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Air Fryer Recipes deliver wonderfully crispy food without all the oil you need in regular frying. The Air Fryer, an increasingly popular kitchen tool, sits on your countertop and works like a miniature convection oven. Hot air is continuously circulated around whatever food you’ve added to the machine’s cooking basket.
The outside of the food achieves crispy, crunchy goodness, while the inside stays perfectly moist and tender. Air fryers do a great job of delivering the fried food experience without any of the actual fryings. To experience the full range of what this little workhorse can do, try out all of the recipes below. Prepare your tastebuds to be impressed—and get ready to give your air fryer the prime kitchen counter real estate such a handy piece of gear deserves.
1. Air Fryer Chicken Nuggets
3 Smart Points
Photo and WW Air Fryer Recipes compliments of SkinnyTaste
Homemade chicken nuggets made with chicken breast chunks coated in breadcrumbs and Parmesan cheese. Fried until crisp, golden, and delicious, your family will love this easy air fryer recipe! Chicken nuggets are the ultimate kid-friendly finger food! But adults love them too.
2. Air Fryer Baked Potatoes
5 Smart Points
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Air Fryer Baked Potatoes – Make perfectly cooked baked potatoes in the air fryer! You’ll never want to use your oven again. The skin will be crispy on the outside and perfectly soft and tender in the middle.
3. Air Fryer Chicken Parmesan
4 Smart Points
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Easy Chicken Parmesan Air Fryer recipe comes out juicy and delicious. Ready in only 18 minutes this is one chicken dinner your family will love! This past weekend we made Chicken Parmesan for dinner, and since it was only three of us eating, I used the air fryer. The results were great, no complaints from my husband so that means he approved!
4. Air Fryer Pork Taquitos Recipe
8 Smart Points
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We have prepared a Weight Watchers Pork Taquitos Recipe in the air fryer. But we like to make it all year long since it is the perfect healthy snack that just about everyone will love. They are also a great snack for after school, bbq’s, and even football season – serve it with some beans like black beans or refried beans and for lighter eaters, you have a Mexican meal they definitely want you to make more often.
5. Cheddar Ranch Chicken Tenders
3 Smart Points
Photo and WW Air Fryer Recipes compliments of EmilyBites
Chicken fingers are one of my absolute favorite foods (I know, my taste buds are very upscale), so I’m always looking for an easy and tasty way to lighten them up. These Cheddar Ranch Chicken Tenders are a super flavorful way to eat the bar food you crave, only much healthier! The tenders are kid-friendly and would make a great weeknight dinner,
6. Air Fryer Baked Sweet Potato
3 Smart Points
Photo and WW Air Fryer Recipes compliments of CourtneysSweets
Our Air Fryer Baked Sweet Potato recipe results in a sweet potato baked to perfection! I’m potato obsessed! I could eat potatoes with every meal if that was a healthy option just to eat potatoes, ALL DAY EVERYDAY! My husband and our daughter also share a love for potatoes, so we have our fair share of them throughout the week.
7. Air Fryer Whole Roasted Chicken with Vegetables
3 Smart Points
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A staple in our house is the rotisserie chickens you can buy in your local supermarket. I use them for everything from salads to tacos and more. They usually come in a variety of flavors and are absolutely delicious but it is kind of a pain to have to run out to get one when the urge strikes.
So, I played around a bit and was excited that I could cook a whole chicken in my air fryer and get that same crispy outside with such moist inside! While you can change out the flavors to make it your own, I opted for a lemon pepper flavor for this recipe because that is the one I love from our local store.
8. AIR FRYER ASPARAGUS
‘0’ Smart Points
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My husband. The genius. So he’s been home for two days now. Two. Whole. Days. And I’ve made Air Fryer Bacon Asparagus. Twice. When I asked what his favorite part was – did he say the bacon? Nope. The crispy ends. Not the bacon? Really? It was so simple really. Why didn’t I think of it? Crispy ends.
9. Crispy Breaded Pork Chops in the Air Fryer
7 Smart Points
Photo and WW Air Fryer Recipes compliments of SkinnyTaste
These Crispy Boneless Breaded Pork Chops come out moist on the inside and crispy on the outside! An easy air fryer recipe that takes only 12 minutes to cook. The flavor was the same, so if you don’t have an air fryer, you can make these in the oven. These cooked much quicker than they do in the oven. But the downside is it fits 3 at a time.
10. Air Fryer Chicken Wings
4 Smart Points
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Cooking wings…real wings…in the air-fryer reduces fat, calories, WW points but not the flavor. These are SKIN ON wings so the points will be higher than skinless chicken. It’s ok. You’re not trying to become a diet hermit who just eats sprouts while doing goat yoga. You can eat real food. You can enjoy the company of others who just want to spend time with you and not hear about why you can only eat carrots and cottage cheese on your latest diet. EAT REAL FOOD… just be healthy doing it.
11. Air Fryer Blooming Onion
3 Smart Points
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This leaner version of the popular restaurant appetizer skips the deep fryer in favor of the air fryer. Onion “petals” are dredged with seasoned flour—featuring an alluring hint of smoked paprika—coated with egg wash, and given a final dusting of a flour-cornmeal mixture before cooking to crispy perfection. You can use either a regular white or yellow onion, which will be more pungent, or a sweet onion (such as Vidalia or Walla Walla), which will taste mellow. The horseradish in the accompanying dipping sauce gives it some punch.
