Easy Chicken Breast Air Fryer Recipes

Tender and Juicy Air Fryer Chicken is golden crispy outside and moist and delicate on the inside. This is bursting with flavor and so good!

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Air Fryers have changed cooking. It’s so quick and easy and everything that comes out tastes amazing. I love it. This is such a healthy way to cook chicken or any other dish for that matter. It uses the same method as a convection oven but this way you don’t have to heat the whole oven for just a few chicken breasts. It’s quick and the clean up is so easy.

The Best Air Fryer Chicken Breast Recipe

Chicken can be finicky sometimes, and hard to get juicy and tender each and every time. The air fryer method takes a lot of the guess work out for you. You will just need to take the Chickens temperature to ensure doneness, and that you don’t overcook it.  This is so versatile so change it up as you need to and enjoy.

You will make your chicken in the air fryer from now on. It’s so easy and fail proof. Never wonder what’s for dinner again!

Tender and Juicy Air Fryer Chicken is golden crispy outside and moist and delicate on the inside. This is bursting with flavor and so good! 

Easy Air Fryer Chicken Breast

Calories: 102 kcal Carbohydrates: 2 g Protein: 12 g Fat: 5 g Saturated Fat: 1 g Cholesterol: 36 mg Sodium: 67 mg Potassium: 234 mg Fiber: 1 g Sugar: 1 g Vitamin A: 161 IU Vitamin C: 1 mg Calcium: 23 mg Iron: 1 mg

Welcome to my kitchen! I am Alyssa Rivers and the food blogger behind The Recipe Critic. The blog launched in 2012 as a place to share my passion for cooking. I love trying new things and testing them out with my family. Each recipe is tried and true, family-tested and approved.Are you ready for the easiest and juiciest chicken breast? This Air Fryer Chicken Breast recipe is fool-proof, bursting with flavor, and the easiest way to get a chicken dinner on the table any night of the week! Made in partnership with my friends at Farmer Focus.

We love chicken breast recipes around here! When cooked right (ahem… not overcooked and dry), this leaner cut of chicken is so delicious and versatile! This is my new favorite method of cooking chicken breasts because it checks off a ton of boxes:

Best Air Fryer Chicken Breast

Trust me, you’ll be using this method time and time again! And… at this point you know I love my air fryer. It’s just one of those magical appliances that I cannot get enough of. This chicken breast air fryer recipe is naturally gluten-free, low carb and keto, paleo-friendly, and allergy-friendly!

Want a different spice blend? Try our Homemade Taco Seasoning, Cajun Seasoning, or simply make it a touch spicier with a dash of cayenne pepper.

Chicken is of course the star of this dish, so it is incredibly important to use the best quality! I am so happy to partner with my friends atFarmer Focusto bring you this easy time-saving recipe. Farmer Focus has been mygo-to, trusted chickenfor years because they pride themselves in producing the highest quality meat grown on family-owned farms.

Air Fryer Chicken And Potatoes

You can 100% taste the difference. I love knowing that, without a doubt, when I pick up Farmer Focus chicken at the grocery store, it’s the best there is and I don’t have to question whether it was raised in a humane way. They are a company that supports their farmer partners and they are working hard to do things right and truly raise and produce the highest quality chicken! Every Farmer Focus product includes a 4-letter Farm ID that traces your chicken to the farm that raised it!

Farmer Focus chickens are humanely raised and fed a diet free from animal byproducts, pesticides, and antibiotics. On theirwebsiteyou can see where all of the farms are located, so you know just where your chicken was raised! How awesome is that? You can also use theireasy store locator to find where you can get this amazing quality chicken near you!

So the goal of cooking chicken breasts in the air fryer is to cook them just right, quickly, without much oil, and get the most perfect juicy and moist chicken breast! You don’t want to overcook them as that can mean dry chicken. You don’t want to undercook them, because that, of course, means raw chicken.

Air Fryer Chicken Breasts

We always suggest using an instant-read thermometer (we love ourThermapen) to check the temperature of meat, but the goal is to get the chicken cooked to 165º. And the biggest indicator of proper cooking time of air fryer chicken breasts is the size of the chicken breasts!

Chicken breasts these days can range in size anywhere from 9 ounces to more than 14 ounces! The actual time needed in the air fryer will depend exactly on how large your chicken breast is.

Our best tip is that if you are cooking more than 1 chicken breast at a time, try to make sure they are all similar sizes.

Air Fryer Fried Chicken

We recommend weighing the largest one before determining the amount of time needed. It is not the cumulative weight of all of the chicken breasts, but just the weight of the largest one that determines the number of minutes needed.

As mentioned above, how long it will take to cook chicken in the air fryer will vary based on the size of your chicken breasts. Keep in mind that you will need to flip the chicken halfway through cooking!

As all meat does, the chicken will continue to cook while it is resting, and this is a good thing. After the chicken has finished cooking, check the temperature. It should ideally be around 155

Easy Breaded Air Fryer Chicken Breast

Let the chicken sit for an additional 5 minutes. The temperature will continue to rise as the chicken rests. Double-check one more time that the temperature has risen to 165ºF after it has rested! Then you are ready to eat!

If for some reason the chicken is below 155ºF once it has finished cooking, you can simply cook the chicken for 2 more minutes or so!

If you’ve made my Thanksgiving Turkey (with Herbs and Citrus), you know I am a big fan of a dry brine over a wet brine. When thinking about making simple air fryer chicken breasts for a weeknight dinner or meal prep, a wet brine was a big no for me! I can achieve the same juiciness with a dry brine, and it’s way easier and less messy!

Crispy Air Fryer Breaded Chicken Breast

I recommend it! It’s definitely the secret for juicy chicken in the air fryer! Brining with salt helps the meat to absorb extra liquid!

We’ve tried quite a few air fryers over the years. We’ve have and use thisbasket style, thisInstant Pot air fryer attachmentand thistoaster-style air fryer! They all work great! It’s quite a personal preference which you choose. Do you want/need a new toaster? Do you have space for a solo new appliance? All these things will go into consideration when shopping and deciding which of those will work for you. It’s not a small appliance, so make sure you have space for it!

What there is to be aware of about air fryers though is that some of them can be quite small. If yours has a small capacity, you may have to make the chicken breasts in batches. Though I’m guessing if you’ve been using this air fryer for a while, you’ve already learned that.

Air Fryer Chicken Breast Recipe

Cooking it in batches, if you have a small capacity air fryer, ensures there is plenty of air circulation around the wings so they can get crispy. If you do need to do it in batches, at the very end you can put all of the wings back in the basket and cook for one minute to warm them all back up!

So you know I’m notat allafraid of healthy fats, but when I fry foods, I use avocado oil and it can get expensive. I really like that this is such a small quantity of oil, which means money saved! And if you are looking to cut down on some fats, this appliance definitely can help you achieve that. It’s also convenient and super easy.

Knowing how to cook chicken breasts is great if you need a quick meal, but using this method is also a way to cook bulk chicken for different recipes. Here are our favorite ways of making meals out of cooked chicken breasts:

Juicy Air Fryer Boneless Chicken Breast

There are so many options for serving with this meal. You can, of course, serve with a quick side salad for a simple meal. Or dress it up a bit with a favorite side dish:

Are you ready for the easiest and juiciest chicken breast? This Air Fryer Chicken Breast recipe is fool-proof, bursting with flavor, and the easiest way to get a chicken dinner on the table any night of the week

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Air Fryer Stuffed Chicken Breast