How to cook in an air grill and how to use it (video)

Lovers of deli­cious meat or fans of a healthy diet will need an air grill (see how to choose it). In addi­tion, it has a huge plus — you can cook sev­er­al dish­es at the same time, pro­vid­ed that the smells do not inter­rupt each oth­er. You will learn more about this kitchen unit below.

What can be cooked in an air fryer?

In an air grill, you can cook every­thing — from first cours­es to desserts. Stew, bake, dry veg­eta­bles — every­thing is with­in the pow­er of this device, as well as bake pies, bagels and piz­za, cook jam direct­ly in jars, dry fruits, greens and mush­rooms, dark­en food.

Of course, we can say with absolute cer­tain­ty that lovers of meat del­i­ca­cies will enjoy dish­es from it. Here you will get the most ten­der chick­en meat, bar­be­cue, cut­lets with a gold­en crust, smoked fish, baked meat in foil. And all this is cooked with a min­i­mum amount of oil, but keep in mind that the prod­ucts must be man­u­al­ly turned over to the oth­er side.

What utensils to use in the air fryer?

Many own­ers of this appli­ance choose dish­es based on microwave con­tain­ers, but in an air grill the tem­per­a­ture reach­es 280 ° C, so it is for­bid­den to use a con­tain­er with low heat resis­tance. Com­plete­ly refuse plas­tic and wood­en uten­sils.

An equal­ly impor­tant role in choos­ing dish­es is played by what dish you are going to cook:

• To bake veg­eta­bles with meat or cook soup, you will need ceram­ic pots.
• For fry­ing meat, glass con­tain­ers are select­ed.
• For bak­ing bak­ery prod­ucts, met­al bak­ing sheets or trays with a non-stick coat­ing or ordi­nary ones for a sim­ple oven are used.

So, hav­ing bought an air grill, you need to pur­chase uten­sils, adher­ing to three rec­om­men­da­tions:

1. Be sure to pay atten­tion to heat resis­tance and ther­mal con­duc­tiv­i­ty before buy­ing con­tain­ers. Uten­sils should be made of mate­ri­als that can with­stand high tem­per­a­tures. Alu­minum and heat-resis­tant glass have the high­est ther­mal con­duc­tiv­i­ty, there­fore, in such dish­es, food will cook much faster. But if you stew or bake foods in clay pots, then you will have to be patient, since it will take quite a lot of time to cook due to the low ther­mal con­duc­tiv­i­ty of the mate­r­i­al.
2. Of great impor­tance is the thick­ness of the walls of dish­es. If you want to get fried pieces with a gold­en crust, cook them in a thin-walled con­tain­er. More juicy dish­es will turn out in thick-walled dish­es, but they will also take more time to cook.
3. The con­tain­ers should not exceed 25 cm in diam­e­ter, oth­er­wise the heat flows inside the appli­ance will spread uneven­ly, which will not have the best effect on the readi­ness of the dish. It will be either under­cooked or over­cooked.

Cooking meat dishes in an air grill

To pre­pare cut­lets, baked meat, ribs, steaks or chops, you will need grills, bak­ing sheets, skew­ers and foil.

Kebab

The meat is first mar­i­nat­ed accord­ing to your favorite recipe. The main thing is to cut the meat into pieces so that they can be placed on skew­ers. As soon as the meat is mar­i­nat­ed, it is strung on skew­ers and placed in an elec­tri­cal appli­ance, where the tem­per­a­ture is set to 230 ° C and the fan is turned on at medi­um speed.

Cook­ing bar­be­cue in air grill is shown in the video:

cutlets

Juicy soft cut­lets with a crispy gold­en crust will turn out in an elec­tri­cal appli­ance. When bak­ing cut­lets, a tray is placed in the bowl of the appli­ance, on which excess fat from the cut­lets will drain.

The formed raw prod­ucts are laid out on a grate, pre­vi­ous­ly lubri­cat­ed with veg­etable oil, and placed in the cen­ter of the appli­ance. Set the timer for 30 min­utes and cook at 230°C.

Pork baked in foil

Hav­ing pre­pared a piece of meat (it is rubbed with salt and spices, sev­er­al cuts are made), it is wrapped in foil and baked in an air grill at 230 ° C. After 15 min­utes, change the tem­per­a­ture regime, reduc­ing the tem­per­a­ture to 170 ° C, and con­tin­ue to bake for anoth­er half hour.

