Air Fryer Fried Chicken. Buttermilk air fryer fried chicken method was the clear winner! It had a nice and tender meat on the inside while the outside was crispy and flavorful. Visually, this was the closest one to a deep fried version.
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Step-by-step overview of how to make southern fried chicken in an air fryer.
You can cook Air Fryer Fried Chicken using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Air Fryer Fried Chicken
- It's 2 of chicken thighs.
- It's of Dry Mix.
- You need 1 cup of flour.
- Prepare 1 tsp of salt.
- It's 1 tsp of ground black pepper.
- You need 1 tsp of garlic powder.
- You need 1 tsp of ground red pepper (optional).
- It's of Wet Mix.
- Prepare 1 of egg.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of salt.
- Prepare 1 Tbl of hot sauce.
This Air Fryer Chicken recipe has had rave reviews from readers for years upon years now- and for good reason! This fried chicken uses no oil and has a crispy, delicious skin over tender chicken meat that your whole family will love! People were making fried chicken before air fryers were invented! I prefer to pan-fry my fried chicken in a cast iron skillet if I'm not using an air fryer.
Air Fryer Fried Chicken instructions
- Mix wet mix in a bowl.
- Mix all dry mix in a bowl.
- Coat each thigh in dry mix, cost in wet mix, coat again in dry mix..
- Place in air fryer..
- My thighs were largish, so i cooked for 12 minutes, turned over, cooked 12 more minutes until 180F internal.
- These are extra crispy, if you like it that way. But the meat was still moist and cooked completely..
Air fryer fried chicken is lighter, faster, and much less messy than deep-fried chicken. Coat the air fryer racks with cooking spray. Remove the chicken from the buttermilk, allowing any excess to drip off. Dredge in the flour mixture, shaking any excess off. This Air Fryer Fried Chicken is juicy inside and crispy on the outside.