20+ Easy Air Fryer Indian Recipes (2024)

What is an Air Fryer?

An Air fryer is a great kitchen appliance that can air fry, bake, roast, broil, dehydrate, and reheat foods. You can cook fresh or frozen food.

The air fryer has a heating element that radiates heat, and a fan helps to circulate hot air around the food, allowing the use of little oil, making the food crispier and healthier without the guilt of snacking on deep-fried foods.

Fromcrispy French Fries, Samosasto Onion Bajji, there’s so much to love about crispy air fryer foods. Besides savory Indian food, you can also make desserts like Gulab Jamun (fried dough balls), Gujiya (Indian Sweet Pastry), or Cookies in the Air fryer. You can also reheat leftover or warm food and much more.

I’m excited to share some of my favorite tried and authentic vegetarian Indian air fryer recipes, that your whole family will love. They also include vegan, gluten-free, keto, and low-carb recipes.

Here are 20+ Easy Air Fryer Indian Recipes

Air Fryer Snacks/Appetizer Recipes

Air Fryer Tandoori Broccoli

Tandoori Broccoli Tikkais a fusion appetizer recipe prepared by marinating broccoli in a spiced yogurt-based marinade and grilled in an air fryer or oven.

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Sabudana Vada Recipe (Deep Fry, Air Fryer and Appe Pan)

Sabudana Vada's are crispy and crunchy Sago Fritters made with soaked sago (tapioca pearls), boiled potatoes, coarsely ground peanuts and few other ingredients.

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Tandoori Aloo - Air Fryer/ Oven/ Grill

Tandoori Aloo Tikka is a delicious Indian appetizer were baby potatoes, bell peppers, and onion are marinated in a combination of yogurt and spices, threaded onto skewers, and cooked.

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Air Fryer Tandoori Gobi

This Tandoori Gobi is a delicious, popular Indian style tandoori snack where Gobi (Cauliflower) florets are marinated in a spiced yogurt-based marinade, and grilled in the air fryer, oven, stove-top pan or grill.

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Air Fryer Cauliflower Recipe

These Crispy Air Fryer Roasted Cauliflower are so easy and delicious. They can be enjoyed as a perfect side to any dish, healthy snack/appetizer.

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Air Fryer Banana Chips (Plantain Chips)

Crispy homemade Healthy Plantain chips / Banana chips made out of raw bananas that are healthier, made with very little coconut oil in the air fryer

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Air Fryer Frozen Spring Rolls

Learn how to cook frozen spring rolls in the air fryer. This easy appetizer takesless than 15 minutes from the freezer to the plate, with a perfectly crispy texture without deep frying.

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Tandoori Tofu Tikka - Air Fryer/ Oven/ Grill/ Tawa

Learn how to makeTandoori Tofu Tikka recipe 4 Ways ( in The Air Fryer, Oven, Grill, Tawa)with a few easy steps.

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Air Fryer Frozen Samosa

Learn how to cook frozen samosa in the air fryer. This easy appetizer takesless than 15 minutes from the freezer to the plate, turns out delightfully crispy, and cooks to perfection.

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Beetroot Tikki|Beetroot Cutlet

Beetroot Tikki is a delicious ,healthy combination of beetroot, potatoes, roasted peanuts and some spices and serve as a healthy appetizer or a tea time snack for your kids.

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Vegetable Rice Cutlet from Left Over rice (Rice Tikki)

Vegetable Rice Cutlet Recipe are rice cutlets made with boiled rice blended with mix vegetables.

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Crispy Corn Pakoda (Corn Fritters)

Corn Pakora is an easy recipe in which deep-fried crisp corn fritters are made with chickpeas flour, sweet corn, and regular Indian spices.

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Masala Peanuts - (Microwave, Air fryer)

Masala Peanuts is a spicy and crunchy snack coated in chickpea flour, rice flour , peanuts and few spices which serves as wonderful tea time snacks.