The recipe for pork in the air grill is pre­sent­ed in the video:

How to cook chicken in an air fryer?

It is nec­es­sary to choose a whole chick­en car­cass weigh­ing 1300–1700 g, which is pre­pared as fol­lows:

1. To make the chick­en bake even­ly, make sev­er­al cuts along the breast.
2. While the appli­ance is warm­ing up, the chick­en is rubbed with salt, pep­per and spices. For this dish you will need a min­i­mum amount of sea­son­ings at your dis­cre­tion.
3. In the tray where the car­cass will be baked, you can add light beer to make the meat more ten­der and juicy.
4. The chick­en is placed breast side up on the mid­dle rack and roast­ed at 250°C with a high fan speed.
5. 10 min­utes before the end, reduce the fan speed to medi­um.

In total, the dish is cooked for about 35–45 min­utes. An indi­ca­tor of the readi­ness of the dish will be a clear liq­uid flow­ing out of the chick­en after being pierced with a sharp knife or a tooth­pick — if a pink­ish liq­uid flows out, then the car­cass is cooked for a few more min­utes. You don’t need to turn the chick­en.

Chick­en with a gold­en crust can be pre­pared accord­ing to the recipe from the fol­low­ing video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Znz-AdpTWM

In the air grill, you can also cook excel­lent wings accord­ing to the recipe from the video:

How to cook fish in an air fryer?

Fish in an air grill is fried on a wire rack, baked in foil or cooked in bat­ter.

Fish in foil

For cook­ing in foil, fish of not very fat­ty vari­eties is cho­sen. Fish fil­lets are mar­i­nat­ed or rubbed with spices, put in foil and cov­ered with an enve­lope. Place it on the top rack and bake at 200°C for about 20 min­utes.

In an air grill, you can bake red fish steaks with veg­eta­bles accord­ing to a sim­ple recipe from the video:

Fried fish

To pre­pare fried fish, it is cut into 5 cm slices and sprin­kled with spices. The upper grate is greased with veg­etable oil and pieces of fish are laid out on it. Set the timer to 200 ° C and fry for 20–30 min­utes.

Fish in batter

The bowl of the air grill is cov­ered with a piece of foil. The fish is dipped in bat­ter and laid out on the mid­dle grill. Cook for 25 min­utes at medi­um fan speed. First, bake for 15 min­utes at a tem­per­a­ture of 260 ° C, then con­tin­ue cook­ing at 235 ° C.

As men­tioned above, you can bake in an air grill. So, for exam­ple, you can cook a deli­cious fish pie accord­ing to the instruc­tions from the video:

How to cook potatoes in an air fryer?

Fans of fried pota­toes need not wor­ry about their health — they are cooked in an air grill with a min­i­mum amount of veg­etable oil, which favor­ably affects the lev­el of cho­les­terol in the blood. In addi­tion, there are var­i­ous deli­cious recipes:

• Rus­tic. Pota­toes are peeled and cut into slices. Spread in a deep con­tain­er, salt, pep­per and sprin­kle with gar­lic — mix every­thing well, leave for 5 min­utes. The grate is greased with veg­etable oil and the pota­toes are laid out on it. Cook for 25 min­utes at 250°C.
• Baked. New pota­toes are thor­ough­ly washed and cut into 2 or 4 parts. Soak it in saline for 15 min­utes. Lay the pota­toes on a wire rack, sprin­kle them with veg­etable oil and bake at 220 ° C for about 30 min­utes.
• Fried. The pota­toes are washed, peeled and cut into slices. Veg­etable oil, herbs, spices, salt are mixed in a deep con­tain­er and chopped pota­toes are added. Leave every­thing for 20 min­utes so that the pieces of veg­etable are mar­i­nat­ed. Then they are laid out on the low­er grill of the air grill and cooked for 35 min­utes at a tem­per­a­ture of 200 ° C and an aver­age fan speed.
• In “uni­form”. This is one of the fastest ways to pre­pare a side dish. The pota­toes are thor­ough­ly washed, sev­er­al punc­tures are made in each pota­to and laid out whole in a deep bowl. Sprin­kle it with spices, veg­etable oil and salt, leave for 30 min­utes. Then they are laid out on a wire rack and cooked at a high blow­ing speed and a tem­per­a­ture of 260 ° C.

