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Introduction
Congratulations, you have made a great decision in purchasing this Air Fryer cookbook! Included are 200 delicious Air Fryer recipes that everyone is sure to love! In the following pages you will also discover all the different ways to make tasty foods in your Air Fryer. Not only will these foods be delicious, but they will contain fewer calories and be healthier for you! The recipes are easy to make and easy to follow. You will also absolutely love how quick and effortless it is to cook with an Air fryer. You will find that the recipes in this book taste fresh, crispy and delicious!
Air Fryers enable you to create incredible meals by frying with air. These appliances allow you to cook normally deep fried foods with 80% less oil while also making the food healthier to eat. It uses super-heated air to cook the food and it has a fan that distributes the air much like a convection oven.
Not only can you make foods you would normally deep fry, but you can make other recipes in less time that it takes in your oven. Make roast beef, ham, lamb chops, hamburgers, scrambled eggs, quiche, baked apples, cakes, pies and cookies. With a few accessories you can make just about anything you can make in your oven in a fraction of the time. Fried chicken and other favorites come out crisp and moist and you wont need a napkin to wipe the grease off your fingers.
Your Air Fryer will help you to avoid grease and still be able to eat the foods you love like French fries, country fried steak and all sorts of great fish dishes. Not only that, but you can make other recipes like roast beef, rack of lamb, pulled pork, lobster tails and many more main dish entrees. When you are done with those, make delicious appetizers like stuffed mushrooms, potato skins and onion rings. I have also included some sweet treats like chocolate cake, apple pie, cookies and more all made in the Air Fryer.
This book does not stop there. Not many frozen foods come with directions on how to cook them in an air fryer. I have included easy directions to follow for cooking all sorts of your favorite frozen foods. You will find that your frozen food comes out with less grease, crispy and delicious. Make frozen chicken nuggets, poppers, pizza rolls, hamburgers, chicken breasts and more in a fraction of the time it normally takes to make them other ways.
With an air fryer it takes less time to cook and you can cook just about anything! Your meals will have less calories and less cholesterol than traditional recipes. Cooking with an Air Fryer is a win win situation and this book will tell you how to create delicious meals quickly and easily. Included are breakfast, lunch and dinner recipes. There are also delicious appetizers, snacks, side dishes and sweet desert recipes.
Keep on reading to learn everything you need to know about using an Air Fryer to create delicious meals with less grease and more flavor!
Chapter 1: All You Need To Know About The Air Fryer
The technology used in air fryers is called rapid air Technology and it causes the heat to be pushed by a rapidly turning fan. Ovens, unless they are convection ovens, do not have fans that constantly circulate the heat. Air fryers have a removable basket in which the food sits and the hot air circulates all around to cook the food.
One of the most popular things to make in an air fryer is French fries. These tasty treats are normally submerged in a vat full of oil and are dep fried at a high heat. The potatoes soak up quite a bit of the oil and retain it and it is consumed. We all know that oil is not necessarily good for the body. Some oils cause plaque to form in our blood vessels and encumber our bodies with extra fat. If you reduce the amount of oil and the food tastes great and sometimes better, how can you go wrong? I use my air fryer almost every week to make sweet potato fries. I just peel the potato, chop it into thick strips, toss them in 1 tablespoon olive oil and some seasoning and fry them up in the air fryer. They come out crisp on the outside and tender inside and are better than any fries made in hot oil and it only takes about 10 minutes to make and cook them.
What Can You Cook In An Air Fryer?
You can cook anything you would normally deep fry, but that isnt all. Fries, chicken nuggets, fried chicken, fried fish and all those other unhealthy foods cook up great in an air fryer and are safer to eat. But that is not all you can do in an air fryer. I make scrambled eggs for breakfast or French Toast. I can cook up empanadas or Chinese dumplings for my lunch. It isnt hard to make meatloaf, pork chops, salmon, country fried steak or BBQ chicken in the air fryer. As long as the dish isnt liquid, like soup or stew, it is a possibility in an air fryer. It is also possible to make cake, hand pies and other desserts in the air fryer.
The basket of the air fryer has little slits in it so that the air can flow through. Some things I make in my air fryer are not suitable to put in that basket because it would leak all over. To remedy that, I use a small 6 to 4-inch metal cake pan, ceramic ramekins or small metal bowl with a flat bottom to put things in too cook, like my scrambled eggs. Some air fryers even come with an accessory like this to put in the basket. This makes so many more possibilities when it comes to items you can make in an air fryer.
Is Food Really Healthier When Made In An Air Fryer?
The fan in the air fryer not only circulates hot air around the food, but it also circulates out droplets of oil and creates a chemical reaction called The Mallard Effect. This effect causes the food to turn brown and crispy and adds some flavor to the food. Air fried foods contain much less fat, but they taste is about the same or better. Fried chicken made in an air fryer contains about the same amount of fat as a roasted or baked chicken. Not only do foods contain less fat, they also have fewer calories. When food is fried a compound is created on the food that we consume. This substance is acrylamide and it is thought to be a carcinogen (causes cancer). A study was performed and it was found that the acrylamide content was reduced by 90% when food was cooked in an air fryer. I have an issue with fried foods. I eat them and that results in terrible heart burn and stomachs. I can eat fries and other fried foods in the air fryer with no effect. I can say with certainty because of my own weight loss that foods made in an air fryer are healthier for me.
Benefits
The pros vastly outweigh the cons of having an air fryer, in my opinion. I use mine all the time and I have noticed a reduction in my gas bill (I have a gas stove) and no noticeable increase in my electric bill. That is a definite plus for me.