Air Fryer Whole Chicken

Once you see how incredible a whole chicken comes out in the air fryer , you're never gonna go back to the oven again .

I'm Justin from cooking with Coy .

I specialize in clean comfort cooking .

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Let's get started .

Let's first go over all the ingredients you need to make this recipe , one whole chicken paprika , garlic powder , salt , pepper and olive oil .

And the two pieces of equipment you need for this recipe is an air fryer and a small mixing bowl .

First thing we're gonna do is to make our marinade .

We're gonna start with one teaspoon of paprika .

Next we're gonna add one teaspoon of garlic powder .

We're also gonna do one teaspoon of salt and one teaspoon of pepper .

I really , really like when I'm looking at recipes , when the person that made the recipe has gone out of their way to try to make the measurement is really simple .

I hate doing like fractions of teaspoons and stuff .

So I try to avoid it when possible .

So I hope you guys appreciate it .

I just did one teaspoon of each of these spices across the board .

And now we're just gonna take our little teaspoon guy and we're just gonna give this a nice mix .

Now , depending on the size of your chicken .

If you had a bigger chicken than I have , this is , uh , I think about a £3.5 chicken .

If your chicken is gonna be bigger , you could increase the seasonings a little bit more just to help cover a bigger chicken .

Now , we're gonna add two tablespoons of olive oil right on top of our uh spices .

Now I'm gonna grab a little spoon and let's give this a mix .

All right .

So this is exactly what the marinade should look like at this point , right .

So now we're gonna take this marinade and rub it all over the chicken .

I hope you guys don't have a fear of rubbing raw chicken .

I have a couple of friends that do .

And so I don't know , I don't have to say about that .

Like , I guess you could use , oh , you know what you could do , you could use one of these guys like this little kind of like rubbery bristly brush and do it if you're afraid to touch chicken .

But my suggestion is don't be afraid to touch chicken because this is an animal that gave its life so that we could eat it .

So I think the least we can do is to rub it with the marinade and not be afraid of it .

Just my opinion .

Take the marinade and let's dump it out all over the chicken just like this .

Just wanna try to get it all over as much as you can .

And then this is the fun part in my mind .

You just start massaging the chicken .

That's right .

Like a Swedish massage .

You don't wanna be like in there , like too hard using your elbows , just nice and gentle , just like this .

He'd even have like some very gentle massage , music playing in the background .

Just wanna have a lot of respect for this chicken and you wanna get the underside too if you can let the uh marinade drip down to the bottom and then get the underside .

There we go .

Ok .

This is a very happy and very marinated chicken .

One other thing I will say too that I actually forgot to do , which was kind of dumb .

I should have taken my chicken out of the refrigerator and let it come to room temperature or close to it maybe 20 to 30 minutes before I'm gonna cook it .

It's just better to do that .

It's gonna cook more evenly throughout .

So if you can remember to take it out early , definitely do that .

All right guys .

Now we're gonna pop this chicken into the basket of the air fryer .

Best thing to do is to start breast side down .

So currently right now this is breast side up .

So I am going to grab this chicken and then flip it upside down .

It takes a little bit of wrist strength and there we go and just plop it in .

Oh no , guys , guys , guys , I forgot a step .

Hang on .

Let me back up .

Don't kill me .

All right .

So the step that I forgot was I want to do a light coating of olive oil spray in the basket so that the skin doesn't stick .

Give me a sec trusty olive oil spray just to give a light coating inside .

Even on the sides .

It's probably good too just in case the chicken is touching the sides .

All right , there we go .

Now we're gonna take the chicken and put it back into the basket breast side down .

So if you guys are wondering why am I gonna start with the chicken breast side down ?

So this is why the white meat of the chicken , the breast meat is always gonna dry out the quickest because it has the least amount of fat content in it .

So what we're gonna do is use gravity .

We're gonna uh start with the breast side down .

So that all the juices from the other more juicier meat run into the breast meat , which will make it juicier and less dried out .

So we're gonna start with the chicken breast side down , which is a total cooking time of 60 minutes .

We're gonna cook halfway breast side down .

30 minutes , we're gonna pull it out and flip it at the 30 minute mark to breast side up .

One other note too , one of the most important parts of this recipe is picking the right sized chicken for your air fryer .

Like I said before , the chicken that I picked was about 3 £3.5 .

And this fits really nicely in the air fryer .

But if you pick a chicken that's a little bit too big .

One thing you could do is trust the chicken , which is taking cooking twine and then wrapping it up .

There's like a very official way to do it .

I actually don't know the official way , but I kind of just do it my own way that I created .

You can look up some videos on youtube and they'll show you exactly how to do it .

Trusting the chicken brings it a little bit like closer together , all of the legs and , and wings and stuff and brings it closer to the body of the chicken which will make the chicken smaller in the basket with that said , let's pop it in the air fryer .

We are going to set the air fryer to 350 degrees , which it already is and we're going to start it at 60 minutes and then hit start .

So before I came up with this air fryer whole chicken recipe , I was always cooking my chickens in the oven and they came out actually pretty good .

Each time I never felt like I needed to change the way that I was cooking my whole chickens .

However , since I started to use the air fryer , the skin comes out crispier .

I feel like there's less to clean up in a way it's just more manageable .

So I really , really love using an air fryer to cook my whole chicken and I'm definitely not going back to the oven any time soon .

All right , guys , we have reached the halfway point and that's 30 minutes into our 60 minute cooking time .

Let's see how we're doing .

00 , look at this chicken .

Oh my gosh .

Look .

OK .

Look how crispy the skin is .

Hear that ?

Wait .

Wow .

OK .

So this is exactly what I'm talking about why the air fryer is so good for this whole chicken .

So the next thing we need to do is just give it a flip .

We're gonna go breast side up for the remainder of the 30 minutes .

I'm really hoping , I don't think the skin is sticking .

That's the only danger here is that the skin gets stuck to the basket and then tears which would be not the end of the world .

Just not great .

Yeah , we're OK .

We're OK .

OK .

All right .

So let's do a quick flip .

There we go .

So as you can see the side that was up first is much crispier than the bottom side .

So now this bottom side , the breast side is gonna get super crispy for the next 30 minutes , let's pop it back in there .

So what's gonna happen is as your chicken is cooking , it's going to expand a little so making it potentially a little tougher to get it back in , but I think we're gonna be ok .

Ok .

Let's pop it back in .

All right and it's gonna continue and I'll check back in with you guys in another 30 minutes .

Ok ?

Alright guys look at how incredible this chicken came out of the air fryer .

Ok .

So this is what we have to do right now .

We've got to let this chicken rest for just about 10 minutes .

We don't want to cut it too quickly or else the juices are gonna run .

So let's let it sit and then I am going to cut into it and show you how we did this chicken looks so delicious .

I cannot wait to give it a try .

But before I do , if you love this recipe and you wanna see more just like it , check out my air fryer recipes playlist , ok ?

Let's give it a try .

Right guys .

I am gonna cut into the chicken breast part because I feel like that is always the toughest part of the chicken to get super juicy .

So let's see how we did there guys .

Look , look at how juicy this is .

I'm gonna get a shot of this .

Look at how juicy .

Well , I gotta get a little skin hang .

I'm telling you the air fryer is where it's at .

This is exactly how you need to make all of your whole chickens from now on .

I promise you , you guys are gonna love this recipe .

You definitely have to give it a try .

I'll see you in the next video .