Scorching Hot Chicken Wings on the Air Fryer

This is one of my favorite recipes for hot wings on a cooker or grill and need to adapt it to the NuWave 10 Quart Air Fryer. 

I think they look pretty good. I served them with some veggies and a poppy seed dip and it sure made a fine lunch. 

I like to bread them as the breading will hold more of the hot sauce and this old chili head loves this type of food.

Here is my recipe for this treat.

For about 20-25 wing pieces

1/2 cup milk

1 egg

1/2 cup flour

1/2 cup corn meal

1 tsp white pepper

1 tsp fresh ground black pepper

2 tsp garlic powder

2 tsp onion powder

2 tsp cayenne pepper (optional on this amount) Wimps might use a 1/2 teaspoon

I am a chili-head and often double the spices in this recipe if I am cooking the wings just for myself.

Prep the milk and egg wash and then the dry ingredients. Wings into the wash and then rolled in the dry coating. Fridge the wings for about 45 minutes for the coating to set.

Make up your favorite hot wing sauce for basting the wings. I am sure my mixture will be tooo hot for most folks but here it is.

1 cup Louisiana hot sauce

1/4 stick of melted butter

1/8 cup honey

1/8 cup rooster

2 TBL Tabasco

2 tsp ground cayenne pepper

Making up my scorching hot sauce for the wings.

Egg wash first, then into my breading, and then on a plate.

They go into the fridge for about an hour to allow time for the breading to set up.

Ready to go into the air fryer. I did hit them with some olive oil spray to help prevent them from sticking to the grid.

I pulled them out of the air fryer after the first 16 minutes, sauced them, and turned them over and sauced them and placed them back into the cooker.

They were cooked at 390 degrees for 16 minutes and then sauced and turned over and sauced on that side and then cooked for 12 more minutes.

I used a glass pie pan under my wings and a pizza screen on top and then foiled the pizza screen. Cooking without any heat coming from the bottom of the air fryer is kinda difficult as the breading tends to stick to about anything I have used to cook them on. I did oil the foil and the wings came out very good with not much sticking and the breading stayed on the wings quite well. 

They didn't get quite as crisp at the ones I do on an outside grill but were still great.

That is a poppyseed dressing dip in the bowl on the plate.

All in all a pretty good cook but did have one small problem. The fat from the wings didn’t have anyplace to go and wanted to make the bottom side of the breading on the wings slightly soggy...I had to turn them more times that I wanted to prevent this. I should have poked some holes in the foil to allow the fat to run off the cooking grid. 

Spamwich & Breaded Green Beans in the Air Fryer

This cook was done on my NuWave 10 quart air fryer using Grill Grates for the meat. 

I placed a couple of nice thick slices of the Spam on an onion bun, added lettuce, sliced tomatoes, a couple of slices of Swiss cheese, and some horsey sauce and that completed my Spamwich. Served with breaded green beans and also a little dab of refried beans I had leftover from a previous meal. Beans X2

Cut the Spam into 6 slices and then brushed on some olive oil and then sprinkled with black pepper and it was ready for the air fryer. 

Set the temperature at 400 degrees and preheated the air fryer for a full 20 minutes to be sure that this time, I had the Grill Grates as hot as I could get them. Placed the meat on the air fryer and cooked them about 6 minutes and turned them and did 6 more minutes. 

Would have been nice to get a little darker grill marks but that is about as good as I think I can get with this machine. 

Green beans up next and I cooked them at 400 degrees for 9 minutes and they came out great. One of the best things I have done on the air fryer. 

With a little salt, I could easily make a meal out of them. 

Was a pretty simple cook and sure made one great meal.

TGI-Friday's Buffalo Wings in an Air Fryer

Next cook was some purchased frozen breaded TGI-Friday’s Buffalo chicken wings with sauce. They came frozen with just 10 pieces in the box. 

Placed the wings in a glass pie pan for easy clean up and sprayed them with olive oil. 

About done in the Air fryer. I cooked them at 390 degrees for 10 minutes, turned them over and coked another ten minutes and they were done. 

I sauced them with the sauce packet that came with the wings. The wings did come out pretty crispy but the sauce wasn’t very good. Told my lady not to purchase them again. 

