All Issues Air Fryer • Easy Nourished Dwelling
On this episode of Easy Shifts: Conversations to Gasoline Your Physique, Thoughts and Soul, Martha and Peter talk about the flexibility and comfort of air fryers, share their experiences with meal planning, and discover numerous cooking strategies. They emphasize the significance of flexibility in meal preparation and encourage listeners to experiment with air fryer recipes, highlighting the benefit of cooking greens and proteins. The dialog additionally touches on the advantages of element cooking and learn how to make meal prep much less nerve-racking.
Key Takeaways
- Air fryers are versatile and can be utilized for numerous cooking strategies.
- Meal planning will be versatile and doesn’t need to be inflexible.
- Element cooking permits for fast meal meeting with prepped elements.
- Experimenting with air fryer recipes can result in scrumptious meals.
- Utilizing an air fryer can scale back cooking time and cleanup.
- It’s helpful to have a wide range of elements available for meal prep.
- Roasting greens within the air fryer can improve their taste.
- Don’t be afraid to test in your meals whereas cooking within the air fryer.
- Leftovers will be simply reheated within the air fryer with out shedding crispiness.
- Cooking within the air fryer is usually a enjoyable and inventive course of.
All Issues Air Fryer Podcast
Video Transcript
Martha McKinnon (00:00)
Hello, welcome to Easy Shifts: Conversations to Gasoline the Physique, Thoughts and Soul. I’m Martha McKinnon from the weblog Easy Nourished Dwelling and with me is Peter, my associate and my brother.
Peter Morrison (00:14)
Hiya, how are you?
Martha McKinnon (00:16)
I’m good, the way you doing?
Peter Morrison (00:18)
Good, thanks.
Martha McKinnon (00:22)
So right this moment we’re going to speak about all issues air fryer. Again after we determined to launch this podcast, we reached out to our readers and solicited concepts and questions for matters. And air fryer got here up a number of occasions, individuals eager to find out about learn how to use the air fryer, in search of air fryer recipes. We’ve each grow to be followers of the air fryer, so I assumed it will be enjoyable for us to share our expertise, to share how we’re utilizing our air fryers, what we’ve realized about them. However earlier than we dive in, what’s going properly in your world? What are you cheerful about?
Peter Morrison (01:00)
I’m comfortable to report that we’re now on podcast quantity 35, which is sweet, good for us. And I’ve been, I’m probably not a meal planner per se, however I’ve at all times struggled with dinner. Dinner’s at all times been like a problem for me as a result of I are inclined to work proper up until time for dinner after which probably not have a plan essentially. So I’ve been making an attempt to do extra like use extra your concept of element meal prepping and meal planning, simply to have numerous elements on the prepared in order that when time for dinner rolls round and also you’re able to eat, you may simply form of decide and select and pull a meal collectively comparatively rapidly and painlessly, relying on what I really feel like having – which has at all times been one in all my private points with meal planning is I simply don’t at all times know what I’m gonna really feel like at any given meal on any given day. So simply form of bizarre that method.
Martha McKinnon (02:33)
I don’t suppose you’re bizarre. I believe lots of people most likely share that. Don’t rely your self as bizarre. Lots of people say like, how can I presumably know and plan what I’m going to need? You recognize, as a result of there’s so many variables. What’s the climate going to be like? What did I’ve? Possibly I had lunch out or yeah, so plans shift. I believe a versatile strategy is essential so that you don’t get locked in.
Peter Morrison (02:58)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Martha McKinnon (03:02)
So how is that this working for you, this complete element strategy the place you will have a number of issues able to go? Is it serving to?
Peter Morrison (03:08)
It’s going, it’s good. It nonetheless takes a little bit work and preparation, , as a result of it’s good to have your quinoa or rice or pasta form of cooked so that you just don’t have to fret about, , making that at time for dinner.
However what I actually like is, , purchase a number of greens after I grocery store and possibly have some hen breasts or hen tenders, possibly cook dinner them forward or purchase a rotisserie hen or whatnot and have a, we’re not large beef eaters, so hen, fish, shrimp.
Type of have that able to go. After which it’s only a matter of, do you wish to have inexperienced beans or do you wish to have broccoli or do you wish to have pesto? Would you like have purple sauce? Do you wish to have like a Asiany form of sesame or hold it easy, put it on a salad? I imply, it’s only a matter of it’s a lot simpler to tug that collectively within the second after I can alter it based mostly on what I really feel like. So it’s going good in that regard, but it surely’s nonetheless work, simply not as a lot work for me.
Martha McKinnon (04:38)
Effectively, good I’m comfortable that that’s working as a result of I discovered it to be very helpful to simply spend a little bit time on Sunday or all through the week, , cooking, prepping forward. I like roasted greens, so a few trays of roasted greens. And final week, I did what we love is the onions that mother used to make it, the onions and peppers and potatoes and chunks of Italian sausage all roasted collectively. So I made a few large trays of that. And so we ended up consuming it twice. After which I used leftovers to make a soup. And I added kale and broth and turned the leftovers right into a soup. And it’s made dinner a lot simpler.
