Hey, guys.
If any of you received an air fryer over the holidays
and you're looking for some new things to make in it,
well today I thought I would share six new air fryer recipes
you can make in this handy little gadget.
First up, did you know that you can make blueberry muffins
in your air fryer?
I know, right?
I tried it and they are so delicious and so easy,
and the best part is that when you wanna make muffins
and you don't wanna whole dozen muffins,
you can just make three.
So the first thing to know about air fryers is if you're
gonna be using anything inside them like a ramekin
or a dish, it just has to be oven-safe.
Not microwave-safe, so you can't actually put plastic in it,
but if it's oven-safe you're good to go.
For this recipe I'm gonna be using three one-cup ramekins.
I'm gonna line them with a jumbo muffin paper.
This is the other thing I learned.
You actually can't use the regular muffin papers
because the way that the air fryer technology works,
is it uses air.
So the muffins need a lotta room in order to rise,
and if they're too squeezed in a smaller muffin paper,
they actually don't cook inside.
They get really browned on top but then don't actually
bake all the way through.
So that's tip number one.
Then in a medium size bowl, we're going to add one egg,
1/3 of a cup of white sugar,
1/3 of a cup of vegetable oil,
two tablespoons of water
and 1/4 teaspoon of vanilla extract,
and then one teaspoon of freshly grated lemon zest.
You can whisk that all together until combined,
and then in a smaller bowl you're gonna whisk together
the dry ingredients.
All it is, is just 2/3 cup of all-purpose flour,
1/2 teaspoon of baking powder,
and 1/8 of a teaspoon of salt.
You can whisk that all together until it's combined
and then slowly add it to your wet ingredients,
whisking all the while until it's totally incorporated.
The final step is to add 1/2 cup of fresh blueberries.
Then you're gonna transfer this batter into your ramekins
just using a standard size ice cream scoop.
Then you're gonna place these ramekins in your air fryer,
set the temperature for 350 degrees,
and then set the timer for about 15 minutes.
I like to check it at 15 minutes.
If you feel that they're still not done inside,
you can go another two minutes.
But really, 17 minutes should do the trick.
Then when you open your air fryer, you're gonna see
these beautiful blueberry muffins, all golden brown
with those berries bursting.
Now do be careful because those ramekins are extremely hot.
They're a little hard to get out with an oven mitt,
so I typically like to take a dish towel and just go in
and remove the ramekin.
Then you can go in and remove the papers.
There you have it.
Next up, a delicious broccoli and cheddar quiche.
Now this is a crustless quiche, so it's a lot quicker
to make 'cause there's no pie dough you have to deal with.
The air fryer does something to eggs.
I don't know what it is.
Maybe it's the air or the way that they're baked,
but it's such a gentle heat that when they come out
they're light and fluffy and so delicate
and so delicious too.
We're gonna be baking these in a five-inch ceramic quiche
dish, and you wanna just spray it lightly with baking spray.
Then you're gonna add five mini florets of broccoli,
doesn't have to be cooked.
You can just put it in there raw.
Then in a small Pyrex pitcher, you're gonna crack in one egg
and then fill up your pitcher to 1/2 cup with heavy cream.
Then you can whisk that all up until it's combined,
and then slowly pour it into your quiche dish,
and then you're gonna top it with a tablespoon
of finely shredded cheddar cheese.
So I'm just using the Mexican blend cheddar cheese.
You wanna do the finely shredded because they're not
in there for very long and the finely shredded will actually
melt quicker than the thicker shredded.
Then you're gonna put your dish in the air fryer.
You're gonna set the temperature for 325.
So these do bake at a lower temperature and I think
that's why the eggs end up so soft and delicate.
Then you're gonna go for 10 minutes.
After the 10 minute mark, when you open that air fryer,
you will see the most delicious quiche waiting for you.
This is so quick and easy that it's great for
a weekday breakfast if you're running out the door,
or I also make them for lunch.
Okay, now next up, you haven't lived until you've had
a grilled cheese sandwich in the air fryer.
Not only is it so much quicker and easier than putting it
in a pan, but the crispiness that you get,
and then the cheese underneath gets all melty.
It is like the best thing in the world.
So my one tip with making a grilled cheese sandwich
in an air fryer is to use white sandwich bread
because they do get so crispy.
If you're using like denser, thicker bread,
they tend to get a little bit too hard and crunchy,
but that white sandwich bread, that is like perfect
because it's crunchy, but also still soft and chewy.
So you're just gonna brush some melted butter on each side
of the bread, and then for our cheese, I like to use
three slices and do an assortment.
So I'll do a sharp cheddar, a Swiss, and then a mozzarella.
A combination of those three cheese varieties is so good.
Pop it in the air fryer at 350
and let it go for 10 minutes.
One of the things that I love about the air fryer
is that it's hands-free cooking.
You can have your grilled cheese sandwich going
while you're heating up your tomato soup.
I've got a couple of great recipes for tomato soup.
I'll leave you links in the description.
But then once your grilled cheese sandwich is done,
you'll see it's all toasty and the cheese is all melty
and then serve it with your tomato soup,
which is all ready to go.
This is a really quick and easy lunch idea,
or you could also make it for an easy dinner.
So now we had to include something sweet because sometimes
you get the craving for something sweet and you don't
wanna make a full dessert.
You just want a bite or two.
