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title: 'My 10 Greatest Air Fryer Recipes of All Time'
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date: 2026-06-28
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# My 10 Greatest Air Fryer Recipes of All Time

> Source: [My 10 Greatest Air Fryer Recipes of All Time](https://youtube.com/watch?v=iVnU-vGt_xA)

## Summary

In this video, the creator shares their top 10 air fryer recipes, based on years of testing and viewer feedback. The recipes range from whole chicken stock to crispy chicken wings, with detailed instructions and tips.

### Key Points

- **Whole Chicken Breakdown** [00:50] — Breaking down a whole chicken for meal prep uses every part, with bones and skin used for stock and other parts for recipes.
- **#10 Roasted Chicken Stock** [01:01] — Roast chicken bones at 375°F for 20-25 minutes until golden, then slow cook with water and aromatics for 8-12 hours. Save rendered fat for cooking.
- **#9 Crispy Air Fried Tofu** [02:40] — Cut or tear firm tofu into chunks, spray with oil, season with salt, air fry at 375°F for 10 minutes, then toss every 1-2 minutes for 5 more minutes until crispy.
- **#8 Healthier Falafel** [04:38] — Soak chickpeas overnight, pulse in food processor with onion, garlic, basil, parsley, lemon juice, and salt. Form into balls, air fry at 370°F for 8-9 minutes.
- **#7 Grilled Cheese with Crispy Onions** [07:01] — Slice onions thin, spray with oil, air fry at 300°F for 15 minutes until crispy. Assemble sandwich with cheese and onions, air fry at 358°F for 3-4 minutes.
- **#6 Teriyaki Salmon Bowl** [08:16] — Season salmon, air fry at 380°F or broil for 6-7 minutes. Optional teriyaki glaze. Serve with crispy broccoli (or cauliflower) air fried until crisp.
- **#4 Crispy Soy Chicken** [10:37] — Marinate chicken thighs with garlic, ginger, five spice powder, dark soy sauce, and honey overnight. Air fry at 385°F for 10 minutes.
- **#3 Cornflake Chicken Fingers** [12:20] — Use crushed cornflakes for breading. Batch cook and freeze; air fry when needed. Kids love them.
- **#2 Thrice-Cooked French Fries** [13:22] — Boil potato slices for 10 minutes, air fry at 385°F for 10 minutes, then at 400°F for 8-10 minutes, shaking occasionally.
- **#1 Chicken Wings** [14:52] — Coat wings with flour and barbecue spice mix (e.g., chipotle barbecue). Air fry at 400°F for 9-10 minutes. Do not overcrowd.

### Conclusion

The video provides a curated list of 10 air fryer recipes that are simple, effective, and time-saving, perfect for meal prep and everyday cooking.

