36 Quick and Easy Air Fryer Breakfast Recipes That Really Deliver
We’ve all heard it before: Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. But occasionally (always), you snooze your alarm one too many times and find you don’t have enough time in your morning routine to whip up an Insta-worthy meal. Friends, that’s where your trusty air fryer comes to the rescue. The magical kitchen appliance can cook up some seriously impressive eats in a fraction of the time a stovetop or oven preparation would require. Don’t take our word for it though—just check out these 36 air fryer breakfast recipes—from French toast sticks to hard boiled eggs and bacon—and see (or taste) for yourself.
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1. Air Fryer Elote Avocado Toast
Time Commitment: 18 minutes
Why We Love It: <30 minutes, crowd-pleaser
Mexican street corn + creamy avocado toast = a fiesta in your mouth. Use your air fryer to quickly bring your bread to the ideal golden brown level of toastiness.
Fork to Spoon
2. Air Fryer Breakfast Pizza Waffles
Time Commitment: 23 minutes
Why We Love It: <10 ingredients, <30 minutes, crowd-pleaser
These cheesy breakfast pizzas boast a winning combination of pork sausage, fluffy scrambled eggs and juicy cherry tomatoes, all piled atop a waffle that has been air fried to perfection.
Two Sleevers
3. Air Fryer Egg Rolls
Time Commitment: 18 minutes
Why We Love It: <10 ingredients, <30 minutes, low sugar
This egg roll recipe yields a convenient grab-and-go morning meal that can be adapted to include any combination of your favorite breakfast ingredients. We like hash browns and bacon, but you do you.
Life Between Weekends
4. Everything Bagel Dogs
Time Commitment: 15 minutes
Why We Love It: <10 ingredients, <30 minutes, kid-friendly
For those mornings when you just can’t decide between a corn dog and a bagel. (We’ve all been there…right? Right.)
Cook at Home Mom
5. Crispy Air Fryer Frozen Hash Browns
Time Commitment: 18 minutes
Why We Love It: <10 ingredients, <30 minutes, kid-friendly
You’ll never suffer a soggy hash brown again, thanks to this air fryer recipe that turns store-bought frozen potato patties into crisp, golden beauties in the blink of an eye.
The Creative Bite
6. Air Fryer English Muffin Breakfast Pizzas
Time Commitment: 15 minutes
Why We Love It: <30 minutes, kid-friendly
Here, an exceedingly easy and quick breakfast pizza recipe that features a soft-cooked egg—you know, because a runny yolk makes everything more delicious.
Berry Maple
7. Air Fryer Frittata
Time Commitment: 9 minutes
Why We Love It: <10 ingredients, <15 minutes
If you have a small round cake pan, you don’t need to buy any of those fancy air fryer accessories to make this nine-minute breakfast. Top it with avocado, hot sauce or more cheese (or a combination of all three).
Whitney Bond
8. Breakfast Burrito
Time Commitment: 45 minutes
Why We Love It: high protein, grab-and-go
Whether you’re hungover (happens to the best of us) or simply really hungry, a breakfast burrito stuffed with tater tots, cheesy scrambled eggs and avocado is the solution. Assemble a few and stash them in your freezer, then cook them up whenever you need.
This Silly Girl’s Kitchen
9. Air Fryer Cinnamon Raisin Bagels
Time Commitment: 20 minutes
Why We Love It: <30 minutes, grab-and-go
The only thing better than a warm cinnamon raisin bagel slathered with a spread of your choosing is the sense of pride that comes from having made it yourself.
This Silly Girl's Kitchen
10. Air Fryer Vanilla Doughnut Holes
Time Commitment: 16 minutes
Why We Love It: <30 minutes, grab-and-go
Give Dunkin’ a run for its money (and save yours) with these indulgent and oh-so tasty air fryer doughnut holes the next time you’re craving a morning treat. (Psst: The dough comes together in a flash.)
