Tasty Air Fryer Honey Mustard Chicken Breasts (Wrapped In Foil)

I’ve been experimenting lately with air frying chicken breasts wrapped in foil packets. It’s the perfect way to ensure the chicken breast stays lovely and juicy as well as giving you the opportunity to test out plenty of different marinades and flavours.

Read on to see how to cook honey mustard chicken breast in an air fryer.

What You Need

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• Chicken Breasts – as many as you need/can fit in the air fryer basket. You can use boneless chicken thighs if you prefer.
• Runny Honey – I used 1 tbsp of runny honey per chicken breast.
• Dijon Mustard – I used 1/2 tsp per chicken breast.
• Garlic Powder – I used 1/2 tsp of garlic powder per chicken breast.
• Olive Oil – I used 1/2 tsp of olive oil per chicken breast.
• Salt and pepper to season according to taste.
• Foil – enough to wrap each chicken breast individually and form ‘packets’ around them.
• Air Fryer – this recipe will work with any air fryer.

Preparing and Cooking It

The following quantities are based on air frying two chicken breasts, if you want to cook more or less just adjust the amounts accordingly. The first thing you need to do is mix the honey, mustard, olive oil and garlic powder in a bowl.

Next, lay out the foil pieces and lay a chicken breast on each one. Brush some marinade on each chicken breast, on both sides.

Then pour the remaining marinade over each chicken breast, making sure the liquid doesn’t run off the edge of the foil (you’ll need to fold the foil over into a packet quickly).

Fold the foil over lengthways to cover the chicken breast and then again at the ends, folding the ends over so that there are no gaps.

If the foil isn’t folded over tightly enough the juice from the chicken will come out during the air frying process – and we want all the lovely honey and mustard sauce to pour over the chicken at the end!

Transfer the chicken foil parcels to your air fryer basket. Switch the air fryer on to 180°C and cook for 20 minutes.

I didn’t turn the chicken over halfway through – mainly because I forgot to! – but the chicken was perfectly cooked through. If in doubt, use a thermometer to check the internal temperature. The chicken should be 75°C.

Very carefully remove the foil packets from the air fryer basket. You will need to use oven gloves or those little silicone gloves to pick them up. Take extra care as the liquid inside will be very hot, and remember, we want to keep it all inside the foil – you’ll also appreciate not getting it all over your air fryer basket too!

Transfer them to a bowl and unwrap the foil to remove it. There should be quite a lot of liquid that you can use to pour over the chicken and any side dishes you are serving with it.

You can serve the chicken breasts whole, or slice them up into strips.

There are plenty of other flavours you can experiment with when cooking chicken breasts in an air fryer – or you can keep it simple and air fry them with just a little seasoning.

I hope you enjoy this recipe, let me know in the comments if you end up making it!

If you like this recipe check out some more of my air fryer chicken recipes.