## Transcript

wow so the first time I ever used an air
fryer was in this video right here 7
years ago I went in very skeptical came
out an air fryer fanatic and since then
I have tested hundreds of recipes pretty
much everything you can possibly air fry
I've tested over the years I've put out
dozens of air fryer videos racking in
over a 100 million views and I've read
thousands of your comments on the
recipes you really resonate with so I
wanted to put together one video with my
top 10 air fryer recipes of all time
these are the recipes that all of you
have loved over the years plus the
things that I still make on a weekly
basis and we're going to start things
off with breaking down a whole chicken
because air fryers it turns out are just
really exceptional for chicken meal prep
now of course you don't need to buy
whole chicken and break it down yourself
but it turns out that every single piece
of this chicken gets used in like four
different recipes on this list which
brings me to the number 10 spot on this
list the ultimate roasted chicken stock
an essential for me when it comes to
meal prep so once I have all of these
pieces of chicken I'm going to save the
breast wings and thighs for upcoming
recipes and I'll take the remaining
carcass drumstick and skin and pop that
right into my Air fryer of course the
drumsticks those would be valuable in
other recipes just not anything that I'm
air frying today so they will also make
great stuff now I generally cook this on
just a medium heat over a longer period
period of time so I'll start off 20
minutes 375 and we'll see where we're at
right so that's where we're at now you
can see some pretty good Browning but I
think we could definitely render more
fat get it a little more Brown so I'm
just going to do five more minutes all
right now that is perfect fully rendered
skin golden brown ready to S now once
roasted they go right into a slow cooker
or a pressure cooker or just a stock pot
whatever you use to make your stock and
I'll cover the roasted chicken bones
with water and aromatics are completely
optional I'm going to add a full head of
garlic and some onion and slow cook that
for around 8 to 12 hours I find gives
you a really nice flavorful roasted
stock and of course from all of that
skin and fat that render down in the
roasting process it catches in the
bottom of the air fryer and you just
want to dump that off and save it to
cook with over the next few days and
after about 10 hours I'll strain off the
bones I'll strain off the aromatics and
boom you have by far the most simple yet
effectively delicious way to make a
stock which makes up probably around 90%
of the broth in stock I use in my
household coming in at the number nine
spot we have crispy air fried tofu and I
can tell you since I learned this
technique tofu has never touched a pan
again in my kitchen it's just so easy
all you need is a big block of firm tofu
and what's great is you really don't
need to dry it off since since it dries
out when you air fry it you can cut it
up into nice even cubes sometimes I'll
do that but most of the time I'm too
lazy and I just rip it up into little
chunks and put that right into the air
fryer then I'll spray it down with
whatever oil I have on hand I'll hit it
with some salt and that goes right into
the air fryer so we're just going to do
375 we'll roast for 10 minutes and then
we'll start shaking it up so we're 10
minutes in you can see got that nice
base brown but it's not crispy yet but
you can toss it no problem so now we're
just going to cook for another 5 minutes
I'll toss it every 1 or two minutes
until it's perfect here we go look at
that
crispiness and trust me once you have
these little crispy tofu chunks you will
find ways to use them I'll throw them in
salads I'll throw them in soups they
also make a great meat replacement for
really any stir
fry now before we move on to number
eight I have some very exciting news
which is the launch of this thing right
here the ultimate air fryer cookbook now
the reason I made this is because air
fryers for me have been so influential
I've collected all of these recipes over
the years that I still use daily in my
meal prep and I wanted to bring them all
together in one convenient companion
that you could have with you in the
kitchen while you're doing your own meal
prep so this book has all 10 of the
recipes on this list obviously cuz they
are my favorite plus a bunch more again
all of these recipes are things that
I've tested over the years that I still
use today and if you're an air fryer fan
I think you will really get some good
use out of this book so if you're
interested check out the link below and
we will move on to number eight which is
one of my favorite recipes in this book
I call it healthier Falafel and since
first making it it's the only way I have
ever made Falafel since so this recipe
starts out like any authentic falafel
recipe we got to soak some chickpeas
overnight until they're fully hydrated
and what I do is I throw them in a towel
and I'll just roll that around a bit to
absorb any excess moisture on the
chickpeas I'll dump them into a food
processor along with some onions garlic
basil parsley about half the juice of a
lemon some salt to season and I'll pulse
that down to you get a consistency just
like this if you don't have one of these
special Falafel scoopers just use a
spoon like this to scoop some up and
then kind of form it in your hand and I
will add about six to nine pieces
directly to my air fryer now according
to the book you say 370 around 8 to 9
minutes see what happens all right
looking good you can go a little bit
more on the Browning if you want but I'm
happy with that Carly when she first
started working here never us an air
fryer anti-air fryer sort of coming from
the restaurant world I see a lot of that
I hear a lot of that and coming from
like a really small kitchen with no
counter space that is my biggest
