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.
