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    The Healthy 5-Ingredient Air Fryer Cookbook: 70 Easy Recipes to Bake, Fry, or Roast Your Favorite Foods
    The Healthy 5-Ingredient Air Fryer Cookbook: 70 Easy Recipes to Bake, Fry, or Roast Your Favorite Foods
    The Healthy 5-Ingredient Air Fryer Cookbook: 70 Easy Recipes to Bake, Fry, or Roast Your Favorite Foods
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    The Healthy 5-Ingredient Air Fryer Cookbook: 70 Easy Recipes to Bake, Fry, or Roast Your Favorite Foods

    By Bonnie Matthews and Dawn Hall

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    Make the most of your air fryer, with quick, nutritious meals and snacks made: French Toast, Teriyaki Chicken, Pita Chips, Vegan Taquitos, Chocolate Cake, and much more.

    This exciting, full-color cookbook is an exploration of all that your air fryer can do for you. The authors incorporate a myriad of world flavors with a generous selection of vegetarian and vegan options as well as more traditional comfort foods—all utilizing only a handful of ingredients.

    Recipes like Sriracha Shrimp will appeal to sophisticated palates, but there’s also a whole chapter of healthy kid-friendly options! Find recipes such as:
    • Blueberry French Toast Muffins
    • Teriyaki Chicken with Broccoli and Carrots
    • Flatbread Veggie Pizzas
    • Pistachio-Crusted Shrimp with Asian Dipping Sauce
    • Crispy Cajun Sweet Potato Wedges
    • Garlic-Parmesan Chickpeas
    • Chili-Lime Taro Chips
    • Veggie and Chickpea Nuggets
    • Gingered Almond Cookies

    With the air fryer as your new go-to appliance, you too can discover fresh and easy ways to elevate your meals, whether you’re new to cooking or just new to air fryers.

    “What the heck is an air fryer anyway? Glad you asked! The air fryer is a unique countertop electric machine that uses circulated hot air to bake and grill foods. It’s nothing like an electric deep fat fryer that you fill with cooking oil. Instead, the air fryer requires no deep vat of oil at all; just spray light amounts of cooking spray on foods and insert them into the machine. Because you use very little or no cooking oil, you can create healthier meals without all that extra fat.”
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSkyhorse
    Release dateFeb 5, 2019
    ISBN9781510741607
    The Healthy 5-Ingredient Air Fryer Cookbook: 70 Easy Recipes to Bake, Fry, or Roast Your Favorite Foods
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    Bonnie Matthews

    Bonnie Matthews is a food photographer, cookbook author, and illustrator. When Bonnie is not creating recipes or photographing food, she’s drawing and painting for children’s books and magazines. She’s illustrated 25 books for children, including the award-winning “What To Do” series. In her spare time, she escapes to tiny islands and snorkels to get inspiration for the characters she draws. She is also the author of The Freekeh Cookbook, Hot & Hip Grilling Secrets, Hot & Hip Healthy Gluten-Free Cooking, and The Eat Your Way Healthy at Trader Joe’s Cookbook. She lives in Costa Mesa, California

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    The Healthy 5-Ingredient Air Fryer Cookbook - Bonnie Matthews

    Introduction

    What the heck is an air fryer anyway?

    Glad you asked! The air fryer is a unique countertop electric machine that uses circulated hot air to bake and grill foods. It’s nothing like an electric deep fat fryer that you fill with cooking oil. Instead, the air fryer requires no deep vat of oil at all; just spray light amounts of cooking spray on foods and insert them into the machine. Because you use very little or no cooking oil, you can create healthier meals without all that extra fat.

    The air fryer browns and crisps most foods, just like your oven, but it’s very easy to clean up with a simple removable basket that washes up fast. Its self-contained quiet fan and heat element warm up very quickly and, unlike your oven, it does not heat up your entire kitchen. (It also traps a lot of the food odors while cooking, which is a bonus!)

