The CRISPIEST Air Fryer Fried Chicken Recipe // EASY Air Fryer Recipe // Buttermilk Fried Chicken 

I love how real you are. Straight to the point with just enough personality and jokes! You won a subscriber 😊

My parents wanted to eat crispy chicken but air fried, this recipe is AMAZING thanks so much!! Now I can enjoy my favorite food :D

This was a lot of work for an 81 yr old senior with a new Air Fryer. Without a dishwasher, the cleanup was time consuming. My results were only about a 6 out of 10 as my chicken wasn't as crispy as per the recipe. However, I will try again! Thank you

I like this lady's enthusiasm and personality. The recipe doesn't look too bad, either.

You are always a joy to watch thank you. Making deep slits helps get the marination deep inside.

Fried chicken is something I've never mastered. This looks simple enough!

one of the best air fryer fried chicken methods i've tried... and you get straight to the point. I hate waiting several minutes through a lot of banter before the vid gets to what I viewed it for. good stuff here! great vid...thanx huge!!!

Love this channel I learn how to use my air fryer plus recipes ✌🏼❣️❣️✌🏼

Congratulations on your award you deserve it! You’ve been great and tremendous help. I’ve still looking to get one for my wife just been busy.

So for those of you like me that are air fryer newbs, my first few batches burned using her settings. For boneless skinless chicken finger or strips 380 5 minutes on each since or 6-7 minutes on each side for chicken breasts depending on the thickness. Oh and if you do dry chicken, just egg wash and flour make sure you HEAVILY coat the chicken in cooking spray.

Made this for my gf tonight and she loved it!! Thanks for making me look like an awesome cook 🍳🙂👌

Cathy, when marinating raw chicken in a plastic bag, you should roll the bag sides down leaving the bags insides showing so when you’re putting chicken in, the outside of the bag stays clean because all the drips are now on the inside of the bag. We Love your channel! My Wife & I are hooked. So much that we may need another air fryer. Ours is a large capacity but want to have multiple foods cooking at the same time. We have a newer model so we cannot get another basket yet. Will get one ASAP though. Thanks for all the Fantastic recipes.

Amazing coating, just enough of spice and crunch. "Double dip forever" Thank you so much. 👍

You are my type of cook and I'm subscribing! Thanks for making sense , the best of the chicken fryer videos out there!!!

When a recipe calls for buttermilk, I use Cultured Buttermilk Blend, which is a dry mix, just add water. This can be found in the baking section of the grocery store. The brand name is The Saco Pantry.

This is definitely a MUST TRY! Thank you!!

Perfect video and straight to the point. I loved when you asked for buttermilk, which I don’t have, and showed a substitute instead. Gonna try this right now at 2 am😂

I love the Buttermilk substitution. I am going to us this from now one. Thank you!

So I am so grateful for your RU-vid channel. I just got a air fryer for Christmas and I'm like how the heck I'm going to work this thing. I just want to say thanks. this really helped me a lot

I called my friend Jackie to walk me through how to use this air fryer, because we have the same one, but she was unavailable she didn't answer the phone. So when in doubt find someone on RU-vid. Your video was the one I chose and let me tell you my chicken turned out perfect beautiful golden and crispy. I followed your instructions to the end. Thank you very much!

Cathy, Im 65 years old single living alone. I haven't cooked for myself since my 20's. Circumstances I have to now cook at home, and can't afford to take out. I got a Chefman 5.8 a few weeks ago, and I must tell you I love it. It makes cooking fun and Im just like you, Im lazy and hate having to wait for my food. Anyway just want to tell you THANK YOU, I love your videos they're great and you are hilarious I love watching your videos. God Bless You!

My new fav channel!

Now I can eat "fried chicken" 5 days a week 😂 I will use pam oil spray lightly to "mist" the flour on the chicken. Drumsticks are great. Cheap and delicious. Thank you for the recipe. One suggestion: instead of using the ziplock bag, you may want to try using a big lunch box with the lid. Studier hold and easier to use overall. Probably you can "pound" in the flour and make it stick to the chicken better because of all the collisions within the container.

Can’t wait to try this. Looks delicious.

