Let the chicken rest for a few minutes and season with some salt and/or serve with your favorite dipping sauce (I like serving mine with honey mustard). When finished, the chicken should be cooked through and the panko crumbs on the outside should be golden brown and crispy. Overcrowding can lead to the chicken not being as crispy or cooking as evenly.Ĭook the chicken for 20-25 minutes, turning halfway. Try not to overcrowd the air fryer and cook in batches if necessary. Once preheated, layer the drumsticks into the air fryer basket in a single layer. To cook the panko chicken drumsticks in the air fryer, start by preheating the air fryer to 400☏/200☌. Repeat this process with the remaining drumsticks. Press panko into the chicken to get as much to stick as possible. Lastly, transfer the chicken into the panko bowl and coat with as much of the panko breadcrumbs as possible. Then you want to dredge the chicken in the egg, until fully coated. Start by fully coating a chicken drumstick in the flour mixture. Mixing wet and dry will cause layers of crumbs and flour to form on you fingers. When crumbing, it is best to keep one hand for handling wet parts of the process and one hand for handling dry parts of the process. Spices don’t mix into the panko particularly well (and panko itself doesn’t have much flavor) so this is one of the best ways to add extra flavor to the dish.įill the second bowl with the beaten egg and the third bowl with the panko breadcrumbs. You will need 3 separate bowls (or plates) that are large enough to fit a drumstick in.įill the first bowl with the flour, salt and pepper, and any other spices you want to add to the chicken. There are 3 stages to the crumbing of the chicken drumsticks: flour, egg, and panko. This is because it gets really crispy really easily and doesn’t absorb as much oil as normal breadcrumbs. Panko is ideal for using in an air fryer. Unlike normal breadcrumbs which are quite fine, panko is larger, lighter and crispier. Panko is a type of breadcrumb that originated in Japan. These chicken drumsticks are amazingly crispy thanks to the panko combined with the air fryer! What is panko? They avoids all the mess of trying to fry the chicken in oil which makes them healthier in the process. Any of these will work, you can just use whatever you have on hand or whatever is on sale at the grocery store.Crispy panko crumbed chicken drumsticks really easy to cook in the air fryer. For a juicier chicken, you can use a boneless, skinless thigh, sliced and pounded thin. You can also use chicken tenders, I just don’t like deveining them. This helps to make them even more crispy!įor this Air Fryer Chicken Tender recipe, I actually used chicken breasts, sliced and pounded thin.
Panko breadcrumbs come from Japanese cuisine, and they are much flakier and crispier than traditional breadcrumbs. Panko Breadcrumbs: These breadcrumbs are a GAME CHANGER when you are making Air Fryer Chicken Tenders. Do NOT use regular breadcrumbs for this recipe.
You can get that crispy texture quicker, and with way less oil! There are a few other things that make these tenders stand out: This is why I love this recipe and using an Air Fryer. What to Serve with Air Fryer Chicken TendersĮven though I love crispy, crunchy chicken tenders, I don’t love it when my whole house smells like oil.
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