Best Air Fryer Fish Recipes

Tons of breaded air fryer fish recipes and more with no breading at all. Healthy and crispy dinner options your whole family will love night after night. All different kids of air fryer fish ideas you could ever imagine.

Ninja Foodi Fish Recipes

I have all the things here. We love easy things like air fryer tuna melt sandwiches, and extras like how to make white sauce for fish tacos so you can serve them up every single week.

• Seriously we could make air fryer fish every day of the week!!
• Here we will share how to cook cod, tilapia, salmon, shrimp tacos and more.

You see I was born in Hawaii so needless to say I ate it a lot as a really young child. It was just normal and I thought everyone else loved things out of the sea too. Not always the case but when you love it you are obsessed like us. Now that I found the best method ever to keep it fork tender but with a little crisp I’m here to share with y’all.

Healthy Air Fryer Fish Recipes

You can make them dipped in an egg mixture, then in bread crumbs before laying them into the air fryer basket. We did actually figure out how to coat with a wet batter recently though. Now beer battered fish in air fryer is here.

OR just brush on olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper like our air fryer tuna steak. Either way all these air fry fish recipes are great. We do the same thing when we buy one that hasn’t been filleted at all too. If you haven’t tried an air fryer whole fish yet it is pretty amazing.

Ninja Air Fryer Fish Recipes

How to Cook Breaded Fish in an Air Fryer

Before jumping right into the delicious Air Fryer Fish recipes, it’s time to dig a little bit deeper into what an air fryer is and does. You can of course just pop it in there with a bit of olive oil and seasonings as is. If you want it extra crispy you can dip in a whisked egg and then press into breadcrumbs or Panko. Takes the same amount of time either way.

Air Fryer Fish Recipes Weight Watchers

You would want to leave it with no breading if you wanted less calories. Why do I love using these kitchen appliances so much? OMG does everything just turn out so good.

• It quickly cook your food by circulating hot air around without the need of any oil. So instead of deep frying and submerging into fat laden oil you can just spritz your air fryer crab cakes and they’ll become just as crispy.
• Every awesome recipe comes out crispy and perfectly cooked each and every time

Fish flakes easily with a fork and is tender on the inside with the crunchy outsides I love. You don’t even need much breading like our air fryer catfish. Leave “naked” for low carb keto diets, you can do it all, check out how to cook sockeye salmon for them all.

• Most recipes only take 8-10 minutes total!

Do you need any more reasons than that? If you’re looking for the perfect Air Fryer to buy, here’s the one that we have and love!

Ninja Foodi – It’s like a combination machine where an air fryer combines with a pressure cooker that can knock out literally any recipe. 

• New to the air fryer world? Here’s a  free Ninja Foodi cookbook to help you find a ton of simple air fryer recipes without having to search too hard. 
• Plus, if you’re here for recipes, you’ll want to bookmark this page with Ninja Foodi recipesthat you’re certain to love as well.

Do you have to put oil in your air fryer?

The short answer, no. You don’t. You can if you want, but you don’t have to. Why? because the hot air circulates to cook your food, oil free. I do however use olive oil spray to ensure the food doesn’t stick to the basket but that is it. It also crisps the outside like with air fryer walleye with breadcrumbs.

Frozen Fish in Air Fryer

Can you bake in an air fryer?

Absolutely. Didn’t I mention that this kitchen appliance can do anything? You can bake desserts etc with ease. 

What foods can you cook in an Air Fryer?

There are so many options. You can cook:

• Beef
• Chicken
• Fish
  • you can even cook air fryer frozen fish
  • or air fryer scallops, air fryer oysters….I’m totally serious….
  • and we share lots of shrimp versions like this air fryer bang bang shrimp and more
• Vegetables
• Dessert
• Side dishes like air fryer hushpuppies that are great with any of these choices

You can really cook all types of frozen foods in this thing right out of the package like our air fryer frozen crab cakes and more.

If you want to cook it, you can! Seriously. It’s that simple.  While I feel like so many people tend to focus on cooking chicken, beef, and pork, what about all the amazing fish fillets and meals out there just waiting to be cooked?

We love to eat fish in our household, so I can vouch that the air fryer knows what it’s doing when cooking fish. These simple recipes are great to have on hand to change up your weekly meal plan! 

• Many of these can be found on our low carb air fryer recipes list too.

Air Fryer Fish Recipes

• Best Air Fryer Salmon Cakes– Keto friendly and delicious? You’ll never want to go back to eating fish any other way after this air fryer recipe. 
• Air Fryer Southern Fried Catfish– Your taste buds won’t believe the flavor of this air fryer fish recipe. Its southern cooking meets crunch, and it’s phenomenal. 
• Use any fillets to make air fryer fish tacos.

Our air fryer calamari is a fun appetizer or side dish too.

If you’d rather use low carb Panko breadcrumbs we have an air fryer fried fish recipe here you can try too.

These are all on our list of few ingredient recipes, so if you want an easy meal you’ll be set.

• These Air Fryer Salmon Crouquettes are a simple and delicious way to eat salmon.
  • Dip them in some tartar sauce and voila!
• Cajun Crispy Golden Air Fryer Fish– I just can’t describe the “crunch” in enough detail. You have to try it. 

Now if you want a quick snack, or your kids just love finger foods, make air fryer fish sticks some day. They’re WAY better than in the oven because it’s a FAST way to make them really crispy and crunchy.

How to cook Shrimp in Air Fryer

Crispy Air Fryer Fish and Chips– Who doesn’t love the classic dish of fish and chips? And when your air fryer can cook it for you, you let it!

• Air Fryer Baja Fish Tacos– Just when you thought you’d tried fish tacos every which way possible…the air fryer stood up and said, “treat your taste buds with a bite of this!”
• You can use any sort of protein inside these babies, like air fryer mahi mahi, tilapia, catfish or something else you love.

Use cod, tilapia, salmon, catfish or any other type you love.

Crispy Cod Nuggets– Think of them like chicken nuggets…but fish. Bite-sized but full of taste. 

• Zesty Ranch Air Fryer Fish Fillets – Who doesn’t love the taste of ranch with their fish fillets? 
• We love Air Fryer Fish Tacos with taco sauce. They’re one of those dinners that are just packed full of so much flavor. 

Want something that will blow them out of the water?? Use taco seasoning (you heard that right) in with your breadcrumbs to make air fryer fried shrimp tonight.

See? What did I tell you! There are so many great air fryer fish recipes that you have to give them all a try.

But don’t stop there… If you’re on the hunt for other pressure cooker fish recipes you can try these too

• Try these 2 ingredient Air fryer bagels
• For a low carb option, make these Air fryer breakfast stuffed peppers
• Our Air Fryer Cinnamon Rolls and sticky buns are to die for

When it comes to using your air fryer, you’ll find out that you love the ease of use. And the other great part?

Cleanup is a breeze as well. Even if you use a little bit of oil, it’s still hardly anything to have to worry about cleaning up. 

• Some toaster ovens are now including an air fry function!

What are the benefits of using an air fryer?

There are a ton of great benefits to using an air fryer, but here are some of the top ones:

• Saves time
• saves energy
• creates less mess
• Cooks food with less grease and oil

And if those benefits aren’t enough, trust in your taste buds to show you the way. Cook up one or two (or all 15!) of these delicious air fryer fish recipes and see which one you like best! 

Truth be told, you may not be able to choose!

• Then try our Instant Pot fish recipes and you’ll be set for the month!