Whether you’re excited about your new air fryer or eager to use yours again, it’s well known that these popular kitchen gadgets are fantastic for making your favourite meals, snacks, and baked goods while saving time, energy, and cooking oil.
Air Fryer Vegan Recipes
Air fryers also simplify following a vegan diet, providing a reliable method for perfectly cooking staples like tofu, cauliflower, and potatoes. Below, we’ve gathered 6 air fryer vegan recipes that show plant-based cooking can be simple and exciting.
Easy Sweet Potato
Sweet potatoes can be enjoyed in many forms: roasted, added to salads, cut into wedges, made into muffins, or mashed. The air fryer is an excellent tool for cooking sweet potatoes quickly while enhancing their flavour. In just 15 minutes, you can have perfectly roasted sweet potato cubes with minimal effort.
- Peel the sweet potatoes with a vegetable peeler, and then use a sharp knife to cut them into small cubes.
- Place the sweet potato cubes in a bowl and toss them with olive oil, salt, pepper, paprika, and garlic powder.
- After tossing, place the cubes in the air fryer basket, and don’t worry if they are overlapping.
- Air fry at 400°F (200°C) for 13 to 15 minutes, and keep shaking the basket every three to four minutes for even cooking.
- Once done, serve it as it is or with dipping sauces such as vegan sour cream, avocado dip, tahini sauce, freshly squeezed lemon juice, or fresh parsley.
Tofu Nuggets
These “vegan chicken” tofu nuggets are ideal snacks for any house party. They have a meaty texture, are made from whole-food plant-based ingredients, and are perfect for dipping.
- Drain the tofu, wrap it in a tea towel, and keep it on a plate. After that try to pat out any additional moisture.
- Manually tear the tofu into irregular pieces and keep aside.
- Take a bowl and mix tapioca, sea salt, black pepper, garlic powder, and onion powder. Toss the tofu pieces in the mixed spices to coat evenly.
- To make the batter, take another small bowl and whisk together the plant milk, whole wheat flour, and sweet paprika until the mixture is smooth and creamy.
- In another bowl, combine the panko bread crumbs and nutritional yeast.
- Dip the nuggets into the batter completely, and then toss them in the bread crumb mixture.
- Shake off any excess and place the nuggets on a parchment-lined air fryer tray, ensuring they don’t touch each other. Air fries the tofu nuggets at 375°F for 15 minutes until they are golden and crispy, flip them in between to get evenly cooked. Serve hot with your preferred dipping sauces.
Air Fryer Mushrooms
This simple and fast 15-minute air fryer mushroom recipe produces wonderfully juicy and flavourful roasted mushrooms. You can add them into grain bowls, salads, or pasta dishes to enhance their taste and nutritional value. Try this Air Fryer Vegan Recipes.
- Clean the mushrooms by wiping off any dirt with a paper towel. For heavily soiled mushrooms, rinse them under running water.
- Cut the larger mushrooms into halves or quarters, keep the smaller ones as whole, and place them in a mixing bowl.
- Season the mushrooms with olive oil, salt, and black pepper, and mix well.
- Preheat the air fryer to 400°F (200°C) for 3 minutes.
- Place the seasoned mushrooms in the air fryer basket and cook for approximately 15 minutes, or until they are browned. Keep shaking the air fryer basket every 5 minutes for even cooking.
- Test one mushroom to ensure it’s cooked according to your taste.
Chickpea Broccoli Nuggets
These bite-sized snacks are low in fat but still crispy and tasty, making them feel like a treat, and can be cooked in the air fryer in just 18 minutes.
- Boil the chickpeas in salted water, and keep aside the water.
- Next mince the garlic, finely chop the onion, and cut the broccoli into small florets.
- Blanch the broccoli in boiling salted water for 4 minutes, and then drain well.
- In a grinder, add the chickpeas, broccoli, onion, garlic, and spices (nutritional yeast, salt, pepper, smoked paprika). Grind for some time, then add the oat flour and grind again. Make sure to keep some texture of the mixture, should not be completely smooth.
- Shape the mixture like nuggets. Dip each nugget first in the reserved chickpea liquid, then in breadcrumbs to coat.
- Spray the air fryer basket with cooking spray and arrange the nuggets in a single layer with space between them. Air fry at 380°F/190°C for 18 minutes.
Air Fryer Cauliflower Wings
If you’re looking for a simple air fryer vegan recipes then you must try these cauliflower wings.
- Cut the cauliflower into florets and rinse them thoroughly.
- Take a bowl and prepare your batter by mixing chickpea flour, dairy free milk, hot sauce, salt, smoked paprika, onion powder, garlic powder and dairy free butter. Whisk it thoroughly to make it lump free.
- Toss the cauliflower florets into the batter nicely to coat it evenly.
- Spray cooking oil at the bottom of the air fryer basket and place the cauliflower in it. Make sure to keep space between the cauliflowers.
- Cook at 370°F/188°C for 15 minutes.
- Before serving the cauliflower brush it with hot sauce or ketchup or BBQ sauce.
Air Fryer Potato Chips
Potato Chips are an all time favourite snack for everyone, but why buy it from a store when you can make it at home within 15 minutes.
- First thinly slice the potatoes. Use a mandoline to get perfect slices.
- Soak the potato slices in a bowl of cold water for about 20 minutes.
- Drain the water and dry the potato slices with a kitchen towel.
- Take a bowl and mix oil and seasoning according to your taste. Toss the potato slices into the mixture of oil and seasoning.
- Place the seasoned potato slices into the air fryer basket and air fry the slices for 8-15 minutes at 350°F/175°C until golden brown and crispy.
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We hope these air fryer vegan recipes will satisfy your heart with taste and with nutritional value as well.
