3 days Ago By Samantha Milner and Dominic Milner
Air fryers may be great at cooking chips and nuggets for the kids, but there are plenty of other fuss-free family staples they can make – if you put your mind to it. Sam and Dom Milner of RecipeThis have released 140 simple, straightforward recipes in their new cookbook Air Fryer Easy Everyday. This no-frills beginner’s guide includes instructions for both basket and dual air fryers, which anyone can follow, regardless of experience.
Here are four recipes to try at home. 20-minute herby canned potatoes I hadn’t eaten a canned potato in more than 20 years, yet here I was, trying them in the air fryer after a reader asked for them. I was pleasantly surprised by how delicious this simple staple tasted, and now I have a pantry stocked with canned potatoes! INGREDIENTS METHOD Serves 2 Butternut squash for everything Butternut pumpkin is so versatile.
It can be transformed from simple roasted pumpkin to a puree, a mash, or a curry sauce, with some simple hacks. INGREDIENTS METHOD Serves 2 Cheese and tomato impossible quiche A frittata is a quiche without any pastry, whereas an impossible quiche is a quiche with a fake pastry. You add flour to the quiche filling, then as the quiche cooks the flour drops to the bottom, creating the structure of a pastry crust.
It’s called “impossible” because when you make it for the first time, your brain is saying “that is impossible”! INGREDIENTS METHOD Serves 6 Simply the easiest cauliflower cheese We have some simple tricks to make this creamy cauliflower cheese even easier. Combining frozen cauliflower with a leftover vegie cheese sauce, this is perfect for Sunday dinners, the festive season or just a simple dinner side dish. INGREDIENTS METHOD Serves 4 Bits ‘n’ bobs cheese sauce INGREDIENTS METHOD Makes 4 freezer cubes Basket sauce : Combine the ingredients in a mixing bowl, then divide it between two silicone containers that fit your air fryer (ours are 20cm) and cook one at a time, following the same time and temperature as mentioned above.
I will usually do the garlic bulb in one batch and the cheese in the other. Bits and bobs : You can mix and match vegetables you have in, but try to balance naturally starchy vegetables, such as root vegetables, with vegetables with a higher water content, such as tomatoes or zucchini. If you just add watery vegetables, your sauce will be too thin, and with too many root vegetables, it will be too thick.
SAUCE SUGGESTIONS Use the sauce as your base for: Cheese sauce – add 225g/21⁄2 cups grated cheddar cheese Tomato sauce – swap the milk for a 400g passata Mexican-style sauce – swap the milk for 400g of salsa This is an edited extract from Air Fryer Easy Everyday by Samantha Milner and Dominic Milner, photography by Dan Jones, published by White Lion Publishing, $35 ..