12. Air Fryer Potato-Crusted Fish Fillets
4 Smart Points
Photo and WW Air Fryer Recipes compliments of WeightWatchers
Mild, family-friendly tilapia fillets are slathered with herbed mayonnaise, dredged in instant potato flakes, and air-fried until crispy on the outside and perfectly flaky and moist inside. Be sure to choose fillets no larger than six ounces each; any larger, and you’ll probably be unable to fit two in the air fryer together. The potato flakes are a smart gluten-free breading option and a great pantry staple to keep on hand. Other than breading fish fillets as with this recipe, you can also use the flakes to bind meatballs or meatloaf or to thicken soups and sauces.
13. Air Fryer Spaghetti Squash
‘0’ Smart Points
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We should open our minds to adding a previously tedious to make zero-point veggies…spaghetti squash! I can’t sing the praises of this versatile squash enough. So easy it doesn’t even warrant a “recipe” but I’m adding it here so you can print it out
14. Air Fryer Funnel Cakes
5 Smart Points
Photo and WW Air Fryer Recipes compliments of WeightWatchers
Our two-ingredient dough—made from self-rising flour and Greek yogurt—is the starting point for these easy funnel cakes. The dough gets a flavor boost with a little vanilla extract and cinnamon, then is shaped into long, skinny ropes that snake around each other to replicate the shape of a classic funnel cake. A quick turn in the air fryer makes them crispy on the outside, with a wonderfully chewy interior. A generous dusting of powdered sugar is the perfect finishing touch. If you don’t have an air fryer, you can bake the funnel cakes at 375°F for 5 to 8 minutes.
15. Coconut Shrimp with Mango Dipping Sauce
4 Smart Points
Photo and WW Air Fryer Recipes compliments of WeightWatchers
Cooking these shrimp in an air fryer ensures they’ll be crisp and crunchy in no time at all. As a side, spice up thick slices of pineapple with a dusting of black pepper and ground cinnamon. Surprising and great together for 0 Smart Points.
16. Maple Sausage Sunnies
2 Smart Points
Photo and WW Air Fryer Recipes compliments of IfYouHaveAnEgg
But what about an air fryer? Could we create a Weggo level breakfast but still keep the integrity of that gorgeous yolk? Enter the air fryer….oh my lovely air fryer. My Air Fryer came with a shallow baking pan for making cakes, cornbread, anything else that can’t go directly into the perforated basket.
17. Cornmeal-Crusted Fish Fingers
7 Smart Points
Photo and WW Air Fryer Recipes compliments of WeightWatchers
Forget frozen fish sticks because ours are a game-changer. We like to use tilapia, a mild-flavored, firm-textured fish you can find anywhere.
18. Crispy Buttermilk Onion Rings
6 Smart Points
Photo and WW Air Fryer Recipes compliments of WeightWatchers
Wonderfully crisp and crunchy onion rings are an all-time fave with burgers. These stay crispy for up to an hour, so you have plenty of time to fire up the grill.
19. BBQ Bacon Apple Wonton
1 Smart Points
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I entered not one…but four new recipes and as usual the first one I created was the winner. Hubby enjoyed taste testing every one though and we have four new meal ideas so it’s all good. Imagine my delight when I got this notification from Egglette Kim E letting me know I won…I won…I WON!!!
20. Southern-Style Fried Chicken
7 Smart Points
Photo and WW Air Fryer Recipes compliments of WeightWatchers
Buttermilk makes our chicken tender, a just-right seasoning blend adds extra zing, and the air fryer brings the crispy. Fried chicken demands coleslaw! Use packaged coleslaw mix, a splash of vinegar, a sprinkling of chopped fresh parsley, salt and pepper to taste, and a big dollop of plain fat-free yogurt for richness and tang (all for 0 SmartPoints).
21. Cat Cora’s Air-Fryer Zucchini Tots with Yogurt Sauce
4 Smart Points
Photo and WW Air Fryer Recipes compliments of WeightWatchers
If you don’t have an air-fryer, roast these in a hot oven on parchment paper until golden brown.
22. THAT MAN’S PORK CHOPS
3 Smart Points
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I still just can’t get enough of That Man’s anything. Chicken thighs. Chicken breasts. Turkey Tenderloin. Now pork! It’s just so simple and so yummy there just isn’t any reason not to try one of them.
23. Cheese-Dusted Potato Fries
6 Smart Points
Photo and WW Air Fryer Recipes compliments of WeightWatchers
Russet potatoes are the best choice for air fryer fries. Cut them into scant1/2-inch-thick sticks to make sure they turn out crispy on the outside and creamy on the inside, just the way we like them.
24. Crispy Turkey Empanadas with Spicy Chimichurri Sauce
5 Smart Points
Photo and WW Air Fryer Recipes compliments of WeightWatchers
Though these are made in an air-fryer, you can also bake them in a regular oven. Omit the seeds from the jalapenos if you prefer less heat.
25. WW CANDIED BACON
1 Smart Points
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On a glorious and beautiful Sunday afternoon, we attended the bridal shower of literally Kc’s oldest friend. Andrew (or Andy Poo as we liked to call him) was only a few months old when we moved in next door, Kc was just shy of two. The mom is my accountability-buddy Karen and I was honored to attend her soon to be daughter in law’s special day this week.
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