Our recipe for Ninja Foodi air fryer chicken wings with dry rub are delicious! This is how to get tender meat with crispy skin without ever using your oven! Dry rub air fryer chicken wings can be sauced or not.
Ready to make some Ninja Foodi chicken wing recipe ideas tonight??!! We can eat these tender appetizers as an entire meal really. Sauced or using a dry rub for chicken they’re delicious and packed with protein too. Listed on our roundup of easy Ninja Foodi recipes, you’ll love each bite of these babies.
Can You Cook Frozen Chicken Wings in Ninja Foodi?
You can use the lid that is not attached to make pressure cooker frozen chicken wings to become fall off of the bone and super duper tender. If you want crispy with the lid that is attached you’d use our frozen chicken wings in air fryer timing.
This is fantastic to have if you’ve forgotten to defrost dinner and it’s now 5 o’clock! NO problem I tell you. You’ll have to use the pressure cook function to cook them thru to the center first. Then you will need to use air crisp after that to get the skin crunchy.
You can make these in a Ninja Foodi Grill too. If that is all you have you won’t be able to try to pressure cook them and see the difference but it does have an air fry for this, and grilling function.
Ingredient Notes
You typically can fit about 8 fresh or frozen wings – med. / lg. size in the basket without overlapping.
Most people just like to use 1 bottle bbq sauce, Dipping Sauce for Chicken Wings or teriyaki if you aren’t using the dry rub listed below. If so, you won’t need sauce at all.
Use any seasonings like garlic powder and/or others you love. You can cook these as directed and then make them spicy too. Follow the directions for hot wings in air fryer for those.
Alternatively you can make our air fryer chicken wings with baking powder which will make them as crispy as possible, coating the outside but doesn’t offer much flavor so you’d have to sauce at the end.
Dry Rub
I highly suggest that you use our Dry Rub for Chicken Wings. It is sweet and savory creating a sort of crispy crust along with the skin it is sticking on to and guests go absolutely bananas over the flavor.
Breaded (option)
You can bread the outside with all sorts of things like we did with our cheesy Doritos Crusted Chicken Wings or cook and then sauce when they are done.
Gluten Free
If you need air fryer gluten free chicken wings we have those too. The biggest difference is using Panko GF instead of breadcrumbs.
How Long to Cook Chicken Wings in Ninja Foodi
This go around we are going to use the lid that is attached to air crisp (air fry) which takes about 16 minutes total. If you wanted to use the other lid it takes about the same amount of time with the time it takes to reach pressure but has a very different texture (softer) so take your pick but these are our fave.
Whole Chicken Wings in Ninja Foodi
That depends on their size but typically you are looking at 25-30 minutes. The increase in cook time for Whole Chicken Wings in Air Fryer is because they are much larger with the wingette and drumette attached still. I will say these are a bit harder to eat so they aren’t kept this way often.
Ninja Foodi Chicken Wings Recipe
Equipment
- 1 ninja foodi
Ingredients
- 24 large chicken wings, defrosted or fresh, depending on size time below will vary
- olive oil spray
Dry Rub
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 1.5 tbsp salt
- 1 tbsp garlic salt
- 1 tsp pepper
- 2 tbsp garlic powder
- 1 tbsp chili powder
- 3/4 tbsp paprika
- 3/4 tbsp cayenne pepper, for medium heat, less if you want them mild
Instructions
- Close air crisp lid and preheat Foodi to 400 degrees.
- Pat wings dry with paper towels. In batches of 6-8 pieces (depending on size of wings, enough where they don't overlap inside the air fryer basket), spray batch with olive oil spray and rub on all sides.
- In a bowl mix all dry rub ingredients and pour half inside a freezer bag, add olive oil coated wings into bag and shake so they're well coated.
- Place wings inside air fryer basket without overlapping them.
- Air fry for 8 minutes, then flip to other side and continue cooking at 400 degrees for another 8 minutes or until they're as crispy as you'd like. To make even crispier, lightly spray top again with olive oil spray and continue cooking a few more minutes.
Video
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Other Ninja Foodi recipes you’ll love
Homemade Ninja Foodi chicken tenders and a Ninja Foodi chicken legs recipe are here. Ninja Foodi taco pasta has great reviews too
What should I serve with chicken wings?
There are SO many options for this! This usually depends on whether I am serving them as an appetizer, snack or entire meal. You’ll definitely want dipping sauce for chicken wings but beyond that; Yes…we eat them for dinner pretty often with just celery and carrot sticks and dip.
- Coleslaw goes well with the heat of a chicken wing
- Potato Salad complements this dish with its cool, creamy texture
- Air fryer vegetables are the perfect side dish for chicken wings or any other dinner really
- Macaroni Salad
- Ninja Foodi french fries are the bomb!
Ready for the best 30 minute one pot meal??
Am I missing something? What do we do with the other half of the dry rub ingredients?
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