How Long to Cook Potatoes in Air Fryer

This is how long to cook potatoes in the air fryer to fluffy inside and crispy skins. Served as side dishes to main meals paired with sausage or other proteins you’ll love each one for dinner tonight. We have a ton of easy ideas like Ninja Foodi dill red potatoes, with russets, fingerlings and more.

How long do potatoes need cook in the air fryer?

That depends on a few important factors, the main one is how large they are. If left whole this would take the longest, at close to 45 minutes. However if you want them done quick like our air fryer potatoes and onions you can cut the cook time in half! Halved would fall somewhere in between there.

What kind of potatoes can you air fry?

You can cook russets, Yukon Gold, red, baby size or a medley of colors this way. All you need for the basics are olive oil, salt and pepper. Beyond that let your imagination and tastebuds go wild. Load with cheese on top, toss in some bacon bits or stuff with sour cream!

Easy Potato Breakfast Ideas

If you want very little prep work and a healthy choice I would go with our air fryer fingerling potatoes that are just slice din half. We love them all but typically use russets or red more frequently. Let us know below which one becomes your new favorite dish. 😉

• We will start with these dill air fryer red potatoes with eggs usually
• Or make cheesy air fryer breakfast potatoes with sliced kielbasa or brats right alongside these babies.

There are SO Many potato varieties to choose from, they’re in stores year round, and cheap too. If you want something traditional you can certainly make mashed potatoes in the air fryer but we have a lot more favorites here too. That one uses many other ingredients to make them creamy and smooth.

Use them up by making crispy air fryer potato pancakes. But we aren’t done yet!! There are a few other frozen potato dish we love that you may not have heard of yet but you should! It doesn’t have to be the holidays to make a batch of crispy air fryer latkes, just sayin’.

Timing will always vary a bit. Keep a close eye near the last few minutes as fork tender depends on how large they are bite-size. These are the ingredients you’ll need for diced red potatoes cooked this way. If you want to make air fryer fried potatoes you can use any color really but the skin on these stays in tact well and they’re a bit firmer.

What you need to cook potatoes in air fryer

1. Red potatoes diced into bite sized pieces in this case
2. Olive oil will keep the outsides from drying out and crisp it too
3. Garlic salt is a nice touch
4. Salt and pepper to taste at beginning and when done
5. Fresh dill is my favorite add in
6. Oregano
7. Thyme
8. Any other seasonings you love could be added

You just wash, dry, cut, dry again, toss with oil and seasonings and throw those babies right in. Shake at least once to rotate and cook in a preheated machine for 15 minutes in chunks or 40ish if left whole.

How to Cook Potatoes in Ninja Foodi

This multi-cooker isn’t much different than one that just crisps. You will want to remember that the lid that is attached will be used for this hot air cooking method. The air crisp button is used together with that. Other than that all of the instructions remain the same, the cook time doesn’t change.

Is it faster to bake a potato in the oven or in an air fryer?

Now the most popular method of all is probably keeping these whole and making air fryer baked potatoes. Simple but totally delicious. Plain or stuffed with our famous chili recipe they’re always a winner. Timing isn’t much different baked in an oven or air fried but the results are crisper with this method!

What temperature is best?

I like 380 degrees F. most of the time. This will be hot enough to warm from the outside into the very center to get as tender as possible but not too hot to burn the skin before this state can be reached. You do want to rotate them at least once so the hot air can touch every inch of every piece in that basket.

Do you have to soak potatoes before you air fry them?

No, it is not a requirement. In fact if left whole like when you cook sweet potato in an air fryer you wouldn’t want to do that. The reason people do this is to remove some of the excess starch before cooking so that the outsides get as crisp as possible. You would want to do this step when making Ninja Foodi French fries for the crunch.

Another reason I would take this additional step would be when we make a batch of air fryer potato chips. You want those to be as crispy as possible too right??

