross buns. Then, tell them you did them in the air fryer and they may even swoon.
AirFryday: Fish cakes with dill-lemon mayo
If yesterday’s spicy fish cakes recipe whetted your appetite, here’s another, this time for your air fryer. Leftover braaied snoek and some canned tuna in brine, drained, were put to use in a mixture for fish cakes cooked in the air fryer.
AirFryday: Pepper steak, the air fryer way
Fillet steak, rare, medium rare, or well done (if you must). But can you cook it successfully in an air fryer? Yes, you can.
AirFryday: Air fryer pork tenderloin with butter beans and aubergines
Pork tenderloin cooks quickly and efficiently in an air fryer. Brinjals can be cooked in one too, though I did mine in a skillet to give them that lovely ridged pattern you see in the photo.
AirFryday: Celebrate the season with roast lime and garlic chicken
It’s lime time again, one of the best seasonal gifts of them all. Quarter some lovely fresh limes and stuff them in the cavity of a chicken, along with some fresh garlic.
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