    The fryer typically comes with 3 main parts that are all easy to clean and simple to handle. The main countertop electric air fryer comes with a pan that is inserted into the appliance. Within that pan is a basket with a handle that holds the food items. The basket base has holes in it to allow for any extra oil, or fats from the food, to drip down so the food isn’t sitting in unnecessary extra fats.

    Who Would Benefit from the Air Fryer?

    We think the air fryer is great for singles, couples, college kids, and small families. Heck, even trailer or cabin campers who have access to electricity would enjoy using it. Most models are very light, and each offers a quick and easy way to make simple meals and snacks. We think you’ll be surprised at how fun it is to cook with!

    What Kind Should You Get?

    We discovered a wide range of price points and brands to choose from. They come with various features, options, and accessories (which can be purchased separately).

    We created the recipes in this book using air fryer cooking methods, but we’ve also created some fun recipes utilizing the accessories, such as:

    Shallow Baking Pan

    This baking tin is great for frittatas, pizzas, or for cooking an item where you wish to retain the juices or sauce.

    Cake Barrel

    Complete with handle, this baking tin works great for cakes, breads, breakfast casseroles, or any meal that might require a deeper pot, such as chili or stew, where you want to retain the liquid.

    Metal Rack and Multi-Purpose Skewer Rack

    The metal grill layer has more than a few good uses! You can place it over a lighter food item, such as a tortilla, to help keep the food in place while cooking. The double grill layer comes with skewers that allow you to cook kebabs, and you can cook the skewered food on top while cooking other foods underneath.

    Mini Silicone Cupcake Pan

    This is great for egg cups, healthier baked sweet treats where you want to control your portion size, and any little baked anythings, really!

    Even if you don’t purchase the extra accessories, you can use oven-safe cookware in the machine, such as ceramic ramekins, silicone single muffin cups, and small metal baking pans.

    A Note on the Recipes

    Because there are so many brands of machines, we’ve found a lot of variables with cooking times and temps. For this reason, we provide a cook temperature, a range for cooking times, and visual indicators of doneness for all our recipes. There may be some differences with your specific machine.

    Because we’re all strapped for time, we wanted to create simple meals that can be made with very few ingredients—5, in fact. The 5 ingredients in each recipe are things you may or may not have on hand. Many of the recipes also call for additional pantry items that are staples in most kitchen (see page xiv). We also call for a lot of prechopped veggies or premade sauces to save on time. Always check the labels to be sure you’re buying the cleanest products with ingredients you can pronounce.

    Why We Wrote This Book

    With people becoming more health conscious and seeking fresh new ways to introduce nutritious foods into their diets, it’s no wonder the air fryer has become so popular. Folks are watching their waistlines, their cashflow, and their clocks. A lot more people are choosing to prepare food at home so they can eat cleaner and know what’s in it.

    This book is a fun exploration of our collaboration in the kitchen. Though we are both self-taught cooks with different cooking styles, we each seek healthier foods that don’t compromise on flavor. We’ve incorporated an abundance of world flavors with influences from all over. And with plant-based foods gaining more popularity, we’ve included many vegetarian and vegan options throughout.

    With the air fryer as your kitchen’s backbone, you too, can discover fresh and easy ways to elevate your meals, whether you’re new to cooking or just new to air fryers. With this book, we’ll help you maintain a conscious effort for making better food choices.

    Your Air Fryer Pantry

    We are all about saving time and not fretting over what to buy or prepare for meals! Having some of these items handy will not only help you make the meals in this book but will also help destress your shopping experience.

    Spice Staples

    Chili powder

    Garlic powder (not garlic salt)

    Ground cinnamon

    Italian seasoning

    Onion powder

    Paprika: sweet (but smoked can spice up a recipe)

    Pepper: freshly ground black and cayenne

    Rubbed sage

    Salt: kosher and Himalayan pink

    Other Staples

    Oil: vegetable, olive, and coconut (optional)

    Cooking spray (or spritzer for oil)

    Breadcrumbs: regular and panko, plain and seasoned

    Eggs

    Fresh garlic

    Fresh citrus: lemons and limes

    Out of breadcrumbs? Make your own:

    Preheat the

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