Perfect air fryer soft boiled eggs are an easy protein packed breakfast cooked in the shell or without in a small dish. If you loved our air fryer hard boiled eggs in Ninja Foodi but want the yolks softer, this is a real game changer.

Air Fryer Soft Boiled Eggs
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Soft boiled eggs air fryer style are great. Get that creamy yolk you love in two different ways with a bit of crisp on the outside if you want. Use your Cosori, Ninja Foodi, AirWave or any other brand to make this easy air fryer recipe. (affiliate links present)

Soft Boiled Eggs in Air Fryer Recipe

If you want to make it the easiest way, just sit them in your basket and cook for the designated cook time below. You can do the same with soft boiled eggs in microwave. Those are great but a bit difficult to peel because of how delicate they are. If you want to enjoy them right out of the machine I would suggest cracking ahead of time and into a small dish.

in Ninja Foodi

We shared how to make these as a Ninja Foodi recipe last year. Those are great if you want the insides firm to eat as is, diced into a potato salad or sliced. To get that loose ooze of yolk there is a trick to it. We will share how to do it perfectly right here.

Soft Boiled Eggs in Air Fryer

It doesnโ€™t matter what brand you might have at home, but the Foodi particular one is a bit different. If you do have one of these pressure cooker and air fryer types you have another choice as well. Since it does have multiple functions you can use the other main one to make them ultra tender pressure cooker poached eggs too.

Ingredients

  • Fresh eggs of course
  • Salt and pepper to taste

Variations

Letโ€™s talk about if you want to make them this second way as you see here below. There are a few benefits to it. One is you can season to begin with so it sticks nicely. A few sprinkles of cheese could be added as well, or finely diced bell peppers. You will need one of the following to do it this way;

Equipment Needed

  1. Use your machine of course
  2. You could use these small silicone muffin cups like you see here.
  3. If you have a small ramekin inside your air fryer basket that would work too.
  4. Any small oven safe dish is great for this one.

With any of these youโ€™ll want some non stick spray for the inside so it slides right out. I like olive oil spray personally, or avocado, but PAM works too.

Ninja Foodi Soft Boiled Eggs

How Long Does it Take to Soft Boil Eggs?

Youโ€™re looking at 7-9 minutes which isnโ€™t too bad. With the preheating timing youโ€™re looking at under 15 minutes from start to finish. In that time you can get your coffee ready, plates out of the dishwasher and yourself settled. Thereโ€™s a printable recipe card at the bottom but hereโ€™s a quick rundown;

Cook Times

  • Soft Boiled Egg in Silicone Cups โ€“ Preheat air fryer for 5 minutes at 300 degrees. Spray inside of silicone cup with nonstick cooking spray.
    • Crack 1 egg per cup and place into the preheated air fryer.
    • Heat for 8-9 minutes at 300 degrees.
    • Remove from cup and enjoy.
  • Air Fryer Soft Boiled Eggs in Shell โ€“ Preheat air fryer for 5 minutes at 300 degrees.
    • Place whole egg(s) into the preheated air fryer and cook for 7 minutes.
    • Remove the eggs and cool air fried eggs in ice bath.

When cooking is complete, in shell, you always want to immediately transfer hot eggs into an ice water bath for 2-3 minutes. Reason for this is to stop the cooking. The longer it stays hot the firmer your yolks will become. When cooled remove from the water, carefully crack the shells and remove and then serve.

How Long Does it Take to Cook Soft Boiled Eggs

How to Cook Soft Boiled Eggs without shell in Air Fryer

  1. Letโ€™s go over how long to cook soft boiled eggs this way below;
  2. Preheat air fryer for 5 minutes at 300 degrees.
  3. Spray inside of silicone cups with nonstick cooking spray.
  4. Crack 1 egg per cup and place into the preheated air fryer.
  5. Air fry for 8-9 minutes at 300 degrees.
  6. Remove and enjoy.

in the shell

The only difference in cook time for these is you decrease to just 7 minutes. You will need a bit of work when done with this method too since the outside cannot be consumed.

Ice bath gets them to room temperature faster, stops it cooking and also makes it super easy to peel the eggs. If not they stick really bad and peel the food with it which is no good. Now this texture wonโ€™t work well to make deviled eggs but are great with air fryer toast so you can dip it inside.

How to Cook Soft Boiled Eggs

Jammy eggs is what some people call these. Kindaโ€™ a fun name in general, who knows where this came from maybe because the insides resemble the texture of jam or whatever. I went with it with my kids so they would try it when they were much younger.

Other Quick Egg Recipes Youโ€™ll Love

This one is pretty fast, kept natural as is. If you wanted to add other ingredients in there with it like our crustless broccoli quiche they are transformed into a complete meal, even for dinnertime. If you do have leftovers they save well if cooked in the shell. When youโ€™re ready to enjoy out of the fridge run under cool water.

Very gently tap the outside all the way around in the center area. Gently peel pieces off bit by bit and add salt and pepper. Another way is to peel right out of the cold water when done and store in a freezer bag. Just make sure nothing gets placed on top since they are very delicate.

Air fryer soft-boiled egg in an egg cup, accompanied by toast slices and a spoon, all elegantly arranged on a white plate.
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Air Fryer Soft Boiled Eggs

By Justine
Perfect air fryer soft boiled eggs are an easy protein packed breakfast idea. Air fried in the shell or in a small dish.
Prep: 5 minutes
Cook: 7 minutes
Servings:

Equipment

Ingredients 

  • 1-4 eggs
  • salt and pepper, to taste
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Instructions 

  • Soft Boiled Egg in Silicone Cups โ€“ Preheat air fryer for 5 minutes at 300 degrees. Spray inside of silicone cup with nonstick cooking spray. Crack 1 egg per cup and place into the preheated air fryer. Heat for 8-9 minutes at 300 degrees. Remove from air fryer and cup and enjoy.
  • Air Fryer Soft Boiled Eggs in Shell โ€“ Preheat air fryer for 5 minutes at 300 degrees. Place whole egg(s) into the preheated air fryer and cook for 7 minutes. When cooking is complete, put hot eggs into an ice water bath for 2-3 minutes. Remove from water, carefully crack the shells and remove and then serve.

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Nutrition

Serving: 1oz, Calories: 31kcal, Carbohydrates: 0.2g, Protein: 3g, Fat: 2g, Saturated Fat: 1g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.4g, Monounsaturated Fat: 1g, Trans Fat: 0.01g, Cholesterol: 82mg, Sodium: 31mg, Potassium: 30mg, Sugar: 0.1g, Vitamin A: 119IU, Calcium: 12mg, Iron: 0.4mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

Additional Info

Course: Breakfast, Snack
Cuisine: American
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About Justine

Justine is the creative mind behind The Typical Mom and The Typical Family on YouTube. She began blogging about easy recipes, budget friendly activities for kids, and fun family travel destinations in September 2012.

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