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Air Fryer Fried Pickles are one of our favorite appetizers for game day or a complimentary side dish for dinner. Crispy after being air fried, these pickles have the perfect seasoning and crunch.
Why You’ll Love These Air Fried Pickles
This Air Fryer Fried Pickles is a fun appetizer recipe, but is full of flavor too. I love dipping the chips in ranch, and having them as a snack.
Ingredients
- Dill Pickles, pickle chips or pickle spears- For a unique pickle flavor, use sweet pickles or butter pickles
- All Purpose Flour
- Eggs
- Bread Crumbs- Regular or Italian Seasoning
- Paprika
- Kosher Salt- you can also change flavors by using garlic salt
- Black Pepper
- Optional: for an extra bit of spice taste, add chili powder, chipotle pepper, or cayenne powder
How to Make Air Fryer Pickle Chips
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Begin by draining pickles from pickle juice. Slice pickles, then pat pickles dry with a paper towel.
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Use three small to medium bowls for your breading station, preferably a shallow bowl. In one bowl add flour. In the second bowl, add whisked eggs. In the third bowl, combine the bread crumbs, paprika, salt, and pepper. Stir together.
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Dredge each pickle in the flour mixture, shaking off excess flour. Next, dip chips in egg mixture, and finally into the breadcrumb mixture, giving it a light coating. Gently tap off excess batter.
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Working in batches, place the coated pickle slices in air fryer basket that has been lightly sprayed with oil or lined with air fryer parchment paper.
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Air fry pickles at 380ºF for 7-10 minutes, flip the pickles halfway through air frying process. Pickles will be crispy and golden brown.
FAQs:
When air frying pickles, you can eat as an appetizer, or pair with Air Fryer Corn Dogs, Air Fryer Chicken Wings, and Air Fryer Pretzel Dogs.
For an amazing appetizer, serve pickles with ranch dressing, like Hidden Valley Ranch, Blue Cheese Dressing, Thousand Island Dressing, hot sauce, or any other favorite dipping sauce you like!
Yes! You can buy pickles already sliced to save time.
If you want an extra crispy texture without dousing your pickles in oil, use cooking spray or a light spritz of oil! A little spritz of cooking spray or oil allows the bread crumbs to harden without adding a ton of fat!
To make fried pickle spears, instead of cutting your pickles into chips, slice them into spears! Repeat the steps above, adding a spritz of cooking spray if you want. Then, place the pickles into the Air Fryer basket in a single layer.
You can use garlic powder, onion powder, creole seasoning, Cajun seasoning, or any other seasoning you think would work for this recipe!
These fried pickles taste best when fresh. But you can store leftovers in the fridge for 2-3 days using an airtight container.
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Air Fryer Fried Pickles
Equipment
- 1 Air Fryer
Ingredients
- 4 dill pickles, cut into slices or spears
- 1/2 cup all purpose flour
- 2 large eggs, beaten or whisked
- 1 cup bread crumbs, Italian or Regular
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
Instructions
- Begin by drain pickles from pickle juice. Slice pickles, then pat pickles dry with a paper towel.
- Using three small to medium bowls for your breading station, preferably a shallow bowl. In one bowl add flour. The second bowl, add beaten eggs. In the third bowl, combine the bread crumbs, paprika, salt, and pepper. Stir together.
- Dip each pickle in the flour mixture, shaking off excess flour. Next, dip chips in egg mixture, and finally into the breadcrumb mixture, giving it a light coating. Gently tap off excess crumbs.
- Place the coated pickle slices in air fryer basket that has been lightly sprayed with oil or lined with parchment paper.
- Air fry pickles at 380ºF for 7-10 minutes, turning the pickles halfway through air frying process. Pickles will be crispy and golden brown.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Unbelievably DELECIOUS
What is the dip called would love to have the recipe for it
I just used a buffalo sauce or I will use Ranch Dressing. Hope that helps.