I intend to make use of the little bit that’s left and make a frittata. So I’ll chop it up a little bit extra finely, heat it, add some egg and cheese and it’s mainly given us nearly an entire week of meals as a result of I like frittata. I don’t are inclined to eat large breakfasts like that however I like frittata for lunch or dinner. A wedge of frittata simply warmed up fast within the microwave (affiliate hyperlink) with a easy salad and it’s dinner so so I’m glad that it’s working.
Peter Morrison (05:55)
Mm-hmm. I’d put that with scrambled eggs in a wrap and make a pleasant hearty wrap.
Martha McKinnon (06:03)
Yep, or a hearty wrap. That’s one other good concept. In order that was a recipe that I simply up to date, was an previous burrito recipe. And it was a mixture of mushrooms and lentils and kale blended with some salsa and a few cumin all stirred collectively after which placed on a wrap with a little bit little bit of goat cheese. And it’s so attention-grabbing as a result of I occurred upon the recipe and it dates again prefer to 2014 and it undoubtedly wanted new photos and I had completely forgotten about it. We’ve gotten to the purpose now the place we’ve accomplished so many recipes and been doing this so lengthy. It’s enjoyable to return into the archives and rediscover recipes that you just’d forgotten about. So now I’ve that mixture that once more will be became a wrap. It may be placed on some quinoa or some rice. It may be became a soup. So once more, I simply discover that it’s only a versatile method to feed your self, relying on like what you’re gonna wish to eat within the second in case you’re not gonna know many days forward. So good, I’m glad that’s working. And it actually does take us proper into the air fryer once you discuss having a number of, , shopping for a number of veggies after which simply having to cook dinner them off. Do you want cooking veggies within the air fryer?
Peter Morrison (07:20)
Yeah, proper now it’s my favourite. I believe it’s my favourite factor to cook dinner within the air fryer as a result of I like this, particularly with like broccoli and Brussels sprouts, you get like a little bit charring, which I like and it’s simple to do. It’s, it’s minimal cleanup. You don’t actually need a recipe. Simply , decide your favourite vegetable, spray it with a little bit oil so the seasoning will stick, , combine in no matter you need seasoning smart after which, , cook dinner it off and you may simply cease and begin it a number of occasions whereas it’s cooking, test on it, test on its doneness.
I’ve additionally tried to bake in it, that’s a little bit trickier for me as a result of like the skin or prime will begin to overcook and presumably burn and the within center’s probably not accomplished but. In order that’s a piece in progress. I haven’t actually, I don’t know that I’ve actually cooked hen in it per se. I imply, it’s good for heating up frozen or precooked, one thing that’s already cooked that simply wants a heating, however yeah, I’d say veggies are by far my favourite.
Martha McKinnon (08:58)
Effectively, good. I believe what I discovered with the air fryer is it’s useful to simply consider it as like a mini oven that will get sizzling sooner. So it preheats sooner. It lets you cook dinner sooner since you’re getting extra depth in a small area. And so as an alternative of interested by needing particular recipes, I believe I discover it useful to simply take into consideration, what would I usually cook dinner within the oven and even on the range prime? And also you haven’t cooked hen however I’ve had nice success with boneless skinless hen breasts. And I flatten them, , simply to ensure they’re, , an inch or much less thick, possibly a half inch thick, simply flatten them and I’ve had good success letting them come out to room temperature after which, , cooking them within the sizzling with within the sizzling air fryer, , 360F to 400F levels.
They cook dinner quick they usually’ve been tender and scrumptious. I like to make use of Italian seasoning or Penzey’s granulated roasted garlic. I like my the Montreal steak seasoning. There’s so many like seasonings out there now and simply pull them out. And so they’ve been good and fast. And what I like is I don’t have air con. And so I like the truth that it doesn’t warmth up the entire home the best way turning on my oven does.
So simply give it some thought as something that I’d cook dinner in a skillet, something I’d cook dinner within the oven, below the broiler, on the grill, I can cook dinner within the air fryer. And once more, we’re a household of two, and so it’s an ideal measurement for cooking. The opposite factor I simply tried, inexperienced beans. I like inexperienced beans. Once more, as a result of I like that roasted, I like that charred little bit that they get.
Along with the broccoli, carrots are one other one. Any of the foundation veggies work properly. Roasted, for those who combine up carrots and potatoes and onions collectively and roast them off, they’re scrumptious. And I like form of the meal in a single the place you simply, you may cook dinner even aspect by aspect. And this was, I realized this tip from a cooking class that I’m taking.
Jules from the Stone Soup supplied her Joyful Cooking class at a reduction. It’s a 3 month course and he or she’s mainly educating individuals learn how to cook dinner actually, actually merely with out recipes, which I discover so helpful. Her suggestion is she has totally different templates, so oven cooking or placing collectively what you’d actually name a magic no-cook meal with type precooked elements. Simply totally different templates.
And as soon as she stated, simply study the template, after which you may simply, once more, combine and match. So what she demonstrated within the air fryer, which was actually intelligent, was frozen spinach on one half of the air fryer, after which a frozen salmon filet proper beside within the basket. 400F levels within the air fryer in 10 minutes, each have been accomplished completely. After which once more, simply season at will.