resistance to it yeah oh like in your
house not in a restaurant you're saying
in my house your house as a home cook
but now that you have an air fryer but
now that I have an air fryer I do use it
you're converted I am a true evangelist
and Carly has converted and like this to
me is such a good reason why air fryers
are the best I don't deep fry Falafel
anymore it's just so much oil and this
is a great
product it lives in its own world
because you can't bake Falafel that well
in the oven I've never had a baked
falafel in the oven that I think is good
no cuz they don't stay crispy aren't
these amazing they're really good that
is so good that's good you're converted
I'm converted also I think now like I'd
rather have an air fryer on my counter
than have my apartment smell like fire
oil yeah you remember when deep fryers
like countertop deep fryers I had one in
my catering days I feel like those
things have dropped off since air fryers
have come out I mean because why would
you use that over this that was also
such a novelty thing like you said I
used that a few times and I'm like I
don't want nasty oil what do you do with
all of this oil yeah coming in at number
seven we've got grilled cheese in the
air fryer but a very special grilled
cheese because it starts off with
crisping up some onions so I've got two
small onions here I will just slice
those up nice and thin and they get
added right to the air fryer I'll spray
those down with some oil and I'm going
to cook them on a low heat so they sort
of dehydrate a little bit and caramelize
over time so 300 usually does the trick
for about 15 minutes until they're
crispy like this now I'm a luck man
because I have a beautiful fresh baked
sandwich loaf right here and I'll take
two slices I'm going to add some cheddar
cheese anything that melts will work
great for this and then on goes those
crispy onions and this is not in the
actual cookbook but I have so many
incredible arloom Tomatoes coming in
right now that I could not resist
slicing one up and just throwing that in
the mix then this gets coated with some
butter or you could just spray it with
oil and into the air fryer goes just
like the book says we're going to do 3
58
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minutes after trying it with the Tomato
I don't know if I can call that optional
anymore oh my God coming in at number
six we have one of my favorite full
meals to make in this thing which is the
Teriyaki and crispy broccoli salmon Bowl
which starts off with a nice piece of
salmon this is a pretty big filet so I'm
going to cut it in half to portion it
out and I'm personally slicing off the
skin today you can air fry it if you
would like a lot of times I'll air fry
the skin separately and add it on later
and I'll season it up with salt and
pepper and this can go in the fridge
overnight to brine or you could cook it
right away which I'm going to be doing
so I'll just coat it in a little bit of
olive oil and throw it right into the
air fryer so there's a few ways you can
go on cooking your salmon going to place
it right in the middle if your air fryer
has a brail setting you can set it for
broil probably needs 6 7 minutes or you
could just regular reg air fryer roast
at 380 that will work as well I'm going
to
broil all right so now this is optional
I've got my teriyaki sauce here recipe
in the book right before the salmon is
done you can see it's got a nice crust
already if you just take a little brush
and give it a little basting then I'll
throw it back in and just finish the
cooking and that glaze will just cook
right into the crust so now that we have
our beautiful teriyaki salmon number
five on this list is either crispy
broccoli or Cris be cauliflower both of
these veggies take sort of equal first
place for the veggie I cook the most in
the air fryer and you've seen me do the
time trials with cauliflower before
you're saving a good 30 minutes by not
having to preheat the oven and just the
intensity of cooking that you get from
an air fryer which for me with my busy
lifestyle feeding kids I am taking every
single time so to finish off the teraki
salmon Bowl I just sliced up some
florettes coated them with some oil and
some salt threw them in the air fryer
got nice and crispy and plated
everything up so to serve it up I've got
some white
rice that right there look at the inside
of that still a little bit medium rare
you can cook it longer if you want more
piece crispy air fryer broccoli over
here horse beautiful teriyaki sauce I
love this meal because it's complete and
most of it happens in the air fryer so
there's not much mess so good wow salmon
is another item that I now exclusively
cook in the air FR all right so we have
four left and three chicken recipes made
this top four starting with number four
we've got the crispy soy chicken shout
out Tiffy cooks her recipes are the best
she always comes up in my testing viral
recipe series and this crispy soy
chicken has become a go-to for me it's
really simple to make you take some
chicken thigh and I'll grate in some
garlic and ginger and then I'll hit it
with some five spice powder which I just
ground up myself then I add a few
tablespoons of dark soy sauce you can
use regular soy sauce you will get a
much deeper flavor and color if you use
the dark soy and finally just a little
bit of Honey to sweeten it up and this
will marinate overnight until it looks
like this then right into the air fryer
all right chicken looking great we're
going to put this skin Side Up CU that's
where the heating element is on our air
fryer we want that skin crispy I am
going to just so factory settings 385
and we'll start with 10 minutes and
we'll check in after that all right here
we go
wo you barely can see it look at the
caramelization and the bubbles on that
chicken that is
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nuts I've made this dish with regular