Parmesan & Panko Dill Fried Pickle Chips in an Air Fryer

This nice treat / appetizer was made in my NuWave 10 quart air fryer. 

WOW, are these things good. Great with some zesty ranch dressing over them.

I cut the pickles into 1/4" chips, dried them, and then dipped them into well beaten eggs, and then into a mix of 2/3 cup of Panko bread crumbs, 1/3 cup Parmesan cheese, and a couple of pinches of dill weed.

I set the temperature at 400 degrees and cooked the dill chips for 10 minutes.

Meatloaf & Tater Tot's in the Air Fryer

I did this little air fryer cook a couple of days ago and it came out quite nice. The cook was done in my NuWave 10 Quart Air Fryer.

My setup for this cook was a 10" pizza screen over a 9" glass pie pan. This allows me to keep my meatloaf out of it's own grease and fat. This raises the meat up some inside the cooker and also makes for a much easier cleanup. Meat was made up with hamburger, sausage, onions, bell peppers, egg, spices, crackers, and some ketchup. It weighed slightly over two pounds.

Going into the cooker at the start of the cook.

The meat done on the air fryer at 165 degree internal. I set the temperature at 360 degrees, and set the time at 60 minutes, and it came out perfect at 55 minutes so I removed it from the cooker.

The meatloaf just off of the NuWave 10 quart air fryer. You can see all the extra fat that was cooked out of the meat in the glass pie pan.

Sliced for serving.

Tots were cooked after the meatloaf for about 7-8 minutes at 360 degrees.

I served the meatloaf and tots with some refried beans, some cole slaw, and a garlic bun. I know there is too much ketchup on the meatloaf but I have it for the tots as well and dip them into the extra sauce. Sure was a fine lunch.

Gonna be a great lunch!

Triple Dipped Beer Battered Chicken Drumsticks in a Air Fryer

This is a pretty good version of chicken legs in the air fryer and I have about figured out the best way to do them where they are about as good as done in a charcoal or wood fired cooker. 

I know Tom (Let"s Talk BBQ) has been working on the chicken legs as well in his air fryer so this might go good with all his efforts. His you tube videos on the chicken legs got me interested in trying this cook. 

Served with some potatoes and gravy, sliced tomatoes, and some cole slaw.

Not quite as good as deep fried but pretty close. It was juicy and the breading came out crunchy.

First bowl is plain beer, second bowl is a flour and spice mix, and third bowl is my beer batter consisting of beer, egg yolks, flour, and spices. The drumsticks were dipped in the beer first, flour mix next, beer batter next, and then back into the flour mix and placed on a plate.

I didn't want to have to turn them so I loaded just 6 pieces and that left enough room around the pieces to allow some of the heat to go thru and bounce off of the bottom to cook the lower part of my drumsticks. Worked well.

The drumsticks went into the fridge for about two hours to give time for the breading to set up on the meat.

Loaded for the cook.

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Just about done in the NuWave 10 quart air fryer. Cooked at 400 degrees for about 28 minutes.

Not as brown as I wanted but I think they still look good.

Jalapeno Links, Caramelized Onions, & Buffalo Hot Cauliflower

This is another cook on my new NuWave Air Fryer that didn’t come out as well as I expected. It still made a pretty good meal but I am sure I can do better. 

I sliced up a medium onion and a red bell pepper and then dribbled on a couple of teaspoons of olive oil and a generous portion of sea salt and mixed it up and placed it into the cooker. Set the cooker at 300 degrees and the timer at 25 minutes and turned it loose. 

I stirred them about 3-4 times and they got done just fine but did not brown like I wanted. Kinda funny as I can brown this item in a cast iron skillet with just the salt and no oil. 

Put a little olive oil and my sausage links and placed them on my Grill Grates in the cooker. 

Set the temperature at 370 and the timer at 17 minutes. Turned them once and slightly overcooked the links. Wanted an internal of 165 degrees and they came off at about 185 degrees. 

The plated jalapeno links. 

Next up was the Buffalo Hot Cauliflower and all I did to them was to spray a little olive oil on them. Set the temperature at 360 and cooked them 17 minutes. 

Served the sausage with some mustard and some more jalapenos slices on a large hot dog bun. Added a salad and some hot potato chips and called it a meal. 

It was ok but I can only give this one a C minus as it needs a a little work and a more attentive operator to be great.