Recipes for using an air fryer please

Are your liners the ones designed for cake tins, LtEve? Basically circles of grease proof paper? I have some of those that I could press into service. What do you use them for?

I've done garlic bread in there, I just put it on a sheet of baking paper slightly scrunched up at the sides. Now I've got my liners I'd use one of those.

Good idea Doodledog. Please report back the results Tina49. I’ll have my grandkids for a couple of nights next week and garlic bread is sure to feature on the menu!

I shall try it tomorrow!

It might work if you wrapped it in tinfoil?

Not tried a garlic baguette in it Tina49. I wonder if the butter would run out and burn on the pan?

So you could do a garlic baguette in the airfryer?

It’s great for part baked baguettes. Just cut them in half to fit. I did one today for the lunch time soup. Packet said 12-14 mins in a fan oven. It was baked perfectly in airfryer in 6-7 mins. Faster than the time to preheat an oven.

Great, I'll give it a go next time I have croissants - thanks .

Doodledog

Thanks, Tina. The aubergines are only sprayed with oil, though. It was the bit about putting it on its side that confused me - does tinfoil have a side?

LtEve, heating croissants is a good call - do you use the 'bake' setting for that?

Mine is a basic one with just temp and time settings, I put them in on about 120 degrees for five minutes although it does vary depending on how well baked they are in the first place. I check after the first three minutes.
It seems so wasteful to heat a whole oven for one croissant and the air fryer uses less electricity and doesn't need pre-heating.

Thanks, Tina. The aubergines are only sprayed with oil, though. It was the bit about putting it on its side that confused me - does tinfoil have a side?

LtEve, heating croissants is a good call - do you use the 'bake' setting for that?

Place a piece of foil in the Cook and Crisp basket with a layer of olive oil spray. Make sure it is rolled up on its side to allow air to circulate

Perhaps it means you make a shallow ‘dish’ with the foil, to avoid getting oil directly on the Airfryer?

I use mine for chicken breasts, bacon, fired tomatoes, roasted vegetables, heating croissants, grilled cheese sandwiches and more. You do have to turn the sandwiches over but then I would on the grill.
I've bought some baking paper liners from Amazon so I can add sauces/marinades without to much of a mess. it's very easy to clean though.

Me again .

Can anyone help me to translate this, please? It's from a book called The Big Metric Ninja Foodi Cookbook With Pictures, which is quite 'American' in that it uses ingredients such as 'dried ranch sauce', and features hilariously amateur food photography, but has some quite good suggestions for recipes.

Anyway, what do you think this means?

Place a piece of foil in the Cook and Crisp basket with a layer of olive oil spray. Make sure it is rolled up on its side to allow air to circulate.

The recipe is for aubergine 'chips', which are breadcrumbed aubergine slices that get air fried. There are no further clues in the recipe as to what to do with the foil or why.

My daughter air fries sugarsnap peas, and says they are lovely. I plan to try that when I get home (we are away just now, and I got a Ninja just before coming away).

I would really like a good all-round cookbook for it though. The ones I've seen on Amazon all seem American, get bad reviews for needing US ingredients such as grits, and neither The Works nor Waterstones had anything on offer today.

I also wonder whether it matters if the recipes are for a different model? There are so many, and they all seem different from one another. Mine is one with the slider on the lid. I got the 14 in 1, as I thought the only difference between it and the 15 in 1 was the meat probe, but I now think that there is a setting on the 15 to 1 that mine doesn't have (steam crisp or similar), so I may regret my choice. They must bring a new one out very frequently, so I hope they don't go out of date before long.

Any advice would be welcome, as would a book recommendation.

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I have joined Pinterest and at least daily I receive recipes and easy methods of cleaning anything from door ovens to showers and loos.

The recipes are American and occasionally there is food I do not recognise but I still find it helpful.

BlueBelle That book is about half vegetarian recipes but if you go onto Amazon there are loads of vegetarian and vegan air fryer recipe books.

BlueBelle

Can’t imagine it’s that useful for a vegetarian or is it ?

I’m vegetarian and bought an Airfryer quite recently. I find it’s pretty useful for roast potatoes, roasted mixed veg, cooking veggie burgers (once a week, when we take GS to football practice), etc

www.recipevibes.com/air-fryer-vegetables/

Can’t imagine it’s that useful for a vegetarian or is it ?

I’ve just bought a book called ‘Air Fryer Cookbook’ by Jenny Tschiesche from The Works for £6. It has loads of recipes but I found it really useful for estimating cooking times. I bought it because the photos actually showed the Air fryer that I have so I presumed that it was written with that one in mind.

kittylester I do not believe in keeping some food warm - I believe in cooking everything together but I live on my own I can work around that. I see recipes for 4 for my air fryer and I do not think it is possible.

OK, what's an Instant pot do please?

Does a Ninja do, say, a roast dinner all at once or do you have to keep bits warm? Currently, I can cook a whole roast dinner in my tall fan oven all at once.

I have the 'basic' one and you can cook just about anything - as the Ninja air fryer has adjustable temperatures. It's far quicker than oven cooking.

I make a lot of toasted sandwiches in mine, complete dinners - and lovely roast potatoes. I have an Instantpot too so I rarely use the cooker these days. Everything cleans easily in the dishwasher - winner!

I’m favouring the basic Ninja air fryer which has just one big basket and a grill/crisper thingy accessory. It’s currently £30 cheaper in John Lewis than on all other on line sellers I’ve seen so I’m very tempted.

I’m going to look for a good recipe book though as I fancy trying some different meals other than basic meat and veg.