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Keto air fryer recipes and weeknight dinner get along almost suspiciously well. You get crisp edges, quick cook times, and fewer pans to deal with. More importantly, you do not have to eat plain chicken on repeat until the end of time.
These 20 keto air fryer recipes cover full dinners, game-day snacks, bread substitutes, sides, breakfast, and dessert. Every recipe comes from For Frying Out Loud, so you can pick what sounds good and head straight to the complete ingredients and instructions.
A quick note before you cook
“Keto” and “low carb” can mean different daily targets for different people. Check ingredient labels, especially sauces and packaged foods, and use the nutrition information on each recipe as a starting point for your own needs.
Keto air fryer recipes with chicken
Chicken is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, which is honestly fair. These recipes cover the crispy, cheesy, tangy, and snackable ends of the spectrum. If you want the chicken-only version, the full keto air fryer chicken recipe collection puts seven choices in one place.
1. Keto Air Fryer Fried Chicken
Fried chicken is comfort food for a reason. This version keeps the crispy coating and swaps the usual flour-heavy approach for a low-carb recipe built for the air fryer. Get the recipe.
2. Keto Chicken Parmesan
This easy dinner for two brings the familiar Italian flavors without the traditional breading. It is a solid choice when plain chicken is absolutely not going to cut it. Get the recipe.
3. Keto Air Fryer Chicken Tenders
Crispy chicken tenders are quick, family-friendly, and easy to serve with your favorite low-carb dip. Nobody at the table needs to know they were chosen because dinner needed to happen fast. Get the recipe.
4. Keto Dill Pickle Air Fryer Wings
These wings lean all the way into that salty, tangy dill pickle flavor. They are a good game-day option for anybody who believes regular wings could stand to be a little louder. Get the recipe.
5. Broccoli Cheddar Chicken Poppers
Chicken, broccoli, and cheddar come together in a poppable low-carb meal. They work for dinner, lunch, or the moment you realize finger food is simply more fun. Get the recipe.
6. Cilantro Lime Air Fryer Chicken Thighs
Cilantro and lime bring a bright, savory change of pace to chicken thighs. The recipe is made in the air fryer and gives the chicken section an option without a breaded coating. Get the recipe.
Low-carb dinners and snacks
This is where the comfort food shows up. Pizza, calzones, lasagna, and pizza rolls all made the cut, because eating low carb does not mean staring sadly at everybody else’s dinner.
7. Air Fryer Chicken Crust Pizza
This low-carb pizza replaces the usual bready base with a chicken crust. It keeps pizza night on the calendar while putting protein at the center of the meal. Get the recipe.
8. Keto Air Fryer Calzones
An almond flour and mozzarella base gives these calzones the doughy comfort-food energy that can be hard to find in a low-carb dinner. Get the recipe.
9. Keto Air Fryer Lasagna Bake
Forget the noodles and keep the savory Italian flavor. This lasagna bake is made right in the air fryer and has a very real chance of waking up your inner Garfield. Get the recipe.
10. Air Fryer Keto Pizza Rolls
These savory pizza rolls are low carb, kid-friendly, and designed to reheat well. Make-ahead snacks do not get much more convenient than that. Get the recipe.
11. Keto Air Fryer Scotch Eggs
A hard-boiled egg wrapped in meat already has a lot going for it. This air fryer version keeps the classic idea and makes it fit a low-carb breakfast or snack. Get the recipe.
Keto sides and bread recipes
The sides are usually where a low-carb plan gets boring. Not today. There are fries, tots, onion rings, biscuits, bagels, rolls, and buns here, which feels a little excessive in the best possible way.
12. Air Fryer Cheesy Cauliflower Tots
These cauliflower tots bring plenty of cheese and a fraction of the potato-heavy approach. Serve them as a low-carb side or keep them in the snack rotation. Get the recipe.
13. Air Fryer Jicama Fries
Jicama steps in for potatoes in this lower-carb fry recipe. It is a useful option when you want something fry-shaped beside a burger and lettuce is not emotionally satisfying. Get the recipe.
14. Bacon-Wrapped Onion Rings
White onion rings wrapped in bacon make a simple keto-friendly appetizer. Add a low-carb barbecue sauce if you want another layer of flavor. Get the recipe.
15. Keto Air Fryer Biscuits
Six ingredients and a 10-minute cook time make these biscuits a practical low-carb side when dinner needs something bready next to it. Get the recipe.
16. Keto Air Fryer Bagels
Quick, filling, and made in the air fryer, these low-carb bagels bring some welcome bread energy back to breakfast. Get the recipe.
17. Keto Air Fryer Rolls
These rolls use a few simple ingredients and cook in 10 minutes. Keep them in mind for dinners that feel like they are missing a bread basket. Get the recipe.
18. Low-Carb Air Fryer Buns
Made for burgers and sandwiches, these air fryer buns have 3.3 grams of net carbs each according to the original recipe. Get the recipe.
Keto air fryer desserts
Yes, the air fryer can handle dessert too. That is dangerous information in exactly the way it sounds.
19. Keto Air Fryer Chocolate Cake
This chocolate cake is a quick air fryer dessert built for a low-carb sweet tooth. Chocolate gets the final word, as it should. Get the recipe.
20. Keto Air Fryer Peanut Butter Cookies
Three ingredients and seven minutes of cook time put these peanut butter cookies firmly in the dangerously easy category. Get the recipe.
Which keto air fryer recipes should you make first?
If you need dinner, start with the chicken Parmesan, calzones, or lasagna bake. If this is more of a snack emergency, go directly to the pizza rolls, cauliflower tots, or bacon-wrapped onion rings. And if the air fryer is already on and dessert sounds reasonable, the peanut butter cookies are sitting there with only three ingredients between you and a decision.
New to the machine? The air fryer beginner’s guide, air fryer conversion chart, and air fryer cooking times chart will help with the practical stuff as you work through these keto air fryer recipes.