Tender frozen chicken breast in air fryer is so easy to make! Great hack if you forget to defrost your chicken but dinner is just minutes away.
Want to make air fryer chicken breast with no breading but forgot to defrost it?? We’ll show you how to make tender frozen chicken breast in air fryer so dinner isn’t ruined! (affiliate links present)
Here are a few resources to start with:
- We have both a Ninja Foodi and this electric air fryer
- You can grab a recipe book here. ?
- Pick up MY cookbook too!
- You’ll find more air fryer recipes here too.
- Join my Foodi Facebook group and/or LIKE our easy air fryer recipes page to get new ideas for meals and snack ideas daily!
We shared how to cook frozen chicken in the Instant Pot but now it’s time to use our other favorite appliance!
Yes this is a healthy air fryer recipe, so if you’re following a keto or low fat diet this will be great. We didn’t use any bread crumbs this time to keep the calories down, and if they’re rock hard nothing is going to stick anyway.
- If you’re looking for something more like air fry chicken with a coating follow this recipe, or the one for homemade breaded chicken tenders.
BUT this basic chicken in the air fryer recipe is great for everyone, even my 11 year old loves it.
- We’re using medium to large chicken breasts found in a bag in your local grocery store freezer. Timing is set for the size and thickness you see here, it may vary slightly depending on the size of your chicken pieces.
Let’s start with putting 2 into your air fryer basket. Then you’ll want to sprinkle with seasonings like garlic powder and anything else you’d normally use.
Ingredients you’ll need to make frozen chicken breast in air fryer:
- Bag of frozen chicken breasts – 2 at a time fit comfortably
- Salt and pepper
- Garlic powder
- Parsley
This is what we sprinkled on before we began to cook the chicken. Add any other dry seasonings you’d like as well.
Steps to follow:
I like to preheat the air fryer but I will admit I don’t always remember to. If you forget don’t worry, the cooking time won’t change a lot. Ideally I do because it creates more of a deep frying crisp on the outsides of my food.
- Now place your frozen chicken into your basket
- Add your seasonings
- Close your basket and set to 360 degrees for 15 minutes
- if your meat is on the smaller side I would set for 12 minutes and check
- always ensure internal temperature of chicken is 165 degrees to be safe
- Allow to rest for 5 minutes before slicing to maintain juiciness and enjoy!
If you’re wondering how to cook other frozen foods, follow and print out our air fryer cooking times chart. That’s how we knew how long to cook our frozen Ninja Foodi sausages and more.
Looking for other Ninja Foodi recipes (or any other air fryer brand you own)
- Try our air fryer stuffed chicken breast tonight!
- Meatballs in an air fryer are easy and another keto low carb meal
- Our air fryer wings recipe gets RAVING reviews with it’s dry rub and crispy skin.
What goes well with chicken?
- Air fryer broccoli is a great side dish
- As well as our air fryer cauliflower
- Or these fluffy air fryer baked potatoes
Hopefully we answered your question of can you cook frozen meat in an air fryer?
- Yes!!
- You can even cook frozen chicken wings in an air fryer too
- It comes out tender and juicy too if you follow the instructions below.
- Next will be frozen chicken wings which we’ve done in an Instant Pot, but will attempt in our air fryer this week and share.
- Here are more air fryer chicken breast recipes.
If your kids are a bit pickier, then throw in some air fryer frozen chicken nuggets for them and enjoy a meal together y’all!
Our air fryer chicken kabobs and air fryer whole chicken recipe are wonderful too.
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Frozen Chicken Breast in Air Fryer
Ingredients
- 2 large chicken breasts frozen, boneless skinless is what was used
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp pepper
- 1/4 tsp garlic powder
- 1/4 tsp parsley flakes
Instructions
- Put frozen chicken breasts in your air fryer basket. Sprinkle ingredients on top evenly between the two of them.
- Close and cook at 360 degrees for 15 minutes. Remove and check to ensure they are done (some are thicker than others so may need additional time). Allow to sit for 5 minutes to maintain juices before slicing them.
Lorissa says
What model air fryer do you use and have success with? I’ve heard varying critique. Thanks.
Mary Duke says
Thank you for sharing this recipe. I am a newbie to Air Frying. I do a couple simple things from time to time. Mostly I cook for myself so I purchased a rather small Air Frying for 2. I was just at Barnes & Noble to purchase cook books for Keto and Air Frying. I added your receipt to the Note page of my book.
Have a blessed day. Ms Mary (retired PreK K bilingual teacher)
Vickie Spradlin says
I printed off your pressure cooker frozen chicken wings. Instead of bbq sauce could I use a bottled wing sauce?
Thank you
Vickie