soy sauce and dark soy sauce which I
have here and you can see the dark soy
sauce you get a much darker more intense
chicken this really is a simple dish I
can smell the roasted Five Spice in
there m
wo the closest thing I can think of is
that mall style bourbon chicken you get
a real infusion of flavor from the
marinade there's no salt other than the
soy sauce and you don't need it and you
don't really need a sauce either because
that salt carries through the entire
dish that is awesome thanks again Tiffy
Cooks now coming in at number three
we've got what I call my family favorite
chicken finger because everyone in my
family loves these things I probably
make them every single week I first
figured these out from testing six
different chicken tenders to get the
best in this video right here and the
cornflake breading was number one pure
Corn Flakes so that's what I do I grind
up some corn flakes I make a three-part
breading you know how this works at this
point now what I love about the air
fryer is you can batch cook these
chicken tenders so if you're making some
food for your kids you could just fry a
few up you can pop some like I have
right here in the fridge these will last
a few days in the fridge and stay fine
or you can take these and throw them in
the freezer and they'll last in your
freezer obviously for a lot longer and
you can just pop them off and throw them
in there they'll just take a little
longer to cook now these things not only
look amazing but something about just
the Corn Flakes taste amazing now kids
love these things but really they just
taste like a perfect chicken KATU at the
end of the day and I will eat these any
day of the week coming in at the number
two spot we had to have french fries
very high on this list but not any old
French fries just like the chicken a few
years ago I tested every single french
fry you can make in the air fryer and
this came in at the number one spot I'm
using some Burbank potatoes from my
garden but like I say in the book any
single potato paired with this technique
and air fried is going to be good trust
me I've tried pretty much all of them so
it's a pretty standard Thrice cooked fry
you slice up the potatoes skin on or off
up to you I'll first cook them in some
boiling water for about 10 minutes just
until they're cooked through but still
holding their shape completely then they
get drained off and I'll place them in
the air fryer give them a spray and send
them off for their first cook we are
twice frying these we're going to start
off with our sort of parcook 385 10
minutes all right first cook you can see
just a sort of light crispy coating now
you can let these sit in the fridge
overnight you can freeze them they're
just par cooked fries if they're looking
dry you can give them another
spray to shake and I'm going to go right
back in cuz I don't have the patience
and I just want them next now 400 we're
going up to and we'll do
another 8 to 10 minutes all right so
it's 4 minutes left and this is when I
start you can see they're getting crispy
so I'll just give it a shake every one
or two minutes just to make sure the
crispiness is even all right let's see
what we
got
Perfection and finally number one on
this list did you guess it right you
probably did chicken wings the amount of
chicken wings that I have made in the
air fryer over the last 7 years is
insane and this specific recipe is kind
of converted from a few a few years ago
I did put out a video testing six
different techniques for chicken wings
the recipe that I put in the book is a
slightly converted version of that
something that I think is just a little
easier to do than the winner of that
video because at the core that's what
air frying is all about it's got to be
simple that's the whole point of this
machine so I only had two wings from
that whole chicken breakdown which is
not going to cut it so I got another
pack which I broke down into pieces and
the wings go into a bowl and I hit them
with about 2 tbspoon of flour then you
can use any type of barbecue spice mix
you have something like this will do I'm
actually using the leftover Chipotle
barbecue spice mix from my Chipotle
video because it is incredible so I'll
throw that onto the wings if your spice
mix is salt-free of course add some salt
at this point and they should have a
nice even flour and spice coating just
like this now these can go right in the
air fryer but I do like letting them sit
in the fridge so that seasoning can
penetrate a bit and the exterior will
dry out a little bit to give you extra
crispiness once these are air fry you
don't want to overcrowd these so they
won't get as crispy it's important so
I'll probably do half spread them out
nicely that's plenty now if you don't
have flour in there you don't really
need oil because the fat renders but I'm
just going to give him the lightest
spray just to start things off so we get
that perfect crisp on the exterior I'm
going to go
400 we'll start with 9 Minutes 9 or 10
minutes all right just going to check in
it 9 minutes looking so nice I'm going
to do like one or two more minutes let's
do two more minutes so just that very
light coating of flour gives it that
nice thin crackly crust these are just
perfect to me of course you can coat
these in any barbecue sauce you want or
you can just eat them like this which I
do a lot
M that recipe perfected over the years
Harley would you say you're a wing
connoisseur um no no but I do like wings
okay they're perfect yeah I wouldn't
even put barbecue sauce on yeah a lot of
times I just serve those like with the
side salad so good so crispy so those
were my top 10 recipes remember to check
out my new Ultimate Air fryer cookbook a
lot of the air fryer cookbooks that I've
seen they're like 500 recipes which I
think is so unnecessary I wanted to
create something that was attainable
something simple that would really work
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