Air Fried Deliciousness: Easy Recipes that Satisfy


Happy Friday Reader!

These delicious recipes will make good use of your air fryer, providing satisfying crunch, quick cooking and mouthwatering flavor. Enjoy!

Italian Chicken Cutlets

Everyone will be excited for dinner when these delicious Italian chicken cutlets are on the menu! Breaded in a mixture of Italian flavors and Parmesan cheese, these juicy and flavorful chicken cutlets are a perfect complement to sides like my Best Easy Chickpea Salad, a cool, refreshing Shirazi Salad (Easy Persian Cucumber Salad), or my quick and easy House Salad Recipe. Leftovers are scrumptious hot or cold. Batch cook these for easy lunches and dinners all week long!

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Air Fryer Stuffed Peppers

Such a versatile and tasty meal! Air Fryer Stuffed Peppers are a great way to pack tons of nutrition and flavor into one dish. This twist on a classic recipe is stuffed with curried ground lamb, but use your favorite fillings. You can stuff a pepper with everything from sloppy joe filling to your favorite egg roll in a bowl fillings. Pack them with your favorite meatloaf mixture. Fill them with your favorite chicken or beef taco fillings and some Mexican rice. Stuffed peppers are a great way to get creative with rice, vegetables, and the protein of your choice. Let your imagination inspire you, and let your air fryer make them deliciously simple.

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Air Fryer Asparagus Recipe

The air fryer does something magical to vegetables. It concentrates their natural sugars and quickly produces all the flavor and texture of roasting or grilling them. This easy Air Fryer Asparagus is a winning side dish with or without the easy short-cut hollandaise sauce. You're gonna love it!

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Succulent Air Fryer Cornish Hens

Cornish hens are simply tiny chickens, and the air fryer excels at making them crispy on the outside while keeping them tender and juicy on the inside. I cook them with delicious roasted vegetables for an all-in-one, easy dinner that never fails to impress. This recipe is best suited to oven-style air fryers, but if you have a double-sided drawer-style air fryer, you can definitely cook the veggies on one side and the Cornish hens on the other. PRO TIP if you don't have an air fryer. You can achieve similar-to-air-fryer results by using the same recipe/method, but simply switch to the convection or air fry settings on your traditional oven. It takes a little longer than in a countertop air fryer, but it is superb. Use Cornish hens or even whole chickens for a family dinner no one will want to miss! You'll need this oven-sized air-fryer basket with a tray [affiliate link] so you can cook everything at the same time using the recipe instructions. I got mine on Amazon and actually use it several times a week.
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Delicious Air Fryer Gyro Pizza

With an air fryer, some pita bread and your favorite toppings, your air fryer will become the pizza oven of your dreams! Personalized custom pizzas are quick and easy with this easy method. My recipe makes delectable gyro pizzas, but switch up the ingredients to your own favorites, get creative and enjoy unlimited pizza satisfaction. (But seriously, the homemade gyro meat on this pizza will change your life! So good.)

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Air Fryer Chicken Cordon Bleu, Quick and Easy

Tender, juicy chicken breasts stuffed with thinly sliced ham and oozing with melty cheese, all wrapped in a crispy, crunchy breading? Yes, please! This is so good; it seems elegant yet is surprisingly easy. The next time you want a really special meal, this recipe needs to be a contender. Absolutely to die for!

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Air Fryer Chicken Cutlets, Quick Easy & Delicious

The best not-fried fried chicken you'll ever make! These air fryer chicken cutlets are delectable and oh so easy. They pair well with Creamy Red Skin Mashed Potatoes, Loaded Baked Potato Salad Recipe or my refreshing Bell Pepper Salad recipe. Batch prep and freeze them for use in future meals. They're spectacular when you need an easy meal in a hurry.

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Buffalo Ranch Chicken Melts

These irresistible sandwiches need to be at the top of your list for easy recipes to make on busy weeknights. Pre-cooked chicken (or rotisserie chicken) smothered in creamy buffalo ranch sauce, combined with gooey, melty cheese, all on a deliciously toasty bun. My Buffalo Ranch Chicken Melts are a home run every single time!

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More Easy Air Fryer Recipes

Your air fryer can do so much more than just reheat pizza or make chicken nuggets. I hope you'll try some of these recipes and start experimenting with all the delicious possibilities.

Have a wonderfully blessed weekend, Friend! I hope you'll discover air fryer recipes in the list above that'll make your dinners delicious and easy next week. And most of all, I hope you get to share them with the people you love most!

What's For Dinner?

This is the part of the newsletter where I share recipe ideas from some of my best blogging friends and myself to inspire you with what's for dinner at our houses this week. That gives you seven days worth of new recipes to inspire you for your own delicious meal plan. Enjoy!

Favorite Kitchen Tools for Air Fryer Recipes

These are Amazon and Walmart affiliate links to some of my favorite air fryer, kitchen tools and ingredients for making quick, affordable and easy air fryer recipes. I may earn commissions on qualifying purchases. You can read my affiliate disclosure here.

  • Breville Air Fryer Smart Oven: My favorite countertop air fryer is oven-style so an entire meal for a family can be made at once. It bakes, broils, toasts and so much more in addition to air-frying. Cleanup is quick and easy and it gets a daily workout!
  • My favorite air fryer rack and tray for "air frying" in a convection oven. Get similar to air fry results using the convection oven setting on your conventional oven. My oven actually has an air fryer setting, but even if yours doesn't the convection setting will circulate the hot air and give crisp results similar to an air fryer. Because the oven compartment is larger, it does take longer than countertop air fryers, but the results are still delicious!
  • Greek Pita Bread from Walmart makes the most extraordinary personal pizza crusts for the air fryer. It comes in white or wheat.
  • I use both Italian Panko and Plain Panko in a lot of my air fryer recipes. I just grab it at Walmart.
  • If your Walmart carries the Marketside Bakery items, we love these Ciabatta Rolls for making sandwiches and melts. They are heavenly!

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Glenda Embree

Glenda Embree: Making Homemade Easy shares easy, approachable recipes to help you create delicious weeknight dinners, I believe cooking from scratch doesn’t have to be complicated and that YOU can do it. My simple recipes, tutorials, and cooking tips will help you get weeknight dinners on the table with less stress. Forget takeout or the drive-thru. Let me show you how to make homemade easy.

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