Well, I discovered you could actually make these really
delicious baklava bites in the air fryer.
So baklava can be pretty time consuming to make
and then you're stuck with a big pan of baklava,
which is pretty sweet.
You can make these, which are so much quicker and easier,
and just have a bite or two of baklava
when the craving strikes.
You wanna be using about seven to eight sheets
of the phyllo dough, and you wanna cut it
to four inches by four inches.
Then you're gonna brush melted butter, not on every sheet,
but maybe every two.
Then you're going to place a tablespoon
of finely chopped walnuts in the center.
Then on top of the walnuts, you're gonna drizzle a teaspoon
of honey, then a little pinch of cinnamon,
and then a little bit of orange zest.
Then you're gonna bring all those corners together
and kind of create like a little purse with it.
So if you press the phyllo dough down, it will actually
stick to the honey that's underneath, and create these
fun little kind of purse designs.
Then you're going to place it in the air fryer
at 375 degrees Fahrenheit, and go for anywhere
from seven to 10 minutes.
Once it's done, you'll see how cute they look.
The phyllo dough creates this really beautiful top
and garnish with some finely chopped pistachios.
This is a great little dessert to serve if you're having
people coming over for coffee last minute or if you just
want a little bite of something sweet after dinner
and not take the time to make a full dessert.
Okay, next up, chicken tenders.
Now I know that this as cliche as it gets when it comes
to the air fryer.
Everybody's making the chicken tenders
and the mozzarella sticks, but, the reason why
they're making them, they are pretty good.
But I've really perfected my chicken tender recipe
for the air fryer and I just had to share it with you
because they're just too good.
You're gonna take a pound of chicken tenders,
make sure that you salt each one on both sides,
because this is going to create a really moist
and juicy chicken tender.
Then in a medium size bowl, you're going to combine 2/3 cup
of panko bread crumbs.
I love the panko bread crumbs because it creates
a really nice crunch to the chicken tenders.
But we're gonna mix that with some traditional bread crumbs.
If you wanna get the Italian bread crumbs, you can.
Or you can use the plain bread crumbs
and just add a teaspoon of Italian seasoning.
Then we're also gonna add 1/3 of a cup
of freshly grated Parmesan cheese.
I do think that's a secret ingredient, because it does help
all the bread crumbs bind together when it starts to melt
in the air fryer, and it does give you one more
level of flavor.
And then in a shallow bowl, crack in two eggs
and give those a whisk.
There, now we have everything ready to go,
and then the next thing you wanna have ready is a sheet pan
lined with parchment paper, because this is going to hold
our chicken tenders as we start to bread them.
You wanna take one chicken tender, dip it in the egg bath,
then dip it in the bread crumb mixture and cover it all
with the bread crumbs, packing it down, making sure
it's adhering, and then transfer it to the baking sheet.
Just repeat this process until all your chicken tenders
are breaded and ready to go.
Once you have all your chicken tenders laid out
on your sheet pan, I do like to give them a spray
with some olive oil.
This is my other thing that I've discovered when cooking
in the air fryer.
These little olive oil spray cans are really the way to go,
because it allows you to put a little bit of oil
so that you get a little bit better crunch without drenching
the thing in oil if you were just drizzling it.
Then you can place three or four in your air fryer,
whatever fits, and then you're gonna bake them at 350
for just 12 minutes.
I find you don't even have to flip them.
They actually get really crispy on the bottom side too.
Now if you're preparing this for a dinner, I would take
the ones that are cooked, put them on a sheet pan,
and pop them in a 250 degree oven just to keep them warm
while you go through the rest of the batch.
Then once all the chicken tenders are done,
I like to put them on a platter, sprinkle a little bit
of fleur de sel sea salt on top, and then a little bit
of freshly chopped parsley.
I also like to serve two dipping sauces with these.
So I'll do a honey mustard, which is quite good,
and then I'll also do a ranch for the traditionalists.
They seem to like that.
And I'll leave you my recipes for these dipping sauces
in the description.
Now a really delicious thing to serve with these
chicken tenders are some potato wedges,
and they're also simple to make.
All you need is one russet potato.
I leave the skin on, because I actually think it protects
the potato a bit more and keeps it from becoming
too dried out in the center.
So just cut your potato in half, then cut each half in half,
and then cut those quarters into three equal-size slices.
Then you'll have a potato wedge that's roughly
1/4 of an inch in size.
Spray them with your olive oil spray.
Add a little salt and pepper to taste,
and a tablespoon of freshly minced rosemary.
Then you're gonna place these in the air fryer,
arrange them so that they're as single layer as possible,
so that all the air can circulate,
cook them at the same rate.
Then I like to do a lower temperature, longer air fry
for potatoes, just to make sure that they don't get
too golden brown and that the insides are cooked.
So I find 350 is really the way to go.
And once they're done,
you can put them in a little serving platter.
I like to serve these with some smokey ketchup.
So you basically just take about 1/4 cup of store-bought
ketchup, add a few shakes of smoked paprika, give it a stir,
and that's all you have to do,
and you have like the fanciest ketchup.
It's so good with these fries.
Now if you missed my first video,
Five Awesome Recipes to Make in the Air Fryer,
and wanna get caught up, you can click this annotation
and head over there and I'll show you how to make five new
air fryer recipes.
All right, you guys, I'll see you over there.