How to cook perfect jacket potatoes in air fryer – simple step by step instructions for making the BEST air fryer baked potatoes, crispy dark golden skins and fluffy middles! Perfect every time!
Choosing to cook jacket potatoes in the air fryer is a total win-win cooking hack! Here’s why!
- The air fryer takes zero time to warm up! So there’s no wasting energy preheating a whole big oven for just a couple of baked potatoes.
- The air fryer costs less to run than an oven so you’ll be saving money on fuel.
- Air frying jacket potatoes is quick, simple and mess free.
- The air fryer gives the jacket potatoes the crispiest, most delicious dark skins and fluffy middles.
Ingredients For Air Fryer Baked Potatoes
You’ll just need three ingredients to make a basic baked potato, then whatever your chosen toppings are.
- 4 large baking potatoes – you can normally pick baking potatoes up in bags of four at any supermarket
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp salt
How To Cook Jacket Potatoes In Air Fryer
You are going to love how easy this recipe is! Honestly, so simple, you’ll want to eat baked potatoes every night for dinner!
Step One – scrub and dry the potatoes
- Give the potatoes a good wash to remove any dirt or soil from the skins, then dry them really well on kitchen paper.
Step Two – prick the skins
- Use the fork to prick the potato skins all over – this bit is important, it’ll stop the potatoes from bursting as they cook!
Step Three – oil the potato skins
- Add a splash of olive oil to the palm of your hand and rub each potato skin really well with oil so that it’s all coated.
- Then sprinkle the skins with salt.
Step Four – Cook the jacket potato in air fryer
- Place the oiled potatoes into the air fryer basket. Don’t overcrowd the basket and make sure the potatoes are in a single layer.
- Then cook at 170C for 30 minutes. Then turn the potatoes over using tongs so you don’t burn your fingers.
- And then put the air fryer temperature up to 190C and continue to cook for a further 30 minutes or until the skins are crispy and golden and the potatoes is squishy and soft when you squeeze it. (use oven gloves to check!)
Jacket Potato in the Air Fryer
Just the BEST way to cook air fryer baked potatoes – for perfect crispy skins and fluffy middles.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 1 hour
- Total Time: 1 hour 5 minutes
- Yield: 4 1x
- Category: Dinner
- Cuisine: British
Ingredients
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- 4 baking potatoes
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp salt
Instructions
- Give the potatoes a good wash to remove any dirt or soil from the skins, then dry them really well on kitchen paper.
- Use the fork to prick the potato skins all over – this bit is important, it’ll stop the potatoes from bursting as they cook!
- Add a splash of olive oil to the palm of your hand and rub each potato skin really well with oil so that it’s all coated.
- Then sprinkle the skins with salt and rub in.
- Place the oiled potatoes into the air fryer basket. Don’t overcrowd the basket and make sure the potatoes are in a single layer.
- Then cook at 170C for 30 minutes. Then turn the potatoes over using tongs so you don’t burn your fingers.
- And then put the air fryer temperature up to 190C and continue to cook for a further 30 minutes or until the skins are crispy and golden and the potatoes is squishy and soft when you squeeze it. (use oven gloves to check!)