French fries can be use­ful if cooked in an air grill accord­ing to this recipe:

1. Pota­toes are washed, peeled and cut into even bars, dried with a paper tow­el or cot­ton nap­kin.
2. In a deep con­tain­er, pota­toes are mixed with salt and spices, then veg­etable oil is added (3 table­spoons are enough for 1 kg of tubers) and mixed well again.
3. In the air grill, select the “Warm­ing up” func­tion and warm up the device for 6 min­utes.
4. Spread the pota­toes on a mesh bak­ing sheet and place on the mid­dle rack. Cook the dish for about 20 min­utes (time varies depend­ing on the thick­ness of the tuber sticks) at 235 ° C and medi­um fan speed.

As soon as the pota­toes are red­dened, the dish is ready.

In an air fry­er, pota­toes can be cooked with bacon, as shown in the video, which also looks at the capa­bil­i­ties of the appli­ance:

How to cook kupaty in air grill?

In addi­tion to the usu­al dish­es, it also pre­pares dish­es from dif­fer­ent cuisines of the world. For exam­ple, baths. This is a Geor­gian meat dish, which is pre­pared from minced meat of fat­ty vari­eties with the addi­tion of gar­lic and a large amount of spices — all­spice, pome­gran­ate seeds, bar­ber­ry berries, corian­der, cumin and thyme. It is stuffed into the shell from the intestines and formed in the form of sausages.

Raw sausages are first fried on a medi­um grill, pre-greased with veg­etable oil at a high fan speed and a tem­per­a­ture of 250 ° C. To pre­vent them from burst­ing, small punc­tures are made at the ends to release steam. Depend­ing on the degree of roast­ing, it will take 15–20 min­utes. As soon as the sausages are browned, they are trans­ferred to a pot, chopped gar­lic, toma­to paste, salt and spices to your taste are added there. And con­tin­ue to cook under the same con­di­tions for anoth­er 15 min­utes.

How deli­cious kupatas are fried in an air grill can be seen in the video:

air fryer vegetable recipe

There are many ways to cook a deli­cious veg­etable dish in an air fry­er. For exam­ple, lovers of egg­plant and zuc­chi­ni can choose the fol­low­ing recipe:

1. Wash the zuc­chi­ni and egg­plant and cut into rings 0.3 cm thick.
2. Pre­pare a spicy sauce — mix 3–4 tsp. olive oil and 1 tsp. bal­sam­ic vine­gar, squeeze one clove of gar­lic, add Ital­ian herbs, salt, pep­per and mix.
3. Put the chopped veg­eta­bles in a bowl and add the cher­ry toma­toes, pour over the sauce and mix.
4. Line the top rack of the air fry­er with foil and place half of the veg­eta­bles in a lay­er.
5. Close the air fry­er lid, set the tem­per­a­ture to 230 ° C and bake for 20 min­utes.
6. Open the lid of the appli­ance, turn the veg­eta­bles over, cook for anoth­er 10 min­utes and remove.
7. Cook the sec­ond part of the veg­eta­bles in the same way.

Cooked veg­eta­bles can be served with chopped herbs.

Some Tips

To make cook­ing in an air grill a plea­sure, you must fol­low a few rules:

• Before you start cook­ing, the appli­ance must be warmed up.
• Prod­ucts are laid out on grates, and not thrown out in a heap to the bot­tom.
• Observe safe­ty pre­cau­tions — do not touch the glass con­tain­er of a work­ing device to avoid burns.
• When get­ting ready meals, do not look inside the air grill, oth­er­wise you can burn your eyes with steam.

Video: How to choose and use an air grill?

Ele­na Maly­she­va and her col­leagues will help you choose an air grill, and also tell you how to use the appli­ance cor­rect­ly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adQ_tMCFz6o

The con­vec­tion oven, when used cor­rect­ly and fol­low­ing the tem­per­a­ture regime and recipes, will help you pre­pare hun­dreds of healthy dish­es, because they are pre­pared with lit­tle or no oil. And steamed veg­eta­bles retain more vit­a­mins. If you adhere to a healthy and prop­er diet, then this elec­tri­cal appli­ance is a must for you.