Ninja Foodi French Fries

Ninja Foodi french fries are easy to make in your new air fryer and pressure cooker machine! Healthy and homemade potato wedges done in no time for dinner.

If you’re new to this machine and how to air fry food you’re in for a real treat here. Fries are just the beginning but something that everyone loves so it is a good place to start.

You kinda’ can’t go wrong with them and even the kids will want you to use it every single day after this. You’ll find more air fryer dinner recipes to make after that.

Excited to get going and anxious to see what all the hype is about? I was too, and always like to share easy step by step directions in case you’re a little anxious at the beginning. 😉

You know me…I wouldn’t recommend anything I wasn’t totally in love with. Seriously, this machine will change the way you cook meals for good.

I will tell you that this new stainless steel electric pressure cooker is a game changer! You won’t need that particular function on this go around because air crisp is the only function necessary.

To begin with let’s chat about what lid you’re going to use. It came with 2 right, so which is which? The one attached is for air frying foods of all kinds.

Ninja Foodi French Fries Recipe

Ok enough of me convincing you because you may have already jumped on the new Ninja machine train and have one sitting in front of you. So here was our first creation in the best air fryer we’ve used thus far. 

This is what you’ll need to make fries in the Ninja Foodi

• Potatoes – let’s go with russet shall we (Leave skins on which make them even healthier. Sliced pretty thin.) You could use fingerling potatoes if you wanted and slice into sticks too.
• Olive oil – again, healthier than vegetable oil – we considered using avocado oil too but will try that next time

The pot has a ceramic coating which is great but for this you’re going to use the air fryer basket it comes with.

I’d highly suggest you leave the skins on so they can hold the pieces together better and provide texture. Larger pieces are easier to hold and typically cheaper but use what you like.

• Seasonings – use what you would typically like on your fries, we are all about Lawry’s over here – it’s the bomb
• We share how to make air fryer baked potatoes here if you want to leave them whole too.

Let’s hear it for air crisp french fries. I’m telling you, you’ll never go back to frozen again after you try these. What is really nice is you can season them as you wish, and even add a bit of heat to them just for fun too.

What are the benefits of using an electric air fryer?

• There is NO need for oil
  • Saves you a ton of money cutting out that ingredient
  • Much healthier for you. Food absorbs quite a bit of oil and no matter what type you use and consuming oil isn’t great
  • Safer since oil splatters. I especially never liked frying when my kids were around, made me nervous
• Your food comes out crispy
  • The texture of food is important in the overall taste. Nobody likes limp fries or chicken strips
• There’s no need to turn on your oven or stovetop

When it is the summertime and you live in 90/100 degree weather that is the last thing you want to do. We lived in the desert for a long time where it was over 100 for weeks at a time, it was miserable. There was NO way I was going to bake anything which made it hard to figure out what to have for dinner.

I sure wish I had one of these babies back then, it would have saved us many nights of just having cereal or sandwiches. Not only does it save you money on your overall energy bill but cooks faster too. Using a small device rather than your oven to crisp something small up is so great.

Why is Ninja Foodi the best air fryer?

1. Ninja Foodi air fryer is a multi function machine with a pressure cooker in it as well
   1. means one machine can serve two purposes which saves space in my kitchen = major win
2. It is easy to clean, enough said
   1. inner pressure cooker pot and air fryer bin have a Teflon coating

The air fryer lid is attached (photo above) which means it’s less likely to get lost.

1. It comes with an additional pressure cooking lid that is separate and works great for that function
2. Air fryer bin is wide and doubles as a pressure cooker accessory
   1. again, dual functions in the kitchen are the best
   2. wide bin enables you to spread food out and make sure everything gets nice and cripsy

The air fryer cook crisp basket doubles as a great Ninja Foodi accessory for pressure cooking a chicken. Holes at bottom allow juices to drip away from the bird, and then finish with a crisp using the air frying function.

Air Fryer French Fries

Next we made this amazing air fryer steak and many others below! There are only a few here. You should bookmark our pages above in the menu bar so you can refer back to them often. Each week I add at least 2 new recipes you can make in this machine so you will never run out of ideas y’all.

For now you can enjoy instructions for these Ninja Foodi air fryer recipes below, let us know which is your favorite.

• Ninja Foodi kale chips
• These air fryer bagels stuffed with cream cheese are great for breakfast too!
• Air fryer fried pickles are the bomb.
• For lunch try our air fryer hot dogs!
• Air fryer chips

Overall cook time will vary depending on how thick your potato slices are. Check the last few minutes until they’re golden brown to your liking.

• Then serve with fry sauce!!

Want to make thicker air fryer potato wedges?? We have a recipe for those too that are crusted with parmesan cheese and all the extra goodness.

Need frozen french fries air fryer instructions?? We have those too. You’ll love these air fryer carrot fries or how to make homemade french fries are here too! Try them all.

They are all great served with a frozen chicken wings for lunch.

They’re better than cooking them in the oven.

• We are totally obsessed with both of these as side dishes or an after school snack!