I am a big fan of air fryer french fries, and homemade air fryer recipes. This is why why am going to tell you a little bit more about cooking french fries in an air fryer.
What are the benefits of using an air fryer for french fries
There are many french fries recipes out there; however, many use deep-frying and a lot of extra oil.
Using an air fryer for french fries is the healthier way to cook fries. This way you can cook a solid and copious meal at a low price point, after buying some of the very few ingredients needed at your local grocery store.
Using an air fryer is of course the best way and much better than deep-frying, it’s healthier because it uses less oil (and less added calories), and you end up having your own crisp fries, at no extra cost in less time, and in the comfort of your home. Dishes made with an air fryer taste good, and the recipe described below will help you to obtain crispy air fryer fries, with great taste. It will be a real game-changer for you and you will want to cook your own fries very often or try some other great recipes using air frying (e.g., sweet potato fries, steak fries, chicken breasts, air fryer potato wedges, air fryer frozen french fries, waffle fries, air fryer hamburgers, homemade french fries, air fryer chicken wings etc) and all of that without using a deep fryer.
The cooking process, when you use an air fryer, is also very simple, and its definitely the easiest way to cook frozen crinkle fries, an easy side dish, or any of your favorite recipes, and to obtain a taste and results similar to your favorite fast-food fries.
This type of dish is particularly once on a game day when you have some guests and maybe not so much time to cook.
So what type of french fries dishes can you cook using an air fryer?
You can cook different types of fries and other dishes: you can cook golden crinkles, chicken breast, tater tots, curly fries, crispy french fries, shoestring fries, ore-ida crinkle cut fries, frozen fries, or homemade fries. As you can see, the combinations are infinite, and you can literally cook any type of food fries in an air fryer.
In the recipe below I will show you how to air fry frozen french fries (instead of deep fried french fries); these fries can be used as a wonderful appetizer as the main course, added to meat and/or veggies.
Once cooked, you can always add your favorite dipping sauce, your favorite seasonings, your favorite sauce, or some of your french fry seasoning.
What do you need to air fry french fries
You will of course need the air fryer, a bag of fries (e.g., you can use ore ida french fries or different brands), some oil spray if you would like to give them more color (but it’s is not necessary otherwise), a little oil (e.g., vegetable oil) onion powder, salt, and pepper.
Recipe
You can use frozen ore ida crinkle cut fries and they go well with fried chicken
- Add a single layer of crisps in the air fryerspeear a little oil (ni need to defrost)
- You can also season them half way through the cooking with rosemary, pepper, etc
- Preheat your favorite air fryer at 400 degrees F (or 185 C) for a minute or so.
- Add the fries to the basked, place basket in the fryer, and close the lead and let the hot air do its job.
- Youcan spray a little oil on the fries (after you spray the air fryer basket) if you wish, but this is not compulsory, and you don’t need much oil.
- Cook the for 14 minutes; flipping them half way through.
- Remove the fries from the air fryer and be ready to taste the best frozen french fries.
- if you have decided to cook in batches, then after the first batch, yo can repeat the steps the next time described in the above guidelines.
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- The cooking time may also depend on the power of the fryer. So, depending on its power it could take less than 14 minutes.
- You don’t need to use only one layer of fries, but make sure that the air fryer is not overloaded.
- If you have not bought your air fryer yet, you will need to consider the capacity of the air fryer (a minimum of 2 quart air fryer for one person, and five quart air fryer for a family); so your perfect air fryer will include a good capacity and a high power to ensure that the fries cook in no time and that you have cooked enough for everyone.
- An important step is to toss or shake thefries every 5 minutes or at least half was through the cooking time.