I just bought cosori and used it twice.. Overall I am very happy I found your channel when I was looking for s good air fryer.. Thanks to you I bought a good one.. Better than my mom's AF

definitely making this for my family!

I'm new to air fryers so I've been binge watching your channel and its soooo helpful. I was wondering what type of flour do you use in your crispy chicken recipe please?

Made them today for dinner amazing..loved them❤👍👍👍

I love ❤️ your videos and your recipes thanks for sharing!

Whoooo hoooo just bought an air fryer and now I can still make my "crispy chicken" thanks so much, SUBSCRIBED 😊❤👍

Thanks for another great recipe! ❤ I just ordered the Misto sprayer & the parchment paper you recommended.

I gonna do it tonight ❤ it looks delicious 😋

Thank you. It tasted great!

LOL you're a natural, fun video and great directions. I enjoyed that. Have my chicken marinating now. Thanks!

You are the cutest! Thank you for posting. Here I go to my new air fryer to give this a whirl!

You're amazing ❤️!! Thank you for sharing all these recipes, I'm trying to incorporate animal protein in my diet .

Wonderful recipe, delicious chicken drums with a little kick

Omg looks and sounded so crispy can't wait to try it & of course shared the recipe with my son thank you ❤️

Totally inspired! Thanks Kath!

I started watching you chanel today and you convinced me to get the cosori air fryer and got a new subscriber.

Thank you for this recipe just got an air fryer oven going to try this next. It looks delicious.😋 I just subscribed.

The fried chicken, taste so good when I eat with the Delta Parole music on blast the fried chicken is love fried chicken is life.

I made this and it was a huge hit in our family!

Love this recipe, I think I would add left over sour pickle juice to the marinade too!!

Thank you best Cook

Brilliant, thx !

Love your personality 1st and foremost. That's what I look at 1st. You just got a new subscriber. Just got a COSORI Air Fryer and I'm watching you NOW all the time because it didn't come with the instructions. Thank you, and how about a rump roast? Can you help me with that? ❤💯🇺🇲🙏👍🙋

wow definitely trying this

Made this tonight except I deboned thighs and left skin on and it's so good! I've always used flour /cornstarch mix, but never used baking powder. Now I'm sold!!

I learn so much from you. Thank you

OMG Cathy, I use chicken thighs instead of legs and it came out awesome, thank you so so much for this recipe. I will make my chicken this way all the time!! PS stop making great videos like this because I am falling in love with you, head over heels!! 👠 😂

This looks really good! Thank u!

I think you’re awesome Cathy! Love your Channel👍🏻🌸🦋💕

This is my first time watching your video and I like how you cook your air fried chicken

It’ll be dinner tomorrow, thank you!

Once again good job , thanks

Always so cute and funny while giving us great recipes. Thanks

Will try wish me luck!

Hey Kathy, The other nite I did a whole chicken in the Cosori 6qt. My wife thought it was fantastic and that I had gone to a lot of trouble. All I did was; cut open the bag, rinse off the bird, place it breast side down in the basket and shake Montreal Chicken Seasoning on it. I set it for 380F @ 60 minutes with "shake". Halfway, I flipped it and seasoned the "good side" and let er rip. You can jack it up to 400F for the last 5 minutes or so.

