- Hello and welcome to Mashable's Air Fry Day.
I am culture reporter, Tim Marcin and on AirFryDay,
we air fry just about anything or everything
in the name of deliciousness.
This week, in honor of Thanksgiving,
we are gonna try to make air fryer stuffing.
I've seen a couple of recipes for air fryer stuffing online,
but here's the catch, they all either use something
but the air fryer to cook the stuffing,
or maybe they put a dish inside of the air fryer
and I feel like that's cheating.
I feel like you gotta make everything in the air fryer.
You can't use some casserole dish inside of it,
because then you're not really getting all the magic
of the crispy air fryer,
hot air getting all around the stuffing.
So we're gonna try it, can't promise it'll go well.
So here are the basic ingredients
for a pretty straightforward stuffing.
We've got, of course, some cubed bread,
got some onion, garlic, sage, and thyme.
We've got some chicken broth.
We've got some egg, beaten and seasoned a little bit,
and we've got some Italian sausage.
Oh, and we also have celery in here,
can't forget celery in your stuffing.
So what we're gonna do is we're gonna try to make this
all in a tiny little air fryer.
I'm traveling today so we're gonna make
a really small batch, I don't have my usual big air fryer,
but it should come out great, all the same.
Let's get into it.
The first thing we're gonna do is we're gonna throw
our cubed bread into the air fryer just to crisp it up
a little bit, so it will stand up a little bit better,
draw the moisture that's gonna be in it later.
So all I'm gonna do is I've got an air fryer,
that's still kind of preheating.
Got it set to about 300 or so degrees.
I'm just gonna toss the bread right in there.
It doesn't have to be perfect.
We're not going for perfectly like crouton breadcrumbs.
All we want is just a little bit of toast on it
before we do everything else.
So the bread has just has a tiny little crisp to it.
It was probably only in there for two or three minutes,
again, just a little bit crisp.
So what I'm gonna do is get a big bowl,
take the bread that we just crisped up.
We're gonna dump it in there
'cause that's where we're gonna mix up pur stuffing later.
Now what we're gonna do is put the Italian sausage
in the air fryer to give it a little bit of a headstart
before we cook all the stuffing,
because sausage is gonna take a lot longer to cook
than vegetables and bread,
which barely take any time at all.
(upbeat music)
Okay, So the sausage is still going.
It's cooking through right now,
but I figured what we can do while we wait for that
to be done is mix everything else up
because we're gonna mix everything in a big bowl,
and then we're gonna get it into the air fryer.
So here we have our lightly toasted bread.
We're gonna take celery, the herbs and garlic,
the onion, dump that all in.
We've got like a tablespoon or so of melted butter.
Drop that in.
All right.
And got about like, just about a cup of broth.
Might not need it all.
Let's dump that in.
So we're gonna use all and then we're gonna give
it a nice mix, I just used my hands 'cause why not?
And then once we get the sausage in there,
we're ready to cook, and the last step is,
we're gonna season this up.
It's my dirty hand, so I can't use that, get some salt.
Some pepper.
And we've got some like buttery herb seasoning here.
This is all I got on hand 'cause I'm traveling.
So we're just gonna do that.
You can use any kind of dried herbs,
probably be good here, and mix that all up.
Just wait for the sausage to be done
and get in the air fryer.
All right, so last and final step.
We've got some cooked sausage.
It's pretty much cooked all the way through,
but not super crisp.
It's gonna finish with the rest of the stuffing.
So we're gonna take this.
We're gonna dump it in there
and again, because I'm nuts,
I just use my hands to mix everything.
We're just gonna mix that up nice and good.
Get a nice mix
and then what we're gonna try to do here
is get it into our tiny little air fryer
and we're gonna air fry it, I'm gonna say about 340.
We're gonna do about five or six minutes.
We're gonna set it for 10.
We've set for 10, we'll see how it looks.
We'll check it halfway through to make sure
we're not over cooking it, but all you do,
we're hoping here is just dump this in,
get a nice even layer.
Like you're kind of packing a baking dish,
how you would make it traditionally in an oven
and that's all we got.
We're gonna throw this in there and hope for the best.
Look at the air fryer.
What we got going here is real crisp edges.
What I'm worried about is the inside not being fully cooked
or not being the way you would want it.
So what I'm gonna do is we're gonna make
a little adjustment.
We're gonna put this back in and we're gonna turn
the temperature down to about 275,
just to let the insights bake a little bit
because we already have these crisp edges
and all we really wanna do is just make sure
everything's cooked through in the middle.
(fryer beeping)
Love that beep sound.
So what we got here are some crispy edges,
I'm gonna take the back of this fork
and try to test the middle of it,
to see what the texture is like.
It feels pretty done.
I think it's time for a taste test.
So you can't really serve it your traditional way,
but we're gonna scoop it right out of here
and onto a plate.
Put that down here.
I'd probably recommend that you rest for a second,
but you know what, it's not terrible.
The inside is maybe not as crisp as you would get
taking a really long time to cook in the oven,
your traditional way,
but it's pretty dang tasty for about maybe 20 minutes
of total work in an air fryer.
So if you're in a pinch on Thanksgiving holiday,
maybe you've got everything filled up in the oven.
You don't have so much space left
or all you got is an air fryer,
you can do worse than making air fryer stuffing,
not too bad, pretty dang tasty.