No matter seasoning you may want in your salmon, after all, salt and pepper, however would you like soy sauce? Would you like some kind of Asiany, teriyaki? Would you like pesto? So she’s simply this large advocate for holding your meals actual easy and simply pondering by way of sauces and garnishes. In order that was intelligent and one thing that, once more, for those who’re one or two, it’s simply form of one and accomplished within the air fryer.
If you happen to don’t have an air fryer, once more, that’s one thing you would do on a sheet pan as properly. And he or she did counsel that as the choice. We’ve got a number of air fryer recipes on our web site, and we will clearly hyperlink out to these. However I’d simply encourage people who wish to use the air fryer to simply take into consideration any recipe or any dish that you just like making. And like Peter says, don’t be intimidated by it. You’ll be able to open it, you may shut it, you may test in your meals. It’s actually fast to cease and begin once more, which is sweet.
And so that you don’t need to, I believe once more, like something, it’s only a matter of working with it, enjoying with it, experimenting with it. And the extra you try this, the better it will get. And I simply hold mine on the counter. It’s simply at all times able to go. Warming up leftovers, it’s one other nice machine, particularly if you wish to hold them crispy like a flat bread or pizza or something like that. It’s a fantastic device for warming up. And it occurs a lot extra rapidly than you for those who tried to try this within the oven.
Peter Morrison (13:58)
Mm-hmm. I believe the recipe for sheet pan shrimp and broccoli could be actually good within the air fryer.
Martha McKinnon (14:08)
Yep, we must always most likely replace that one since you’re proper, that might be one other good one. And that recipe comes from one in all my favourite cookbooks that I am going again to repeatedly the place she once more, that was one in all her form of templates. This complete idea of doing all your vegetable and your protein in a sheet pan in a sizzling oven. And I’ll return and have a look at a few of her alternate options too, as a result of possibly it’s time to provide you with a put up itemizing all these various things that you would simply do within the air fryer actual fast and straightforward with each.
Peter Morrison (14:40)
Mm. Proper. I believe too, it’s essential to recollect you don’t need to put them in on the identical time. Like I’m pondering this the broccoli shrimp, in case your broccoli is contemporary, you would possibly wish to begin that first. And in case your shrimp just isn’t frozen, if it’s thawed, it’s solely going to want a few minutes. So, , begin your broccoli, get it going when it when it’s midway accomplished or so.
Martha McKinnon (15:06)
Proper. Precisely.
Peter Morrison (15:09)
You recognize, then you definately toss within the shrimp after which you would end it off collectively. That’s how I’d do it.
Martha McKinnon (15:14)
Completely, and that very properly might be the recipe, , even within the oven since you’re proper, shrimp would cook dinner extra rapidly. And so once more, that’s one thing you simply wish to be conscious of. And it’s such as you stated, it’s very easy to open the basket after which simply add within the ingredient that’s going to take a lot much less time so that you just don’t find yourself with overdone shrimp or for those who had a fish fillet that was not, , frozen.
Peter Morrison (15:40)
Mm. Mm-hmm. One thing else I wish to attempt is like, as a child, I used to like like a toasted peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Type of try this in an air fryer, proper? Get some good complete grain bread and peanut butter or jelly or like a grilled cheese. As a result of I like grilled cheese, however I like dry grilled cheese. Like I hate when there’s a lot butter or oil within the pan and the sandwich will get, or the bread will get form of not soggy, however I identical to it like dryly toasted. In order that’s one thing that I wish to attempt one in all today I believe could be yummy.
Martha McKinnon (16:26)
It’s nearly like a toasted cheese, which I believe sounds yummy. And for those who attempt that and it really works out properly, I believe it’s one other nice recipe for the web site. As a result of once more, I believe lots of people share that the place they don’t like them overly greasy. And generally I’ve accomplished simply toast with a slice of cheese within the center. However once more, then the cheese doesn’t soften fairly as a lot as you would possibly like. So this might be the proper resolution for toastier bread.
Peter Morrison (16:53)
Mm. And I’ve additionally seen some individuals like possibly for those who’re cooking a burger within the air fryer, it might be messy, if you would like a cheeseburger to place the cheese on. However for those who cook dinner the burger until it’s accomplished, proper, the air fryer continues to be sizzling, then you definately open it up, put your slice of cheese on, shut it up. Don’t flip it again on, however simply let the warmth that’s already there, simply go away it in there for one more 30 or 45 seconds after which the cheese will get good and melty. Once more, I haven’t cooked a burger, but it surely’d be simple sufficient to do.
Martha McKinnon (17:37)
Yeah, so I believe the air fryer is simply this glorious machine, particularly for smaller households. And I encourage all people to experiment. We’ll hyperlink out to our favourite air fryer recipes and likewise a few of our oven recipes that might be simply, , modified as much as work within the air fryer. And if anyone listening or watching this has favourite air fryer recipes they’d wish to share, we’d like to get that enter.
Peter Morrison (18:06)
Most undoubtedly. Thanks everybody, have a beautiful day and we’ll be again quickly.
Martha McKinnon (18:15)
Take care.
