Air Fryer Chicken Wings (from Raw & Fresh)
Our air fryer chicken wings recipe does not use any oil at all. We’ll be confident that you’ll be blown away at how delicious these air fried wings are! Add your favorite sauce and you’re ready to party.
Best Air Fried Chicken Wings Recipe
The fatty skin on the chicken wings have plenty of oil already and just enough to cook them crispy in the air fryer. The whole air frying method is amazing at how quick and easy air fried chicken wings are. It’s even easier to devour it all.
The only real effort is seasoning the chicken wings with salt and pepper. Then press a few buttons on the air fryer and within minutes you have the best chicken wings ever.
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How to Cook Crispy Chicken Wings in Air Fryer {No Oil}
- If you full wings, separate them into the drum and flat.
- Season wings with salt and pepper. Add wings to air fryer basket in a single layer. Then Air Fry the chicken wings.
- Do you need an extra coat of oil? We don’t feel that you need to but some folks like to coat their wings with a little oil for a more “crispy” texture. Try both methods and see what works best for you. But if you’re trying to cut back on calories, then you don’t really need the extra oil.
- First Flip : Air Fry then flip the chicken wings.
- Second Flip : Flip the chicken wings a second time. This ensures that the raw wings will be cooked completely.
- Add chicken wings to a bowl, and coat with your favorite sauce if you want. Then air fry one last time for a few minutes. Don’t air fry the sauced wings too long or else the sauce might burn.
- Before serving, serve the wings with the sauce to dip in or just toss the wings with a final coating of sauce.
- All air fried chicken wing recipe details are in the recipe box below that you can print if you want.
Extra Crispy Chicken Wings: Corn Starch Crust Method with Oil Spray
If you want extra crispy crust, then then method might be for you. The corn starch coating cooks crispy and the crust is awesome. But it does need oil spray over the corn starch. Make sure to spray all the corn starch with oil and don’t leave any dry spots. Those dry spots will be super hard and dry, so that’s why you need the oil spray on it. More recipe details in the recipe box below.
Prep for Easy Air Fryer Chicken Wings for Game Day or Super Bowl Parties
Once you have the chicken wings made in batches, you can add whatever sauce you like. If you’re looking for a delicious and quick recipe for Game Day or Super Bowl chicken wings, this is it! Seriously, you can totally be a chicken-wings-making-machine by having all your sauces ready.
- Prepare the wings the night ahead by cutting the wings to size.
- Make or prepare all the sauces you want to serve them with at least a day ahead.
- When you’re ready to serve, just season the wings, then air fry them according to the instructions below.
- Within minutes you’ll have fresh and hot wings to enjoy. Cook in batches if needed.
- You might need two air fryers because you probably won’t be able to keep up at a Super bowl party. Everyone will be devouring these so fast but clean up will be so easy for you. It’s a game changer!
Air Fryer Chicken Wings
Ingredients
- 2 pounds (907 g) chicken wings
- Kosher salt , or sea salt, to taste
- black pepper , to taste
- garlic powder , optional
Optional – For Extra Crispy Corn Starch Crust
- 1/4 cup (30 g) corn starch , or as needed
- oil spray , as needed
Equipment
- Oil Sprayer optional
Instructions
- If you have whole wings, separate them into the drum and flat. If needed, pat dry the chicken wings. Season with salt, pepper, and optional garlic powder.
- For oil-free version, place in even layer in air fryer basket/tray. Follow air fry instructions below. For Extra Crispy Crust, follow optional steps for corn starch crust.
For Extra Crispy Corn Starch Crust
- Add seasoning to the wings then lay them in single layer on a plate or cutting board. Sprinkle cornstarch over the wings on both sides.
- Liberally spray wings evenly with oil spray so that all the cornstarch is coated in oil. There should be no dry white clumps of cornstarch or else they will cook hard and dry.
- Place the coated wings in your air fryer basket or tray/rack.
Air Fry
- Air Fry wings at 400°F/205°C for 20 minutes minutes or until cripsy-looking and nearly cooked through.
- Flip the wings and Air Fry at 400°F/205°C for additional 5-10 minutes or until wings are fully cooked and crispy.
- If desired, sprinkle with salt & pepper or toss /serve with your favorite sauce. Serve warm. For a more caramelized sauce, see next optional step.
- Optional: If using a sauce, toss with enough sauce to coat the wings, then Air Fry at 400°F/205°C for another 2-3 minutes for caramelize the sauce onto the wings. Serve warm.
Notes
- No Oil Necessary. The wings have enough fat in the skin to crisp up nicely on their own.
- Shake several times for even cooking.
- Don’t overcrowd fryer basket.
- If using a sauce, it is added in just at the end, otherwise it often burns before the chicken wings are cooked.
- Recipes were cooked in 3-4 qt air fryers. If using a larger air fryer, the recipe might cook quicker so adjust cooking time.
- If cooking in multiple batches, the first batch will take longer to cook if Air Fryer is not already pre-heated.
- Remember to set a timer to shake/flip/toss the food as directed in recipe.
If your air fryer is preheated or if you are cooking multiple batches, you may need to reduce timing by a few minutes (unless preheating is called for in the recipe).
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Why Did the Chicken Wings Burn and are still Raw?
It’s perhaps because your air fryer temperature was too hot. Some air fryers are smaller and the heating element is closer to the food, so it’s easy for the wings to burn and still be raw inside. Or maybe you just added too many wings in the air fryer basket. Solution for this is the next time you air fry chicken wings, reduce the heat and turn the wings 3 times. This will help the wings cook evenly without being exposed too long on one side and burn.
More Air Fryer Chicken Wing and Corn Recipes:
- Here’s –> How to Air Fry FROZEN Wings (breaded, pre-sauced).
- Keto Air Fryer Chicken Wings with Crispy Parmesan Crust RECIPE HERE.
- Buffalo wings in the air fryer
- Air fryer corn on the cob
- Parmesan Garlic Corn on the cob
- How about air frying frozen chicken tenders, nuggets and other munchies? All frozen food info is here.
Great Chicken Wing Sauce Recipes:
- Sticky Honey Garlic sauce for wings is super popular
- Sriracha chicken wing sauce is for spice lovers!
- this air fried buffalo wings recipe as originally published in 2019 and republished in 2021 with updated photos.
27 Comments on “Air Fryer Chicken Wings (from Raw & Fresh)”
great can’t wait to try it
What about reciepes for the power xl 10 qt air fryer pro
Hi Karen, all our recipes work in the Power xl 10 qt air fryer. But timing will be slightly different. So we suggest making a small batch first to see what timing works best for your specific model and preferred texture. Thank you!
Not as crispy as I thought:(
Really loved how easy this was to make. Definitely will coming back to this recipe.
I’m making this for football Sunday. I can’t wait.
Perfect instructions for these wings. Followed them and they came out so great.
Some buddies and I did a hot sauce challenge with a bunch of chicken wings. This recipe seriously saved us so much time in cooking a whole lot of chicken wings. Thanks a lot!