Now if you want to make these cheesy with bacon and all the goodness, you should make these air fryer Hasselback potatoes next. Left whole but sliced so the timing is a bit less, no soaking necessary here.

I know!!! They look amazing right?? Well they are and as you know if you’ve made these in the oven, you can really load them up with toppings. Bacon and cheddar cheese are our favorites but the list goes on and on as a tasty easy side dish.

How many different kinds of potatoes are there?

There are more than 200 types in the United States. You can even get a medley in a bag. We used these with our roasted potatoes in air fryer recipe. There are: russet, red, white, yellow, blue or purple, fingerling and petite varieties available.

They are all wonderful if you ask me. You can find small bags of these mixed which is what I use to make heirloom potato medley. They’re so good!

Can you cook frozen potatoes in air fryer?

If you’re in a hurry you can also cook a batch of frozen french fries in an air fryer, yes and they are even better than baking in the oven. And air fryer frozen tater tots aren’t homemade, but they are made with them and again so much better this way.

How to Make Air fryer Potatoes Crispy

• Always dry the skins before coating with oil
• If you slice them, dry again to remove excess moisture
• For extra crispy like fries you should soak them for 30 minutes before drying and tossing with oil
• Do you need to preheat an air fryer? Well it is not not going to not work if you don’t but I would suggest that you do.
  • the reason is that the food will cook more evenly if the temperature is steady and not taking time to heat up to begin with.

I kid you not, they’re so much better than on a cookie sheet, Crockpot Sweet Potatoes or in your oven! Crispy doesn’t even describe them, and it takes no time at all to be done and perfect.

If you want to go all out with homemade air fryer french fries you just need potatoes, toss to coat in olive oil, garlic powder, season with salt and enjoy. Serve them with our fry sauce recipe, they go with anything!

How to air fry potatoes with Spam

Don’t curl your nose up on this one until you’ve tried it!! This meat is quite popular in Hawaiian dishes and eaten in small amounts with this favorite veggie is really tasty! If you want to add some meat, we made air fryer spam and potatoes it may become your new favorite YUM. Kid you not it is delicious.

1. Can of SPAM
   1. sliced like you see above
   2. there are many varieties out there, this is the traditional style
2. 4 medium potatoes
   1. we used russets
   2. diced as you see above
3. Olive oil
4. Garlic salt
5. Basil
6. Oregano
7. Salt and pepper to taste

Best results are made with almost all of these when you shake the basket half way or a third of the way through your air frying cook time. Like roasted potatoes may cook for 15 minutes but should shake every 5 minutes to get them crispy all over.

How to air fry potatoes and sausage

If kielbasa is more your style, follow our easy air fryer sausage and potatoes recipe too! I like a mixture of “regular” and spicy so you get a little heat, but it isn’t overwhelming. You will need;

1. Your air fryer basket
   1. remember to always keep it to one layer and not overlap ingredients
2. Pre cooked sausages or kielbasa
3. Yellow or white onion
4. Potatoes
   1. red or russet are great, diced
5. Olive oil
6. Minced garlic
7. 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
8. Salt and pepper
9. Could add cajun seasoning or Sriracha powder for heat

You’ll love air fryer mashed potato balls too.

Have you ever thought of making frozen pierogies in air fryer? Unsure how to get them still tender on the inside but a bit crispy on the outside? We have the trick to doing just that! Filled with mashed potatoes, OH MY.

Why we love cooking potatoes in a Ninja Foodi air fryer

• It’s a bit quicker, most take under 20 minutes to cook!
• A great way to make a fast meal your whole family will surely love.
• This food is naturally gluten free which is great in case that’s a need. 
• Alter any seasonings to ones of your choice to make each bite tender on the inside and crunchy on the outside. That is what’s great about these easy air fryer recipes.

What are you waiting for?? Grab some petite taters at your local grocery store and choose which one you want to start with. This list will give you a bunch of options. You can even make something in your pressure cooker at the same time like Instant Pot potato salad and enjoy a few at the same time. Let us know if you make anything else we should try next.