Air FRYER COOKBOOK
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Everyone agrees that food cooked in an air fryer has less than half the fat of the same food cooked in a deep fat fryer, and that means far fewer calories. Great news for people with type 2 diabetes or heart conditions although all health professionals agree that you shouldnt live just on food cooked in your air fryer. The dishes you cook need to be part of a balanced diet that includes fresh fruit and vegetables.
Several studies have found that food cooked in an air fryer has lower levels of a substance called acrylamide. This can be a cancer-causing agent and is naturally created when starchy foods, such as potatoes are cooked at high temperatures for a long time. So, reducing the amount of starch by soaking starchy vegetables before cooking, along with shorter cooking times and less oil, are thought to reduce levels of acrylamide.
If you are looking for top notch healthy fried recipes that will make your life easier and your dietary habits balanced, you should start using an air fryer. Yet, many of us would wonder what an air fryer is while the answer is very simple. An air fryer is an appliance that can substitute deep fryers, but without an excessive use of oil. You can cook your fries as well as delicious meals that will be as tasty as those of Deep Fryers. And it is known in general that air fryers are more used for making a snack. So, if you are still convinced that we can never talk about healthy fried food, it is high time you changed your mind and think it over because air Fryers were designed to cook only healthy fried food.
An Air fryer is a new kitchen appliance and an intelligent machine that uses heated air in order to cook your food. This new cooking invention heats in a matter of just one minute because of the circulation of hot air in a specific chamber that helps your food to be cooked perfectly as well as evenly. And while you may think that using an air fryer will ruin the flavor of your dishes, the contrary is true. Choosing to use an air fryer aims at cooking a wide range of nutritious meals without endangering your body or your health with the conventional ailments related to cholesterol, diabetes and most importantly, cancer. Once you try using an air fryer, you will surprised with the easy use of an Air Fryer and how you can enjoy the food you were afraid of eating before and you will find out that buying an air fryer is the best deal you have ever tried.
So, if you are excited to learn more about the benefits of air frying, this book will be very useful to you and to people who dont like the conventional frying methods. There are also, lots of benefits of using air fryers that you would want to know like the high ability to control the temperature and to prevent your food from burning. What are you waiting for? Have a look for yourself and feel free to discover the variety of air fryer benefits. You will learn everything related to air fryers in this book.
The following recipes will give you the number of portions each will make as well as nutritional information relating to fat, carbohydrate, and protein levels. The nutrition values will obviously vary according to the sizes and types of ingredients used and are only intended as a rough guide. They dont include the serving suggestions. The air fryer temperatures are given in degrees Celsius although some fryers will have a convert-to-Fahrenheit function if thats what youre more comfortable with.
These recipes are based on basket fryers rather than fryer/oven combinations, and assume the availability of a bowl, a tray and a baking tin. The amounts given are for a fryer of average capacity. Depending on the size of your fryer you may need to adapt the amounts in some of the recipes or cook in batches. The more you use your fryer the more you will get to know which cooking times and sizes of cooking batches are best.
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Chapter 1.
Air Fryer Basics
An air fryer is a modern-day kitchen appliance that is the direct counterpart of the old-style oven, frying pan, and multicooker. Although the device is not new and has been around for some years, it has gone viral. According to the market research firm NPD Group, approximately 40% of U.S. homes have one. With an air fryer, you use hot air instead of oil to cook your meals. An air fryer allows you to use up to 80% less fat. You can use an it to roast, bake, grill, and fry foods. An air fryer heats the air to a temperature of around 400F. The hot air constantly circulates through the pan and around the food at high speed. This way of cooking gives the food a crispy outer layer. This way, your dishes cook evenly on all sides with a crispy crust.
The air fryer offers low-fat options of food that would usually be cooked in a deep fryer. As a result, ordinarily unhealthy foods such as fried chicken, onion rings, and French fries, are cooked with no oil or up to 80% less fat content than conventional cooking methods. Cooking with an air fryer ensures that you get healthier cooked food. This method ensures that you get healthier foods while still enjoying the quality, texture, and crunchiness you desire.
By circulating hot air quickly and evenly around foods in the cooking chamber, the food is soft and moist inside and dry and crispy on the outside. It can be used for pretty much everything.
Rapid Air Technology is the technology used for cooking food inside the air fryer. This method cooks the food with hot air instead of oil. You can enjoy fried fish, chicken, beef, chips, pastries, and more. The cooking chamber of the air fryer heats the food efficiently. An exhaust fan placed above the food chamber provides the required airflow, which allows the hot air to circulate around the food constantly and cook it. The circulated hot air also cooks the food more evenly.
An air fryer is similar to a countertop convection oven, but with modifications. The air fryer has a fan that circularly blows hot air in the cooking chamber. Again, this ensures even cooking and a crisp crust. The food is placed in a perforated basket, which allows more exposure to hot moving air. Another big difference is that most air fryers today are small, which means there is less room inside, so the heat intensifies and less cooking time is needed.
Air Fryer Parts
Air fryers have three essential parts.
The air fryer base: The base is the air fryers main component.
The basket: The basket holds the food. Depending on the brand and model, it has round holes or a mesh base so air can circulate easily.
The basket base: This is the bottom part of the air fryer that holds the basket. This part catches crumbs and oil that fall through the baskets holes.
Control panel: The control panel is where you set the time and temperature to cook food.
An oven-style air fryer has the oven as the central unit. It looks like a convection oven with a cooking tray, racks, and basket.
What Can You Do with An Air Fryer?
You can use this device to cook deep-fried foods (chicken fingers, onion rings, and French fries). However, you can also cook foods that are usually cooked in a microwave or oven (such as pork loin, baked potatoes, pizza, pastries, or calzone).
You can use it to saut or grill foods (vegetables, fish, chicken, steak, pork chops, and others).
You can reheat food with this cooking device.
You can prepare ingredients with this appliance, such as cooking bacon for sandwiches, roasting peppers for pasta, or toasting nuts for a salad.
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