How to Air Fry Chicken Breast Fillets

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How to Air Fry Chicken Breast Fillets

Follow these simple instructions for How to Air Fry Chicken Breast Fillets and you'll have beautifully moist and juicy chicken in no time. Use as a base recipe and add your favourite seasonings/sauces or use the simply roasted chicken for sandwiches, salads or any other dish your heat desires.

5 from 4 votes

Prep Time: 3

Cook Time: 25

Total Time: 28

Servings

Author Chloe

Equipment

Ingredients

2 Chicken Breast - around 250g/9oz each
2 tsp Vegetable Oil - see notes
1 tsp Seasoning - see notes

Instructions

If your air fryer requires pre-heating, start this setting now.
Thoroughly dry 2 Chicken Breasts.
Use scissors or a sharp knife to trim off any remaining bits of gristle, bone or sinew that you don't want to be cooking. Little bits of fat are fine - that's just flavour!
Drizzle over 2 tsp Oil and 1 tsp Seasoning and toss to thoroughly coat the chicken breast fillets.
Place the breasts into the air fryer basket top (smooth) side down. Leave a little space between each so the air can circulate.
Air fry for 15 minutes at 200c/390f.
If you have smaller chicken breasts than the 250g/9oz ones I've used, you will need to reduce the cooking time by up to 5 minutes.
Use tongs to turn the chicken right side up.
Air fry for a further 10 minutes at 200c/390f.
Again, if you are cooking significantly smaller breast fillets, you may reduce this cooking time by up to 5 minutes.
Check the chicken is cooked through, you can see this by making a cut and checking that the meat is white in the centre of the thickest part.
Do not panic and overcook the chicken - this is how you end up with dry chicken which isn't necessary at all.
Allow to rest for at least 3 to 4 minutes before tucking in. Spoon over juices that have collected in the bottom of the air fryer for extra flavour.

Notes

Oil - Choose your oil to match your flavouring. For example use garlic, salt and rosemary with olive oil or for a more neutral flavour, sea salt and black pepper with vegetable oil.
Seasoning - Choose any seasoning mix, spices or dried/fresh herbs. Make sure that salt is included in the mix. You can also add a little citrus juice.
I used vegetable oil with a 50/50 mix of garlic salt and paprika.
The air fryer version of this recipe is tested in a Cosori Lite (‎CAF-LI401S) with a 3.8 litre capacity. The square(ish) shaped basket is 21cm x 21cm and 24cm on the diagonal.
Not all models advise preheating is required. Please follow the recommended instructions for your model. Mine has a specific preheat setting which is 4 minutes at 205c.
For this recipe, I can just fit two 500g/9oz chicken breasts in the basket at a time. This gives plenty of room to allow air to circulate. I could feasibly fit a third fillet in but the air flow would be reduced initially and the cooking time may need increasing slightly.
As all air fryer models are a little different, you may find that you can fit more or less in at a time. Some models include stacking shelves which will increase capacity.
Required cooking times and temperatures can also vary between models and brands. If you know that your air fryer runs a little hotter than most recipes suggest, use a lower temperature. And vice versa. Equally if you find that food cooks more quickly in your machine than instructions usually state, reduce the cooking time (or check it earlier) and vice versa.

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