Air-Fried Breaded Chicken Wings

October 9, 2018 Dexie Jane air-fired hot chicken wings, air-fried chicken wings, air-fryer, Appetizers, cooking chicken wings in air-fryer, cooking with air-fryer, finger foods, magic chef xl air-fryer, Party Food

With Magic Chef XL Air-Fryer helping me cutback on oil in my cooking I had to try making our family’s favorite, chicken wings. I debated for a while whether I should make the wings breaded or not. I wasn’t sure how the air-fryer would take flour so I watched a few videos on YouTube for reference. I guess it’s completely fine which is awesome because I prefer my chicken wings breaded. Now the test was if they’ll be crispy and will they cook perfectly.

The answer is YES!

Air-Fried Breaded Chicken Wings

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Equipment

Air-Fryer

Ingredients

1 pack chicken wings, divided
generous sprinkle of lemon-pepper seasoning
1 tbsp cooking oil
1 cup flour
hot sauce

Instructions

Season the wings with lemon-pepper seasoning.
Add 1 tbsp of cooking oil to the wings. Mix to coat evenly. You can skip this step if you want. The only reason I added 1 tbsp of oil is because I wasn’t sure how it would turn out but I think it’ll be fine. For an option, lightly spray the wings with cooking spray instead.
Place 1 cup of flour in a ziploc bag. Season with lemon-pepper seasoning as well. Drench the chicken wings 6-8 pieces at a time with the flour mixture.
Place them in a pan to shake the excess flour off. Let that set for 5 minutes or so.
Place 10-12(depending on how big the wings are) or 8-10 pieces of wings into the air-fryer basket. This was the last batch of the wings so I was just trying to cook fast. Place less chicken wings just to be sure they’ll cook evenly. Place into the air-fryer. Set the temperature to 350° for 25 minutes.
Midway cooking, take the basket out to flip the chicken wings. Put it back to continue cooking. Give ’em another 5 minutes of cooking if necessary.
Enjoy the wings as is or if you love hot wings like we do: melt butter in a cup(use microwave, 30 seconds or so), add it into a bowl with some hot sauce. Do this in batches to coat the chicken wings with the hot sauce.

There you go. Air-Fried Chicken Wings coated with butter & hot sauce. It felt nice biting into these wings knowing they were not deep fried in so much oil. The wings were crispy and nicely cooked.