Roast potatoes are our weekly treat to have alongside our Sunday roast. We always do them in the oven, which if I’m honest, takes forever. Admittedly we do have a bit of an ancient oven which likely isn’t the most efficient.
So, I was really keen to see if we could make tasty roast potatoes in the air fryer. I knew I had less space to play with, and I also wanted to use as little oil as possible; without losing out on the lovely crispy on the outside, soft on the inside, roast potatoes we are used to.
I made these in a Philips Air Fryer, so one of the smaller air fryers. And I needed to make enough to feed 4 people (2 adults and 2 children). I used 2 medium sized potatoes per person (Maris Piper), so 8 in total. I used just 1 tbsp of olive oil which was enough to crisp them up to taste like the roasties we know and love!
The key to making these work in the air fryer, particularly a smaller sized air fryer, is making really small potatoes. This helps us to fit more in as well as ensure they cook quickly enough. You can make larger potatoes, but you will need to increase the cook time.
I cooked these at 180C/350F for 25 minutes. Depending on your air fryer, and what size you cut your potatoes, you will might need to adjust the time. As always, check on them at regular intervals to see how quickly they are cooking. Also, make sure you give them a little shake at various intervals to move them about in the basket a bit.
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Simply The Best Air Fryer Roast Potatoes!
Ingredients
- 8 medium potatoes (Maris Piper)
- 1 tbsp olive oil
Instructions
- Preheat airfryer to 180C/350F.
- Peel and chop up potatoes. The smaller you cut them up the quicker they will cook.
- Spray/brush with 1tbsp of oil - make sure they are all coated.
- Put potatoes in air fryer basket and slide into the air fryer.
- Cook for 25 minutes. Check on them at regular intervals and give them a good shake about.
Turned out absolutely brilliant was a bit wary at first as I always part boiled roast potatoes done in the oven but these were fantastic and cooked perfectly
Thanks for your comment Elizabeth! I’m so happy to hear the air fryer roast potatoes turned out great for you 🙂
I can never get my roast potatoes just right so I’m going to try this next week fingers crossed all goes well 🤞🏻
Good luck with the roast potatoes Reah – which air fryer do you have? Let me know how you get on!
To me roast potatoes are just that, not cut up potatoes. Finding it difficult to find a recipe which shows how to cook WHOLE roast potatoes.
Wouldn’t that be a jacket potato?
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I have only just unpacked my new Tower Air Fryer, and needed to see some recipes before I try anything. I am SO happy I found your website, as you give such good clear and yummy sounding recipes, so my first attempt at using it will be to try doing the Roasites today for my Sunday lunch.
Hi Phyllis – thank you so much for your comment. I hope you enjoy your Tower Air Fryer! I have lots more recipes to add so check back soon! If you have any special requests please do let me know 🙂
I did as I said I would, and tried out the roasties yesterday in my brand new Air Fryer. WOW! What a difference. I am indebted to you for this recipe, and from here on in it is the only way I shall ever bother to cook them again. As a widow, I rarely cook a joint (you end up eating the same meat for days on end!) so this is a lovely way to enjoy roasties with anything else. Now I am hooked, I can’t wait to try all the other recipes you are generous enough to share with us. Many thanks.
Hi Phylis! I’m so happy to hear you enjoyed your roasties 🙂 I’ll try and add some more air fryer recipes soon!
Trying these today with our lunch roast chicken! Only got our tower air fryer yesterday!
Hi Dani – I hope they turned out great!
Used mine for the first time with very good results. Preset the fryer to 35 mins at 180 degrees. Paused at 25 mins and put in my potatoes. I had two trays of roasters so stopped with 7 minutes to go and swapped the shelf position. Continued u til finished ….. great result.
Xmas day will be so much easier this year without fussing with a deep fat fryer.
Cheers
Tom
could i do the roast potatoes in my ninja air fryer 5.2lt max
Hi Roy – yes you certainly can – I quite often do roast potatoes in my Ninja!
But do you use the air fryer or the oven setting in the Ninja? Thanks
I got my air fryer for Christmas yesterday and I replaced the olive oil with goose fat…melted my goose fat and tossed my potatoes in that before putting them in. What a result!