Air Fryer Fried Chicken

You guys won't believe how golden and juicy my air fryer fried chicken comes out .

I'm Justin from cooking with quit .

I specialize in clean comfort cooking .

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Let's get started first .

Let's go over all the ingredients you need to make this recipe chicken eggs , flour , buttermilk , garlic powder , paprika , salt and pepper and olive oil spray .

And the one piece of special equipment you need for this recipe is an air fryer .

First thing we're gonna do is to season our chicken with salt and pepper on both sides , right guys .

So we are moving on now to creating our batter mixture .

So that's gonna be uh two eggs first and that's gonna be beaten .

Somebody commented recently in one of my videos that the eggs that I use , the yolks are super vibrant and orange , which I mean I just buy eggs like everybody else at the store .

So I don't know why mine would be different if you guys have noticed the same .

Please let me know in the comments below because now I'm super curious .

All right guys next up we're gonna be adding two cups of buttermilk .

Buttermilk is like , so smooth and creamy .

Like whenever I pour it , I feel like there should be like sexy music or like jazz or something .

God , it's like the craziest texture .

Maybe it's because like , I don't drink a lot of milk , like in my normal life , but buttermilk is awesome .

So now we're just gonna give this a , a mix together until it's all well combined , right , guys .

So now we're gonna move on to our dry seasoning mix .

So we're first gonna start with two cups of flour and next we're gonna add a teaspoon of salt and we're gonna add a teaspoon of pepper right about .

Now , I'm noticing that this bowl is very full and the problem is is that I broke my other bigger size bowl the other day .

So if you're at home , please don't do what I did and use a bigger bowl because now when I mix this , it's probably gonna go all over the place and that's really dumb .

Next , we're gonna add two tablespoons of garlic powder .

It's a lot of garlic powder for sure .

But keep in mind this seasoning and that batter is gonna be good for £2 of chicken .

I am definitely cooking a little bit less uh for this video because I don't wanna make £2 of fried chicken that no one's gonna eat except me .

So I'm gonna probably do about half that .

But I'm gonna keep the seasoning and the batter ratio is basically the same just so you guys can see that .

Ok ?

Here's my second tablespoon and now I'm going to be adding 1.5 tablespoons of paprika .

So here's one I'm gonna kind of eyeball the half .

Let's see .

Whoa , whoa , whoa , whoa , whoa , too much , too much , too much .

So let's do that .

Ok ?

Now I gotta whisk very carefully just so I don't explode the seasoning all over the place .

All right guys .

So now we are going to work on our fried chicken dredging station .

So from my right to left , you've got the chicken that we've already seasoned , then you've got the buttermilk and egg mixture that we've already made and we've got our dry flour and seasoning mixture right here .

So we're gonna be working in this .

I also put a sheet pan at the end .

This is where I'm gonna be storing my chicken pieces before I pop them in my air fryer .

We're first gonna take a piece of chicken , drop it right into the buttermilk .

If you guys have seen my dredging station videos where I do anything breaded , you're gonna notice that I do this very specific technique .

I have a dry hand and a wet hand .

I'm gonna take my right hand and let that be the wet hand this time and my left hand is going to be the dry .

So I use my right hand and I coat the chicken really well in the batter and then using my same wet hand , that's the right hand .

I let it drip a little bit off and then I put it into the dry mixture .

I am going to switch hands and now I'm gonna use my left hand , which is the dry hand and I'm going to coat this chicken with the seasoning and flour mixture and just let this toss around in here and this is an extremely important next step .

So make sure you guys are paying attention , tap the chicken before you take it out of the dry mixture entirely and you just wanna shake off any extra flour .

You don't want that to stick on there .

So there we go .

Once you've done that , then place it on your sheet pan or plate .

So now we're gonna do that with the rest of the chicken pieces .

All right guys , our chicken is almost fully prepped .

We just have one more step .

So grab your olive oil spray and we're just gonna give this chicken a nice kind of , I don't know , light to medium coat and we're gonna do that on both sides .

Now , the olive oil does play a very important role here in helping the chicken and the , especially the chicken skin to get very crispy in the air fryer .

So you don't want to skip this step .

Next thing we're gonna do is to take our olive oil spray and just do a light coat inside the basket .

Now , some people in my past videos have said , you know , you really shouldn't spray olive oil spray inside of an air fryer basket .

If something does happen , you don't blame me .

But I've been doing this a long time and I've never had a problem with putting olive oil spray in the basket .

Ok .

Now we're gonna add our chicken into the basket and we want to try to give each piece of chicken a little bit of space in the basket as much as you can so that the hot air in the air fryer circulates around it , which will make the skin of the chicken super crispy .

Now , we're gonna pop the basket into the air fryer and we are going to set the temperature to 360 °F and we're gonna set the time for 20 minutes .

I am going to be checking the chicken halfway through and I think I'm going to be flipping it , but I don't always commit to that ahead of time .

Let me just see how the chicken looks and we can talk about it .

All right guys , we are just about the halfway mark on the cooking time .

So let's see how we're doing .

Ok , guys , this is looking really , really good already .

So you can start to see the chicken is getting nice and golden .

So in terms of flipping them , I decided while these were cooking , I'm definitely not gonna be flipping the chicken thighs because I don't want them to go skin side down .

But let me take a look at the legs .

Yeah .

You know , I'm gonna flip the legs over .

So I'm just gonna flip the legs here and there we go .

All right .

That's all I'm gonna do .

And now I'm gonna pop it into the air fryer and cook it the rest of the time .

All right guys , the timer just finished .

Let's see how we did .

Woo .

Oh Look at this beautiful and super crispy air fryer fried chicken .

This looks so amazing .

Let me show you guys how we did look at that .

This chicken looks so incredibly delicious .

I cannot wait to give it a try .

But before I do , if you love this recipe and you want to see more just like it .

Check out my air fryer recipes playlist .

OK .

Let's see how we did .

All right guys , one last tip .

Make sure you have checked the internal temperature of this chicken that is 100 and 65 °F minimum .

Because sometimes when you're making this chicken , it looks super crispy on the outside , but it can be undercooked on the inside .

So I've already made sure that this chicken is well above 100 and 65 degrees .

So let's give it a try really hot though .

It so bad .

This air fryer fried chicken tastes so incredible .

The skin is super crispy and the chicken inside is really tender and juicy guys .

I know you're gonna love this recipe .

If you have an air fryer , you have to give it a try .

I'll see you in the next video .