I like to cook the chicken breast side down for the bulk of the cooking time. I don’t usually preheat the air fryer – usually because I forget! You can heat it up for 5 minutes or so, while you are seasoning up the chicken, but no big deal if you don’t. Once I am done seasoning the chicken I put it straight into the air fryer basket. I mix it all together in a small pot and then sprinkle it over the oiled chicken, either using the pastry brush, or my hands, to rub it in all over. You can add what seasoning you prefer, my usual includes You really don’t need to add much oil – I used 1tbsp of olive oil and I pasted it on with a pastry brush to make sure it was coated all over. You can just pop the chicken straight in the air fryer and it will cook just fine, it will also taste just fine – but if you want super tasting chicken I really recommend adding a little oil and some of your favourite seasonings. Adding Oil And Seasoning To Air Fryer Chicken It’s fine if it fills the whole basket, but you want to make sure there is a little space for the air to circulate. I used a 2kg whole chicken and it was the perfect size. Seems kind of obvious, but make sure the chicken can fit in the basket of the air fryer. The Quick An Easy Way To Cook A Whole Chicken In An Air Fryer Does It Fit? We do occasionally use an electric pressure cooker for a whole chicken, but that isn’t too often. We either use our slow cooker – usually if we are going to be out for the day, or the air fryer. I honestly can’t remember the last time we cooked a roast chicken in the oven. In fact, it can fit in a whole chicken, as you will soon see! Now we use a Power Air Fryer XL (the 5L capacity version) which is more than suitable for our needs.
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It was a great first air fryer – but with us being a family of 5 I soon realised we would be needing a larger sized one if we were to be making big enough meals. My first air fryer purchase was the smallest Phillips Air Fryer.
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When I first got our air fryer it was pretty much with the sole intention of making air fryer chips and our own KFC chicken pieces at home (we still do this!) I never imagined though that I would be able to make so many air fryer recipes! Even if we are not having a full-on Sunday Roast, we like to cook a chicken to have with other meals – it’s also a really economical way to eat chicken, you can use up all the bits for different meals. We probably cook a whole chicken at least once a week in our house.