Air fryer boiled eggs
First, preheat your air fryer.
Next, add your eggs to the air fryer basket or rack. As best you can, leave space between each egg. It's normal if they roll a bit, but this allows the air to circulate properly. Place the basket back into the air fryer and cook.
⏱️ Cook Times
Soft Boiled Eggs: 9-10 minutes
Jammy Eggs: 11-13 minutes
Hard Boiled Eggs: 14-15 minutes
Last, remove the eggs and set them immediately into an ice bath. What’s an ice bath? An ice bath is just a bowl filled with ice and cold water. Submerging the eggs in the ice cold water stops the cooking process quickly, that way you have full control over the doneness of your eggs.
Lastly, when the eggs are cool but not yet chilled, remove them, crack the shells and peel. I recommend starting at the bottom/fattest part of the egg, because that’s usually where the air bubble forms.
💡 Tips - Leave some space: Because the air fryer uses convection to cook, the air needs to circulate in order to cook evenly. As best you can, leave a little space between each egg and don’t overfill the air fryer. My air fryer basket has grooves that the eggs sit in nicely to keep them from rolling around.
Air fryer spicy pork belly
Ingredients:
3 tbsp light soy sauce
1½ tbsp cider or wine vinegar
1 tbsp vegetable oil
2 garlic cloves, crushed or finely grated
½ tsp dried chilli flakes
2 tsp Chinese five-spice powder
2 tsp runny honey or sugar
½ tsp salt
500g pork belly slices
freshly cooked rice and steamed greens, to serve
Method:
Mix together the soy sauce, vinegar, oil, garlic, chilli flakes, Chinese five-spice, sugar and salt together in a large shallow dish. Add the pork slices and leave to marinate at room temperature for 10–15 minutes.
Preheat the air fryer to 180⁰C.
Arrange the pork slices in the air fryer basket, ideally in a single layer.
Air-fry for 25–30 minutes, turning halfway through and brushing with any remaining marinade, until the pork is well browned and completely cooked through.
Serve the pork with the rice and steamed greens.
💡 Recipe Tips
To make a little extra sauce to drizzle over the cooked pork, stir together 1 tablespoon soy sauce, ½ tablespoon vinegar and 1 tablespoon water.
If you don't have an air fryer you can cook this in an oven preheated to 200⁰C/180⁰C Fan/Gas 6 for 45–55 minutes, basting and turning every 15 minutes.
Air fryer pizza
These pizzas are super quick to put together, whether you make our speedy no-prove dough or use a naan or flatbread as a base. Ideal as a WFH lunch or quick dinner on busy weeknights.
Makes 4 pizzas
Ingredients:
400g tin pizza sauce
300g self-raising flour, plus extra for dusting
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
300g plain yoghurt
4 sprays olive oil spray
Toppings of your choice, such as olives, sliced red onion, artichoke or ham (optional)
200g firm mozzarella cheese, grated
rocket leaves, to serve (optional)
Method:
Mix together the flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl. Add the yoghurt and mix with a knife or your hands to form a soft dough. Divide into four pieces.
Roll each piece out on a well-floured surface to a circle that fits in the air fryer (this will be around 20cm in diameter for a 5.5 litre single basket air fryer).
Preheat the air fryer to 205⁰C. Lay one pizza base on the rack of the air fryer and spray with olive oil spray once, then prick with a fork a few times. Cook for 3 minutes. Remove, flip over and return to the air-fryer for another 2 minutes.
Take base out the basket, place on a wooden board and spread tomato paste over the pizza.
Add your choice of toppings, followed by a quarter of the mozzarella.
Any toppings that need to cook (such as onion slices) should go on top of the cheese so that they meet the heat first.
Cook for 4 minutes until the cheese is bubbling and the base is crispy. Remove and repeat with the remaining pizzas. Top each pizza with rocket leaves (if using) and serve.
💡 Recipe Tips
Use naan breads or flatbreads as bases instead of making the pizza dough. Just ignore the steps on making and cooking the base and proceed with the pizza topping.
Air fryer yoghurt custard toast
As seen on TikTok, this yoghurt custard toast with raspberries is super quick to make in an air fryer. It's also absolutely delicious!
Serves 2
Ingredients:
2 slices brioche
1 egg
3 tbsp plain yoghurt
3 tsp runny honey or maple syrup
75g fresh or frozen raspberries or other soft fruit
Method:
1Preheat the air fryer to 175⁰C. Using the back of a spoon, flatten down the centre of the brioche slices to leave a border around the edge.
Beat together the egg, yoghurt and 2 teaspoons honey in a small bowl. Spoon the custard into the wells in the brioche and then arrange the fruit on top.
Air-fry for 7–8 minutes until the custard has set and the bread is crisp. Drizzle over the remaining honey and serve warm.
💡 Recipe Tips
If your air fryer has a deep drawer, lay the bread on a piece of baking paper to make lifting the toast in and out easier.
If you don't have an air fryer you can cook these yoghurt custard toasts in the oven preheated to 200⁰C/180⁰C Fan/Gas 6 for 15 minutes.
Air fryer apple, pear and raspberry crumble
Versatile, quick and easy, crumble is always popular. Here’s how to make it in the air fryer. This version uses apples, pears and raspberries, but use whatever fruit is in season.
Ingredients:
3 Bramley apples, peeled, cored and roughly chopped
2 ripe pears, peeled, cored and sliced
1 tbsp brown sugar
1 orange, grated zest and juice
150g fresh raspberries
For the topping
40g rolled oats
60g plain flour
60g ground almonds
60g butter, cubed
pinch sea salt
40g soft brown sugar
Method:
Preheat the air fryer to 180⁰C.
Put the apples, pears, bay leaves, sugar, orange zest and juice into a heatproof dish that fits into your air fryer, about 18cm/7in in diameter. Mix together, then air-fry for 15 minutes, stirring a couple of times during cooking.
Stir through the raspberries.
To make the topping, put the oats, flour, ground almonds and butter into a bowl with a pinch of sea salt and rub together to incorporate the butter, stir through the sugar, then sprinkle this mixture over the fruit.
Cook in the air fryer for 10 minutes. Serve with a dollop of crème fraîche, ice cream or custard.
💡 Recipe Tips
The filling of a crumble I like to be quite tart as the topping is very sweet, but if you have a sweet tooth, you can add a little more sugar to the fruit mix.
Both the fruit filling and the topping can be made in advance and frozen.