Yummy recipe , well made

Okay, so today I made this air fried buttermilk chicken recipe, and I spent at least 30 minutes explaining everything I did, how things turned out, and what I learnt from the process. Then the laptop froze just before I was about to submit the comment! Ugh!!! So, starting over.... I prepared the ingredients according to the recipe except I doubled the baking powder as I was under the impression from other recipes that a bit more should be used. I am not sure if it helped or hurt. I used real buttermilk, Frank's hot sauce, and King Arthur flour because I read King Arthur is a very high quality flour. I really did not notice any difference between it and Gold Medal, though. I brushed each breaded thigh with La Tourangelle avocado oil. I wanted to use Avohass, but I was unable to find Avohass locally. This was the first time I ever used avocado oil. I think it performed about the same as grapeseed oil which is what I normally use. I used six large, boneless, skinless chicken thighs. I figured I would eat one or two of them and refrigerate the others so they could be reheated for a fast meal another day. I marinated the thighs in the buttermilk mixture for 15-16 hours before breading them. One of the first things I realised once I began to set up the air fryer and the breading station is that the marinade ingredients make enough for more than six large thighs, but the flour mixture makes barely enough for six large thighs dredged once. I wanted to double dredge them, but I could see after I breaded the first thigh that there would not be enough flour mixture to double dredge all six pieces, so I dredged the remaining five thighs once only which turned out to be a good thing if you read to the end. if I wanted to make six large thighs again, I would double the flour mixture. I brushed each thigh with the avocado oil and set aside a perforated sheet of parchment paper whilst the air fryer preheated. Due to their large size, I had to fry one thigh at a time for a total of twenty minutes each to reach an internal temperature of 165. During this process, I figured out a couple of things. The first thing I realised was that by the third chicken thigh, the parchment paper had to be replaced because the breading stuck to it instead of to the meat. I also realised it had been a bad idea to bread all six pieces before I began frying them. The breading turned mushy as the chicken pieces sat and awaited their turn in the air fryer. Then once a chicken piece was placed in the air fryer, it stuck to the parchment paper, and once I either needed to turn over a thigh or to remove it altogether at the end of the cooking time, the parchment pulled up and away from the crisper tray with the chicken and crumpled up on itself. I had to replace the sheet of parchment paper by the time I put in the third thigh, and by the time the fifth thigh was ready to go into the air fryer, I abandoned the parchment paper altogether and fried the last two thighs directly on the crisper tray. Only the first thigh turned out reasonably crispy but not deep fried crispy at all. Thighs three through six did not turn out crispy at all. If I make this recipe again, I will not bread each piece of meat until a minute or two before it will go into the fryer. Breading all of them up front before beginning frying just makes the breading turn mushy and slippery, thus making it hard for me to pick up each thigh with the tongs. The weight of one thigh with the wet, slippery breading on it, brushed light with a little oil made picking up each piece a challenge. Altogether, I spent 120 minutes air frying six pieces of chicken. I did not look at the clock before I started to prepare the breading station and then breaded each piece, but I am sure it must have taken at least 20-25 minutes. I used a ziplock bag to bread each marinated thigh. I am seriously considering purchasing one of those Better Breader bowls or just using a large plate for the flour. I did not find the ziplock bag all that helpful. In the end, I concluded several things: (1) If you are cooking for one to two people only, it would be best to cut down the recipe to make two large thighs due to the long time needed to cook each one. (2) Double the flour mixture if you want to double dredge the chicken pieces. (3) Bread each piece no more than a couple of minutes before it is to go into the air fryer. (4) If you plan to make more than two large chicken pieces, be prepared to replace the parchment paper after the first two pieces are fried. (5) If like myself you normally bake all chicken pieces in an oven cooking bag, be aware that air frying chicken pieces will require substantially more cooking time and more clean up time than baking chicken in an oven bag will require. (6) Even if you cook for only 1-2 people, you need a larger air fryer than you might think initially. My air fryer is a 5 qt Cosori, which seemed large to me at the time I purchased it, but having used it a few times now, I realise I could have easily done with 6 qt or even a little larger. The chicken was flavourful despite everything, but only the first thigh had any real crispiness to it. As I said, though, I think breading all thighs up front was my mistake. Would I make this recipe again? Yes, but I definitely would want to cut it down to enough for two large pieces at a time, and I would not bread each piece any sooner than absolutely necessary. I would also expect to dedicate twenty minutes frying time to each chicken thigh, and I would try to use even less oil and probably not use parchment paper because the paper really did not serve me well in this particular recipe. Finally, I would expect prep time and clean up time to be longer than my usual baked chicken recipe. Last but not least, I learnt that even though I did not deep fry anything, due to the amount of time used up in cooking six large chicken thighs, my kitchen heated up by at least three to four degrees, and stayed hot for more than 120 minutes because each chicken thigh took twenty minutes alone. Plus, my kitchen ended up smelling like I had been deep frying food. I do not expect the odour will dissipate for a few days because given the hot and humid weather, I cannot open windows to allow a cool and cleansing breeze to come through. Therefore, I am not likely to air fry chicken again any time soon. I probably will not make this recipe again before November in order that weather will be cool enough to open windows to allow a breeze to come in and clear out the fried food odour. In parting, I would say that this is a tasty recipe and will turn out better if you bread and cook in small batches. Even in an air fryer, this recipe takes quite a long time to prep, cook, and clean up afterward---much longer than I anticipated. Your mileage may vary, but I hope my experience helps at least some of you to avoid the same mistakes I made today. Cheers!

