The Skinnytaste Air Fryer Cookbook: The 75 Best Healthy Recipes for Your Air Fryer

Product Description NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From bestselling author Gina Homolka comes the must-have air fryer cookbook, featuring 75 quick and easy recipes that deliver on Skinnytaste’s signature “light on calories, big on flavor” promise. Gina Homolka is beloved for her incredible recipes that transform your favorite, comforting foods into healthy, low-cal dishes with tons of flavor. Now she brings her expertise to the game-changing air fryer appliance. Using high-powered, super-hot circulating air like a convection oven, air fryers crisp up your favorite "fried" foods with barely any oil needed. Cook times are shorter than traditional oven methods and the process requires little clean-up. In The Skinnytaste Air Fryer Cookbook, Gina shares 75 of her best recipes that work in every type of air fryer, including basket models and countertop ovens with air fryer settings. You'll of course find crave-worthy recipes for traditionally fried foods, such as Chicken-Vegetable Spring Rolls, Crispy Coconut Shrimp, Za’atar Chickpeas, and Pickle-Brined Chicken Tenders, but Gina also shows you how versatile the appliance can be. Perfectly roasted meats and vegetables like Korean Pork Lettuce Wraps, Roasted Fish with Lemon-Almond Crumbs, Sugar and Spice Acorn Squash, and Charred Sesame Green Beans, along with baked goods like Homemade Bagels and Cinnamon Rolls with Cream Cheese Icing, are all executed beautifully in the compact air fryer. For those of us with a sweet tooth, The Skinnytaste Air Fryer Cookbook even offers low-cal desserts, including Churros, Very Berry Mini Pie, and Baked Apples with Streusel Topping. Many dishes are vegetarian, gluten-free, and keto-friendly—all called out with helpful icons—and every recipe includes nutritional information (with the most up-to-date Weight Watchers points found on the blog). About the Author GINA HOMOLKA is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Skinnytaste Cookbook, Skinnytaste Fast and Slow, and Skinnytaste One and Done, and the founder of Skinnytaste, the award-winning blog. She lives on Long Island with her husband and their two children. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. INTRODUCTIONYes! You finally bought an air fryer! Perhaps you don’t know what to make with it or exactly how to use it. Not to worry. Be prepared to become an air fryer aficionado!If it weren’t for the constant emails from Skinnytaste fans asking me for air fryer recipes, I probably wouldn’t have discovered what all the fuss was about. I resisted buying an air fryer for quite a while because I really didn’t want another gadget or cooking appliance taking up space in my kitchen. My thought was, What can the air fryer do that I can’t do with my oven? I admit I was skeptical. The first recipe I tested was my Buttermilk Oven “Fried” Chicken from my first cookbook, The Skinnytaste Cookbook. The recipe came out perfectly crispy—golden chicken that was juicy and perfectly cooked on the inside—and in half the time it would have taken in the oven. I was amazed. I started testing all my fried favorites—french fries, chicken wings, onion rings, breaded chicken cutlets. I was really impressed! Food came out so much crispier than I could achieve in my oven. And many times, I even had my husband fooled that it wasn’t fried. Needless to say, I was a convert.Suddenly it became a fun challenge trying everything I could think of in my new appliance. Roasted vegetables won me over. Charred string beans, roasted Brussels sprouts, and crisp cauliflower came out perfectly browned—exactly the way I love them. Then I started playing around with salmon, lamb chops, burgers, bagels, and even pizza. I was hooked! There are so many positives: The air fryer takes only three minutes to preheat, doesn’t heat up the kitchen, is safer and healthier than deep frying, and doesn’t smoke up the whole house. This easy, useful kitchen appliance has now replaced my oven on most weekdays and -nights,