Crispy breaded cucumber chips are so easy to make and a great way to eat vegetables as a Ninja Foodi snack. Vegetarian, with breadcrumbs, packed with flavor and crunch.
Ok, these air fryer cucumber chips are our latest obsession! Our favorite green vegetable fried (but not really) with a crispy outer layer of YUM in no time. The perfect low fat snack even my kids love so we added it to our list of easy air fryer recipes for you to try too.
Very similar to our air fryer zucchini chips they just use a different veggie as the main ingredient obviously. Slicing them thick will keep a bit more texture and oomph to them. Very thin will make them very crispy more like potato chips.
Ninja Foodi Cucumber Chips
We made these in our Cosori and Ninja Foodi but they could be deep fried too. If you want to try the latter, this coating or our tempura batter would work too. You cannot use a wet dip in an air fryer basket though.
Tips: My Favorite models are the Cosori or making Ninja Foodi recipes with the lid that is attached.
It is best practice to put food into a hot basket. This is how to preheat air fryer first before adding your food so it becomes as crispy as possible. For best results, here’s a printable free air fryer cooking time chart here for your fridge.
We first baked kale chips in the oven a few years back and got hooked. Seriously, even my girls would ask me to make these over and over again. When I got this hot air machine I knew I could make things like this much easier and faster…so we got to experimenting.
How Long to Cook Cucumber Chips in Air Fryer
It doesn’t take very long to do bread these air fryer snacks and get them crunchy like sweet potato chips in air fryer. Once you have a few bowls ready with your flour, breadcrumbs and egg it’s just a matter of coating each piece.
I do like preheating the machine for 5 minutes ahead of time. They come out crispier if you cook at the same temp. the whole time. Then for breaded you want about 8 minutes in the machine until as crispy as you’d like.
Cucumber Chips without Breading
You can make these two different ways. Either way slice cucumbers thinly with a sharp knife. If you want to use a dehydrator or air fry them without any coating I’d soak them in vinegar first for 15 minutes. Then sprinkle on some sea salt, cook as directed until crispy and re-season with salt and pepper to taste when done which will only take about 3 minutes.
In the oven. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper to cook this way. Lay them down in one layer and preheat to 255 degrees F. This way takes a lot longer, 2 hours but never the less will make great baked cucumber chips you’ll love too.
Now let me show a few photos of how these were done in our hot air circulating machine. The same method is used for just about anything else that is battered and “fried” in an air fryer.
You could slice like our air fryer pickles and make them a different shape too if you wanted too. Larger will take longer as far as cook time goes but any shape would work.
Ingredient Notes
You will want to start with thick fresh slices of cucumbers. You can use any variety you like. There are the traditional ones you see as well as hot house grown that are skinnier and really long. We like them both.
We are going to bread them with Italian seasoned breadcrumbs and a bit of flour. You could use Panko too but the coating won’t be as thick, your choice.
To get the coating to stick you will want a whisked egg in a bowl. The only alternative that seems to work well would be to brush outsides with mayonnaise if you need an egg-free option.
And some olive oil spray or some kind of non stick cooking spray is a must. We like to serve them with our copycat Lawsons chip dip at the end.
Tips for Success
The easiest method to get a really nice crunchy coating is to first lay on a few paper towels once sliced. This is the most important step to eliminate the liquid on the outside. Then the pattern is flour, egg, crumbs….and you keep going until the basket is full.
Even though this is a dry coating essentially it still might stick a bit so it’s best to spray the basket with non stick spray. If you are making multiple batches spray again in between each time. This will help with the aggravation later when you are cleaning up. This is what you’ll want to get out:
Cucumber Chips Recipe
Equipment
- air fryer
Ingredients
- 1 large cucumber, sliced about 1/4" thick
- 1/4 cup all purpose flour
- 1 large egg, at room temperature
- 1 upc Italian breadcrumbs
- 1 pinch salt, to taste
- 1 spray olive oil, to crisp outsides
Instructions
- Slice cucumber. Lay on paper towels to remove moisture from the outsides.
- In a bowl combine breadcrumbs with a sprinkle of salt and pepper. In another whisk your egg and in a third pour in your flour (you can season this too).
- Dunk each piece in the flour, then the egg, then coat with the breadcrumbs.
- Preheat air fryer to 350 degrees for a few minutes, then spray basket with olive oil spray and lay coated pieces inside in a single layer.
- Cook for about 8 minutes flipping them over halfway thru. Remove when as crispy as you'd like. You can get them extra crispy by spraying olive oil spray on top 2 minutes before cook time is complete.
Video
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Ok so there are two that make veggies delicious. Air fryer kale chips and spinach chips are like seriously amazing choices. Neither of these use any sort of breading so they, and our air fryer jicama fries, are keto and low carb options. They may become your favorite healthy snack too.
I am so going to use this recipe on my solid green tomatoes!
Great idea let me know how they turn out