Thanks!

thanks im gonna buy the cosori :)

Looks so good

I'm thinking lif getting the corsori dual blaze. Can you use sillicone baskets in them or will they burn, due the second cooking element 🤔? Thank you

It looks delicious

As soon as she said "I got you" I liked and subbed. LOL

very good, original.

Hi Cathy! THANKS for passing on your imitation buttermilk recipe. You truly are the Queen of the Air Fryer! Your pleasant presentation and insights have made your channel a must watch IMHO. Since my last message, I have equipped my kitchen with an Avocado sprayer and I am ready to air fry! Uh oh. Now I have to pick between all of your FABULESSLY FRUGAL recipes. Oh my! 👍😍💖😍👍 😷STAY😷SAFE😷 👁

You make cooking fun and crack me up.😁

Sounds delicious

💐🐰Can t wait to try it!🌼🤗💚

so excited!

❤️❤️❤️ Wow what a taste 👍 Kisses Form Austria Vienna

I have never made fried chicken before. A few days ago I got the Ninja Foodi Digital Air Fry Oven and I'm gonna try this. Tonight I'm trying your ribeye and garlic herb butter recipe. I know it's gonna be great!

Think I'll try replacing the corn starch with potato starch. My husband doesn't like dark meat, so I'll check your archive shows to see what you have that he might like, but someday I am going to treat myself (and use the fry basket as my serving plate as well).

I am making this recipe today. I hope I do it correctly

Doing this for dinner tonight! 🤤

This is great! I avoid fried chicken because of the mess, but this seems doable

You are Amazing 👏💖

I like to cook my chicken in the instant pot first (on the rack) let cool and then do the breading. I get to use my 2 favourite appliances!

When I saw the thumbnail, I ran and to pull drumsticks out of the freezer. Yay!!

Wow 0 dislikes! Awesome. I’m gonna try it out today 😁

This has nothing to do with food, but you have the most gorgeous eyelashes ever. (I keep getting distracted by them every time I start your videos lol!)

I just bought my first air fryer a few weeks ago will do this...

WOW!

Very nice short video👍😋💃🏼🥂

You go girl 😍😍😍

made this tonight. I like the level of spice. I used thighs though so it took about 5 minutes more to cook

Thank u, i can't wait to try it. Will this work with any air fryer? I have a 6 quart ninja foodie

Here's a plastic bag hack for you just put your bag into a plastic pitcher pull top over the top of the pitcher Hey plus if it doesn't stay over the top of pitcher use a rubber band to hold up chicken looks really good💖💖💖💖👍

it's nearly 2am here and I'm getting hungry!!

Great clip. Thanks again for sharing. Going to try it. Where did you get that”Handy Bag Holder”?

I don’t have avocado spray, can I use Pam cooking spray? I am fixing to try your recipe. Thanks

Hi, gotta try this way, if you were doing just wings would you adjust time or temp? X

Hello, I followed your steps to double dredge the chicken and there are spots of flour on the chicken after I air fry the chicken. Do you know what the primary causes of excess flour on the chicken are? I sprayed canola oil spray on all sides of the chicken prior to cooking, so i’m puzzled.

Air fryer channel you say? I'm in!

You are just too flippin' cute and fun to watch, love it. That is some dynamite looking fried chicken you did, just awesome. I have to try this out Cathy!!!! Another one to add to my ongoing list you have provided with. Love your channel so much. Take care my friend. Hugs your way. Claudia

I’m very new to your channel and just subscribed! I got an air fryer for Christmas. This may sound silly, but I can’t tell if you used your air fryer tray or if you put the chicken at the bottom without the tray. When do you use the tray and when not to?

Your lazy approach energizes me!!!😊