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Paneer Popcorn Recipe

Paneer Popcorn is a quick ,healthy lip-smacking snack made with fresh paneer (indian cottage cheese), mixed with spices and herbs and tossed with breadcrumbs to give that extra punch to taste

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Barbeque Nation Style Cajun Potatoes

Barbeque Nation Style Crispy Cajun Potatoes with spicy Cajun mayonnaise dip is a great and easy appetizer for small parties or get-togethers.

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Crispy Masala French Fries Recipe (Potato French Fries)

ThisCrispy Masala French Fries is an Indian stylespicyPotato French Friesrecipethat can be easily made at home by mixing thinly cut potatoes with corn starch and few spices.

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Air Fryer French Fries

These homemade air fryer French Fries are delicious, crispy and crunchy tastes just like your favorite restaurant but by using far less oil.

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Air Fryer Potato Wedges

This Homemade Potato Wedges recipe is delicious, crispy on the outside, and soft on the inside made in the Air Fryer with very little oil.

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Veg Chilli Cheese Toast (Chilli Cheese Toast on Tawa)

Chilli Cheese Toast on Tawa as its name suggest is a toast made from cheese, chilli and some veggies spread on top.

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Bread Pizza without Oven (Tawa Bread Pizza)

Quick, easy and delicious Bread Pizza made without Oven

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Air Fryer Indian Bread Roll

This crispy Air Fryer Indian Bread Roll stuffed with spicy potato filling is a delicious snack that you can savor any time of the day.

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Maddur Vada | Maddur Vade

Maddur vada (Maddur Vade) is a famous savory snack from Karnataka made of rice flour, semolina and all purpose flour mixed with lots of onions, curry leaves and green chilies and is served with coconut chutney.

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Air Fryer Chana Dal Vada

Paruppu Vadai / Chana DalFritteris a famous South Indian Tea time snack. Here I show you to make these in a healthy version using an Air Fryer.

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Air Fryer Zucchini Chips

These Air Fryer Zucchini Chips are crispy, perfectly seasoned, delicious and a great healthy appetizer or a snack to make when you have zucchini (courgette) in hand.

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Making fresh and crunchy perfectly roasted peanuts is so easy and quick at home in either the air fryer or the oven

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Air Fryer Stir Fry Recipes

Which Air Fryer is Best For Indian Cooking in the USA?

When buying an air fryer for your home kitchen, you may want to think about

• What kind of recipes will you make?
• Budget
• For how many people will you be cooking?
• Air fryer basket, especially the coating, if you want to avoid Teflon (nonstick) coating, then buy accordingly.

While most Indian recipes require a lot of oil, using an air fryer can help you to cut back on the oil by more than 70% than shallow pan or deep frying.

Instant Vortex Plus 6 Quart Air Fryer(Like I use) is great and perfect to cook meals for a family of 4. It comes with a 6-quart square basket capacity, a greater surface area for cooking than regular air fryers, and is highly reliable. It is great for Indian cooking with less oil usage without affecting the taste and texture.

If you are looking for a bigger air fryer oven, then I recommend Cuisinart Air Fryer Toaster Oven and Instant Vortex Pro 9-in-1 Air Fryer, which allows you to cook more food than a smaller air fryer. Like my Instant Pot Recipes, these Air fryer recipes provide hands-off, minimal supervision, and high-flavor meals.

Our Other Top Air Fryer Picks

• My Favorite: Instant Vortex 6-Quart Air Fryer.
• Another Top Pick: Cosori Pro Air Fryer Oven Combo.
• Best Air Fryer Toaster Oven: Cuisinart Air Fryer Toaster Oven
• Best Air Fryer with Dual Basket Air Fryer: Ninja Foodi DualZone Air Fryer.

Frequently Asked Questions

Need some further inspiration? Check out the full range ofAir Fryer Recipes for all occasions. I hope you enjoy it.

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20+ Air Fryer Indian Recipes

Bhavana Patil

A collection of over 20+ best quick and easy Indian Air Fryer recipes including vegetables, paneer and more.