So, prepare your taste buds, turn on your airfryer, and let’s explore together how you can transform simple chicken thighs into a delicious meal. Whether you are an airfryer veteran or new to the game, I promise this post will give you new inspiration and skills to impress both yourself and your guests. Let's get started!
Recipe for chicken thighs in airfryer/activefry
In an era where we’re all seeking healthier alternatives to traditional frying, the air fryer has opened the door to a new age of easy and delicious cooking. Its ability to deliver results close to deep-frying without almost any use of oil is groundbreaking. And what could be better to test the limits of this technology than chicken thighs – one of my favorite dishes.
If you want to get started with chicken thighs in an Airfryer/Activefry, I have a few tips and tricks to succeed:
- Preheat your Airfryer. Run it for a few minutes before adding the food so that it’s warm and ready when you start cooking your chicken. This is optional, but I feel it helps the skin to puff up and get a crispy “fried” texture.
- Marinate/sauce at the end. If you want to coat the meat in something, wait until they are fully cooked if they need to be crispy. Otherwise, you can of course BBQ marinate them before if you don’t need such a crispy crust.
- Don’t open during cooking. Since an Airfryer is sealed, it’s hard to judge your chicken’s doneness based on appearance. Check the chicken’s temperature when you open the Airfryer to flip them – don’t open it just to check the temperature, as too much heat will escape.
- Use a digital thermometer. When your timer is done, immediately test the temperature of the chicken pieces with a digital thermometer inserted into the center of the thickest part of the chicken thigh without touching the bone. Chicken should be 74 degrees inside. If the chicken hasn’t reached 74 degrees internally, add an additional 2-5 minutes of cooking time.
- Don’t overcrowd the basket. Just like the oil in a deep fryer loses its temperature by adding too much at once, the same happens for an Airfryer. It helps to get hot air to circulate around your ingredient and it will “fry” the surface. If you overcrowd it, the air cannot move around and touch all the surfaces.
So prepare your taste buds, turn on your air fryer, and let’s explore together how you can transform simple chicken thighs into a delicious meal. Whether you’re an air fryer veteran or new to the game, I promise this post will give you new inspiration and skills to impress both yourself and your guests. Let’s get started!
Servings: people
Chicken Thighs in Airfryer/Activefry
So, prepare your taste buds, turn on your airfryer, and let’s explore together how you can transform simple chicken thighs into a delicious meal. Whether you are an airfryer veteran or new to the game, I promise this post will give you new inspiration and skills to impress both yourself and your guests. Let's get started!
Equipment
- 1 Airfryer
Ingredients
- 4 pcs. chicken thigh both drumsticks and thighs or a combination can be used here
- Salt for gourmet salting
Spice Mix
- 2.3 gram Cayenne Pepper
- 2.4 gram Onion Powder
- 3.1 gram Garlic Powder
- 2.3 gram Paprika
- 27.2 gram Oil neutral in flavor
- Salt and Pepper
Instructions
Gourmet Salting
- Start by generously sprinkling salt on both sides of the chicken. This is called gourmet salting and draws a bit of moisture out of your chicken thighs and "brines" the meat, making it juicier.
- After 10 minutes, brush off most of the salt with a clean kitchen towel.
Seasoning Blend
- Mix all the spices in a bowl with the oil. Stir well.
- Place the chicken into the seasoning blend (or brush them, so that the entire surface on both sides is covered with the oil seasoning blend. Use a bit more oil if there's not enough.
Cooking
- Preheat your airfryer to 200 degrees Celsius (392 degrees Fahrenheit).
- Place your chicken thighs in the airfryer and cook them for 12 minutes on one side.
- After 12 minutes, turn them over and cook for another 12 minutes.
- Take them out of the oven and let them rest on a rack for at least 5 minutes.
- They are now ready to serve.
- Enjoy your meal.