Basic Air Fryer Chicken Breasts

Curious as to how to make chicken breasts in your air fryer? Here is my basic air fryer chicken breasts recipe that takes under 15 minutes to make!

What Is An Air Fryer?

An air fryer is a handy appliance that mimics the results of deep frying with nothing more than hot air and little to no oil. Instead of completely submerging the food in oil, air-frying takes just a tablespoon of oil to achieve a similar taste and texture to deep-fried foods. In addition, the air fryer also cooks oven baked things at a faster rate, for example, these chicken breasts only took 11 minutes! I use the Philips Turbostar Digital Airfryer. 

What You’ll Need To Make This Basic Air Fryer Chicken Breast

• chicken breasts
• olive oil
• salt
• garlic powder
• paprika

Other things you can add to change up this recipe:

• oregano
• chili flakes
• breading
• cajun seasoning
• 5 spice
• etc

How To Cook Chicken Breast in the Air Fryer

• Rub your olive oil onto the chicken breasts then coat them with a mix of salt, garlic powder, and paprika.
• Place into your air fryer, making sure there is some space between them.
• Set the air fryer to 400F and let it cook for 7 minutes before flipping the chicken and cooking for another 4 minutes.

Note: cooking time will be less if you use thin chicken breasts. Also, due to the way the air fryer cooks the cook, you technically do not have to flip it, but I like to do it so I can check up on the chicken!

Some ideas to what to use the air fryer chicken breasts for

While this air fryer chicken breast is perfect as a meal prep if you like to do batch ingredient cooking, if you’re not eating the chicken breasts as is, here are some ideas of what to use the quickly air fryer chicken breasts for!

• in a salad or a wrap
• tacos
• chicken sandwich
• stir fry
• nachos
• in soup

Basic Air Fryer Chicken Breasts

Curious as to how to make chicken breasts in your air fryer? Here is my basic air fryer chicken breasts recipe that takes under 15 minutes to make!

5 from 4 votes

Print Rate

Prep Time: 4 mins

Cook Time: 11 mins

Total Time: 15 mins

Servings: 2 chicken breasts

Ingredients

• 2 chicken breasts
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 tsp garlic powder
• 1 tsp paprika

Instructions

• Rub your olive oil onto the chicken breasts then coat them with a mix of salt, garlic powder, and paprika.
• Place into your air fryer, making sure there is some space between them.
• Set the air fryer to 400F and let it cook for 7 minutes before flipping the chicken and cooking for another 4 minutes.

Notes

This is a simple air fryer chicken breast recipe with no breading. If you choose to bread it, you may have to adjust the cook time.

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Nutrition Per Serving

Serving: 2chicken breasts | Calories: 327kcal | Carbohydrates: 1g | Protein: 48g | Fat: 13g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 144mg | Sodium: 283mg | Potassium: 880mg | Vitamin A: 635IU | Vitamin C: 2.7mg | Calcium: 11mg | Iron: 1.1mg

Author: Carmy

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: Healthy

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