Urvashi Pitre - Air Fryer Revolution: 100 Crispy, Healthy, Fast & Fresh Recipes

Copyright 2019 by Blue Glass Jar Inc.

Photography 2019 by Ghazalle Badiozamani

Food styling by Monica Pierini

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To my father, Brigadier Pitre, who left us this year. Thank you for everything you did for me, and for your constant, unwavering love, even when I was difficult to love.

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I am so grateful that my husband Roger and my son Alex support me through my crazy adventures. Its not easy to manage a full-time job, a blog, cookbooks, videos, and culinary tours. It would be impossible without your help.

Thanks to John Kasinger and Diane Mastel for helping me test and finesse the recipes and for your honest feedback. Thanks also for coming willingly to Sunday lunches where we sometimes had nothing but four desserts to taste test!

Ms. Jen Neeferwhat a great friend you have been to me over the last crazy year of blogging and cookbooking! Your eagle eye in helping me edit this book will benefits thousands of others.

Thanks to Lisa Kingsley for your excellent thought partnership and help as I worked through this book.

My agent Stacey Glick, thank you so much for your continuing supportand for listening to my 100 ideas in 50 days type of brainstorming.

My editor, Justin Schwartz, whose lightning-fast responses to emails fit very well with my own work style, and whose honest feedback makes me work harder and do better.

Ghazalle Badiozamani and her team of accomplished stylists and helpers make my food look prettynot just tasty. Thank you to Monica Pierini, Leila Clifford, Jenna Tedesco, and Bridget Kenny for your great work. I always look forward to our photo shoots, so that I can spend some time with you.

Thanks also to the whole army at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt that helped, without my even realizing it, to make this book a reality.

And of course, to my fans, followers, and readers who continue to support, suggest, encourage, and make me laugh daily. I hope you enjoy this book as much as you seem to enjoy the others.

So you bought yourself that air fryer youve been craving. Youve made the obvious things like French fries and breaded foods, and every convenience food you thought would work in the air fryer.

Now what?

Well, now youre about to learn that your air fryer is good for more than just breaded and packaged foods. Youre about to see how you can start with fresh ingredients and make delicious, healthy dishes with very little work.

Ive tried to create dishes that mostly require about ten minutes of prep, a little time to marinate, and just ten to twenty minutes of actual cook time, most of which is unsupervised. Cakes and frittatas are an exception in that they require longer to cook, but the majority of the main dishes come together with very little effort.

Some of you may look at a few of the ingredients and spices and wonder if you really want to get into cooking Indian, Korean, or Brazilian food at home. Heres what I can tell you: First, yes, you do indeed want to make these simple, flavorful, authentic recipes at home. You can do this. If you can measure, slice, chop, blend, and stir, you can make these recipes. Second, with an air fryer, as with much of cooking, success is all about the spices, marinades, and sauces you use. There are only so many ways you can air fry plain grilled chicken before you tire of it. After that, your air fryer gets less and less of your attention, and soon youve moved on to the next appliance.

Now, Im all about the next appliance (#GadgetGeek), but if you follow my advice, youll find your air fryer can be an endless source of varied tastes, a key to using food to open the doors of multiple cultures, and a great way to introduce you and your loved ones to an explosion of flavors.

When I call for unusual ingredients, I try to use each in more than one recipe so you have a few different ways to use them. So dont be afraid to buy a few ingredients that seem new and different and give them a whirl. (If you can buy them in smaller quantities, like in the bulk spices section of your grocery store, thats perfect.)

I hope you enjoy each of the well-tested recipes in this book. But most important, I hope this book equips you with the know-how to make your own tweaks and, ultimately, as you get more comfortable with your air fryer, to feel confident making your own air fryer recipes to enjoy and share.

In fact, my TwoSleevers International Instant Pot, Air Fryer & More Recipes group on Facebook (facebook.com/groups/twosleevers) and my blog (twosleevers.com) are great places for you to come share your food photos, your questions, and your recipe creations. I hope to see you there!

All the recipes in this book are easy enough that novice cooks can make them, but are so flavorful that even experienced cooks will be proud to serve them. If you can chop, mix, and stir, you can make the recipes in this book.

I tried to include various cuts of meat (chicken thighs, Cornish game hens, flank steak, meatballs, scallops, shrimp, etc.) so you would have an idea of prep and cooking times for a variety of things. But I also provide a lot of spice and sauce recipes (e.g., ras al hanout, harissa, zhoug, chermoula, etc.). I want to encourage you to mix and match the various meats and vegetables with the different spices and sauces. Once you start doing that, you will find that this cookbook contains a lot more than 100 recipes, and that you will be serving up a constantly rotating series of delightful meals. Definitely check out my first air fryer book (