Air Fryer Roast Chicken Dinner

This is my go-to mid-week roast, when I want a nutritious dinner on the table with minimal fuss. Everybody is talking about Air Fryers at the moment, and I really wanted to put ours to the test by seeing if it would make a complete roast chicken dinner, without having to parboil or precook anything- the answer is a resounding… YES! Well… except for the gravy. I guess you could use an air fryer to make the gravy, but it’s easier to do it in a pan, while the vegetables are cooking in the air fryer. And this recipe is all about simplicity. This is a one-pan, easy-to-make, tastes flippin’ delicious dinner, that saves SO MUCH on the washing up.

Don’t want to use a pan at all for making your gravy?

Sometimes life calls for good ole’ Bisto gravy (no, this isn’t a sponsored post). If you want to make this recipe even easier, make up a jug of Bisto (or shop-brand equivalent) gravy in your gravy jug and if you want even more flavour, stir in those cooking juices from cooking the chicken in the air fryer.

Ideas for leftovers

Don’t forget to save any leftover shreds of chicken to make:

Chicken Fried Rice Chicken Ala King 20-minute Chicken Ramen. And boil up the leftover chicken carcass for delicious Homemade stock Chicken soup Or freeze and save until you have more meat bones to make my Three-Bone Soup with vegetables and beans

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