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Crispy Air Fried Chicken Wings Recipe
You guys, you are going to be blown away at how delicious these air fried chicken wings are! Wow, our air fryer chicken wings recipe does not use any oil at all. The chicken wings have plenty of oil already and just enough to cook the crispy in the air fryer. It’s incredible how quick and easy air fried chicken wings are to make. The only real effort is seasoning the chicken wings with salt and pepper. Then press a few buttons on the air fryer and within minutes you have the best chicken wings ever.
Video: Air Fryer Chicken Wings Recipe
If you’re looking for a delicious and quick recipe for Game Day or Super Bowl chicken wings, this is it! Once you have the chicken wings made in batches, you can add what ever sauce you like. In fact, you can totally be a chicken-wings-making-machine by having all your sauces ready. Before you know it, you’ll be cooking up batches and sauces them up. You might need two air fryers because you probably won’t be able to keep up at a Super bowl party. Everyone will be devouring these so fast, you can’t keep up.
How to Make Healthy Chicken Wings in Air Fryer:
Season wings with salt and pepper. Add wings to air fryer basket. Then Air Fry the chicken wings.
First Toss : Air Fry then toss and shake the chicken wings.
Second Toss : Shake and toss the chicken wings a second time
Third Toss : Add chicken wings to a bowl, and coat with your favorite sauce. Then air fry one last time for a few minutes.
Done! Finished and absolutely delicious! No oil and so much healthier.
Great Chicken Wing Sauce Recipes:
- Our honey mustard sauce recipe for wings is super easy, it’s takes 5 minutes.
- Maple Bacon bourbon sauce is fantastic!
- Spicy garlic sauce is addictive!
- Sticky Honey Garlic sauce for wings is super popular
- Sriracha chicken wing sauce is for spice lovers!
Try our awesome honey mustard sauce on the air fried wings
More Healthy Air Fryer Recipes Here
What are the Best Air Fryers?
There’s so many on the market now. You just need to research and find the ones that fits your needs, capacity and style. We group the basket style air fryers into 2 main size groups: 3-4 qt range & the 5-6 qt. range. Here’s our favorites:
Cosori 3.7 qt. Digital Air Fryer – “That’s a stylish Air Fryer” was said as we unboxed the Cosori. Beyond being stylish, it has cooked great. The basket is not as tall and wider than most in its size group, which is perfect. You’ll have a lot better results in an air fryer with single layered, spread out foods, then with ones piled high and thick.
The non-stick basket style (non-wire base) & smoothness of the basket tray is also great for clean up.
Ninja 4 qt. Digital Air Fryer – Has a great ceramic coated basket, one of the longest lasting we’ve used. Super powerful fan that will often cook recipes even faster than other air fryers. We initially returned our first one because we thought we wouldn’t like the basket style. After reconsidering, we bought another and are super glad we did. We love it’s basket and just a platform insert. One less bulky thing to wash. This is a great air fryer.
Good Larger Air Fryers
Tiluxury 5.8 qt. Digital Air Fryer – It’s a good larger air fryer capable of cooking for larger families, especially when you need to cook more food. It’s great for cooking bigger batches (ie 4 salmon fillets instead of 2 or 2 lbs of fries instead of 1).We like that this Tiluxury 5.8 qt has the non-stick basket (non-wire base). Makes for less sticking for delicate meals (ie baked fish fillets). And we like the digital interface (easier cleaning).
Gourmia 6 qt. Digital Air Fryer – This is quickly becoming one of our favorite larger basket style air fryers. Great basket size, good controls, cooks nice. Clean up is great. It has become one of our kitchen favorites. We’ll often find it as Costco at a great price too!Air Fryer Chicken Wings
Ingredients
- 2 pounds (907 g) chicken wings
- Kosher salt , or sea salt, to taste
- black pepper , to taste
- garlic salt , optional
Equipment
Instructions
- Pat dry the chicken wings. Season with salt, pepper, and optional garlic salt.
- Air Fry at 400°F for 30-35 minutes, flipping about 3 times while cooking.
- If using a sauce, toss with a little sauce, then air fry for another 4 minutes (otherwise just cook the 30 minutes or until the chicken wings are golden).
- If using a sauce, toss with extra sauce after cooking or serve sauce on the side for dipping.
Video
Notes
- No Oil Necessary.
- Shake several times for even cooking.
- Don’t overcrowd fryer basket.
- If using a sauce, it is added in just at the end, otherwise it will usually burn before the chicken wings are cooked.
- Recipes were cooked in 3-4 qt air fryers. If using a larger air fryer, the recipe might cook quicker so adjust cooking time.
- If cooking in multiple batches, the first batch will take longer to cook if Air Fryer is not already pre-heated.
- Remember to set a timer to shake/flip/toss the food as directed in recipe.
Nutrition
This recipe was originally published in 2019 and re-published in 2020.
Joseph says
You have no idea how obsessed I am with this technique. It’s going to be a hit on Super Bowl sunday and make life so much easier.
Best Recipe Box says
Hi Joseph, yeah these cook up so simple that it’s so easy to make them batches for parties. Enjoy!
Harris says
thanks for the amazing step by step photos! This was so easy and can’t believe it uses no oil!
Best Recipe Box says
Glad you enjoyed the recipe Harris! And the photos too.
Vera says
We just tried these and can’t believe how amazing and crispy they turned out! We sauced it with our favorite bottle of bbq sauce. Will be making it again!
Best Recipe Box says
Thanks Vera! And that sounds awesome with the bbq sauce!
Bernitta Lanning says
I hope you put more Air Fryer recipes on your site!!
Best Recipe Box says
We’re definitely working on it! And glad you’re enjoying air fryer recipes as much as we do! 🙂
Jacklyn says
I’ve tried so many different techniques for chicken wings and deep frying has been my favorite but it requires too much oil. I tried this air fryer method and it’s amazing! The wings came out just as good but uses no oil! Air frying is the way to go!
Best Recipe Box says
Making healthy Air frying chicken wings is easy and truly amazing!
Betsy says
This air fryer is super innovative! Such a great way to “fry food” and keep it healthy! Will definitely be using this recipe again for my Super Bowl party.
Best Recipe Box says
Hi Betsy, glad you’re enjoying the air fryer and have fun eating chicken wings for your Super Bowl party!
Fred says
Just tried this recipe out since I recently bought an air fryer and this has now become my new favorite wing recipe. I can’t wait to try out the rest of your air fryer recipes!
Best Recipe Box says
Thank you so much!
Angie says
I added some bbq sauce and these were quick and perfect!
Sandy says
Fantastic wings and very simple. My sauce was pickle juice, fresh dill, garlic and a little olive oil with a splash of Crystal Sauce.. It was a huge hit. I am obsessed with these!
Best Recipe Box says
Wow! your sauce sounds amazing! thanks for sharing.
Carolyn says
Do you have a recipe for country style Pork Ribs in the Air Fryer. I love my Air Fryer but need more recipes.
Thanks Carolyn
Marie says
Going to try this in the instant pot Airfryer vortex plus oven… hopefully it turns out just as good!
Best Recipe Box says
Let us know how it turns out!
Ana Maria says
First time making chicken wings in my air fryer and these came out perfect! I seasoned them a couple of hours before frying with salt, pepper and garlic powder after drying them well. They came out perfect, I flipped them every 10 minutes. Half pulled out after about 25 minutes and left them plain for one of my granddaughters and the other half i brushed with barbecue sauce and put back in for 4 minutes. Everyone loved them.