In case you succumbed to look strain just lately and purchased an air fryer, there’s a robust chance it’s gathering mud behind your pantry.
Air fryers grew to become a fad just a few years in the past after they burst on the scene claiming to magically make fried meals with none oil ― or in some instances, possibly only a teaspoonful. Slightly than submerging French fries in a vat of boiling oil, for instance, you toss your potatoes within the air fryer’s basket and provides them only a spritz of oil whereas the contraption’s fast air expertise blows sizzling air across the meals, producing a crispy, browned exterior and a young inside. It’s actually fairly outstanding.
The machine does have its limitations, although. You’ll be able to’t make your favourite battered fried meals within the air fryer, as a result of the batter will drip proper by way of the holes within the basket and soften utterly off your meals, limiting the machine to breaded fried meals.
However one frequent false impression about air fryers is that they solely make meals you’d consider as “fried.” Whereas the fryer lends a wonderfully crispy texture to meals which are sometimes fried in oil ― suppose Buffalo cauliflower, fried rooster, French fries, falafel ― its convection expertise additionally makes a wonderfully moist meatloaf, for instance, or probably the most tender maple soy-glazed salmon you possibly can think about.
Beneath, we’ve gathered 15 of our favourite meals bloggers’ recipes for the air fryer. Mud off your machine and verify them out now.
(The Philips Airfryer claims to be “the unique Airfryer,” costing round $220, however there’s a slew of choices from all completely different manufacturers and worth factors available on the market now.)
