Air Fryer Easy Everyday
Sam and Dom Milner
Quarto Publishing, £20
You Can Make This Hunter's Chicken Dinner in Your Air Fryer
Warming and delicious, this is the perfect easy dinner
What's not to love about hunter's chicken? This classic dish of chicken breast, wrapped in bacon, smothered in barbecue sauce, and topped with melted cheese is made so easy with the air fryer. We use a silicone container to avoid a big clean up, or you can use paper liners.
Serves
4
Equipment
Air Fryer (Basket/Dual)
Preparation time
5 Minutes
Cooking time
33 Minutes
Ingredients
- 4 medium chicken breasts
- 8 rashers smoked back bacon
- 55g grated mature or sharp Cheddar cheese
- 55g grated mozzarella cheese Salt and black pepper
- FOR THE BARBECUE SAUCE
- 240ml barbecue sauce
- 4 tbsp clear honey 1 tsp garlic purée
- 2 tsp sweet paprika
Method
Put your chicken breasts onto a chopping board and season generously with salt and pepper. Tightly wrap two slices of bacon around each chicken breast, covering it well. Secure the bacon with cocktail sticks or toothpicks to stop it flying off during air frying.
Gently place the bacon-wrapped chicken breasts in the air fryer basket/drawer. Set the temperature to 180C and air fry for 28 minutes, or until the chicken reads an internal temperature of 70C or above.
While the chicken is air frying, add all the barbecue sauce ingredients to an air fryer-safe dish or silicone pan, and mix with a fork.
When the air fryer beeps, remove the chicken from the air fryer and remove the cocktail sticks that have held the bacon in place.
Place the chicken in the dish so that it’s sitting in the barbecue sauce, then sprinkle both the grated cheeses over the chicken.
Air fry the hunter’s chicken at 180C for a final five minutes to melt the cheese and warm up the barbecue sauce before serving.
