Air Fryer Frozen Green Beans

How to cook frozen green beans in air fryer with no breading instructions are here. Use your Cosori or Ninja Foodi and you too can cook frozen vegetables in air fryer for a quick cheap side dish.

Frozen Green Beans Recipe

This is how to cook frozen green beans in your Foodi or other brand. I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again, it doesn’t matter what you have at home because they all basically work the same. Biggest difference is the size and shape of your basket. Most of the time you want your food to be in a single layer, this doesn’t matter too much.

Since you don’t have breading, like air fryer fried green beans, you can shake the basket to rotate the food. You’re not looking to get them crispy per say like most other recipes but rather just defrost and make them fork tender.

Ingredients

1. Bag of frozen green beans
2. Garlic salt and onion salt are good seasonings

Variations

You literally just buy a bag in the freezer section and use seasonings of your choice. If you want to toss with butter you could add a pat or two the last minute or so to melt. As a Ninja Foodi recipe you could pressure cook for 0 minutes first, then decrease timing to air crisp below for the optimal texture.

with Parmesan

There are two things we have added to the top about 2 minutes before they were done; parmesan cheese and/or butter. They are both great options and simple to create. We have done the same thing with our air fryer frozen broccoli recipe because cheese is king around here.

How to Air Fry Frozen Green Beans

• Lightly spray basket with olive oil spray and pour green beans into air fryer basket.
• Sprinkle seasonings on the top and close the drawer to seal shut so they can essentially steam to defrost and then cook crispy.
• Preheat and air fry for 10 minutes total cooking time.
• Toss basket after minute 5 min.
• Check the texture with a fork to see if they are right, if not add 1 minute until they are
• Remove when they are tender and warmed.
  • We like to toss with butter to the top around minute 7 so it can melt and coat them for added moisture

Enjoy with dips like ranch or fry sauce. If you want to make a main dish with it that is healthy I would suggest frozen cod in air fryer. Buy both rock hard, throw them in and there’s no time thawing necessary.

Quick and easy right?? Cooking time will vary slightly depending on how soft you want them to become and if they are whole or in smaller pieces like you see here. Done in under 15 minutes total though which is a win in our book. Jump to recipe below and let us know what you think.

in Ninja Foodi

In a Foodi they give you the option of pressure cooking foods too which is actually faster. You can follow our Ninja Foodi green beans recipe for that. You could use fresh green beans or frozen with that and the timing wouldn’t change.

There are many other things you can cook this way like air fryer spinach which is amazing. It isn’t for just getting foods crispy, this appliance is a great alternative to your oven and is really handy during the summertime when it’s hot.

Last thing you’ll want to do then is to further heat up your house just to cook dinner. In those times I use all of my countertop appliances, only. Many weeks I won’t use anything other than this, make Instant Pot frozen green beans and slow cooker meals.

How to save leftovers

Because you know I hate wasting food I reheat the next day for lunch. I would do so within 24 hours or the texture will change quite a bit and not for the good. You’ll want to transfer into a Ziploc freezer bag when they are cooled and remove all the air out of that baggie.

Leave in the fridge overnight and reheat the next day in the microwave for a soft texture or slightly crisp up in your air fryer machine again for just about 1 minute at 400 F.

Kids learning to love eating veggies and you need different ways to serve them up? I have a fave that got my girls to go crazy over this one. Make fried green beans with tempura batter on the stovetop sometime. OMG I could eat a whole plate of just these for lunch my friends, seriously.