Upstate Ramblings
11. Air Fryer Twice-Baked Potato
Time Commitment: 15 minutes
Why We Love It: <10 ingredients, <30 minutes
We’re making twice-baked breakfast potatoes a thing. During the ten minutes it takes to whip these up, fry a few eggs to top ’em off. Runny yolk + cheesy, bacon-y potatoes = instant classic.
The Recipe Critic
12. Air Fryer French Toast
Time Commitment: 9 minutes
Why We Love It: <10 ingredients, <30 minutes
This French toast is mess-free and crazy fast to make (think: less than ten minutes), and the texture is downright dreamy. Serve it with fresh fruit, a dusting of confectioners’ sugar and lots of maple syrup.
Tidbits
13. Air Fryer Whole Wheat Bagels
Time Commitment: 19 minutes
Why We Love It: <10 ingredients, <30 minutes, whole wheat
In case you missed it, the air fryer is a bagel lover’s best friend—and if you’re looking for a (relatively) guilt-free carb fix, these light and fluffy whole wheat bagels certainly fit the bill.
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14. French Toast Sticks
Time Commitment: 15 minutes
Why We Love It: <10 ingredients, <30 minutes, whole grain
Woo the picky kid in your life with satisfyingly crisp French toast sticks that are easy to make and even easier to eat. If you want to make them ahead, store them in the freezer and reheat in your microwave.
Show Me the Yummy
15. Air Fryer Doughnuts
Time Commitment: 45 minutes
Why We Love It: <10 ingredients, grab-and-go
There are four different ways to dress up these sinfully delicious biscuit dough doughnuts. From glazed to sprinkles, it’d safe to say none of them disappoint.
Cooking With Janica
16. Custard Toast
Time Commitment: 10 minutes
Why We Love It: <10 ingredients, <30 minutes, crowd-pleaser
Why settle for buttered toast when you can eat a slice of bread that’s filled with creamy custard? Top this trendy TikTok toast with chocolate, fresh fruit or anything else you fancy, and prepare to swoon.
The Typical Mom/Temecula Blogs
17. Air Fryer Potato Pancakes
Time Commitment: 26 minutes
Why We Love It: <10 ingredients, <30 minutes, low sugar
This air fryer potato pancake recipe turns yesterday’s mashed potatoes into a breakfast side that’s decidedly more appetizing than gluey microwaved leftovers. Mashed sweet potatoes would work too, FYI.
Posh Journal
18. Air Fryer Hash Browns
Time Commitment: 30 minutes
Why We Love It: kid-friendly, crowd-pleaser
Frozen hash browns and bell peppers get an extra kick from chili powder and paprika in this flavorful and filling breakfast side dish.
All Day I Dream About Food
19. Keto Cranberry Orange Muffins
Time Commitment: 28 minutes
Why We Love It: <30 minutes, grab-and-go
Attention keto friends: Your air fryer will make a star baker out of you yet. As it turns out, Greek yogurt and almond flour can make a pretty convincing breakfast treat.
The Creative Bite
20. Turkey Bacon Breakfast Quesadilla
Time Commitment: 15 minutes
Why We Love It: <10 ingredients, <30 minutes
Stuffed with scrambled eggs, cheese, turkey bacon and veggies—these quesadillas will satisfy a breakfast burrito craving without weighing you down.
Bitz & Giggles
21. Easy Air Fryer Omelet
Time Commitment: 8 minutes
Why We Love It: <10 ingredients, <30 minutes, kid-friendly
This air fryer breakfast recipe is really more of a frittata than an omelet, but we suspect you won’t care about semantics when there’s a plate of cheesy, veggie-filled goodness in front of you that came together in under ten minutes. Hot tip: Prep your filling ingredients the night before and you can just throw everything together in the morning.
Sugar Free Mom
22. Cranberry Cream Cheese Danish
Time Commitment: 25 minutes
Why We Love It: <10 ingredients, <30 minutes, low sugar, gluten-free
Impress your gluten-free brunch guests and satisfy your sweet tooth with a fruit-filled almond flour Danish that’s stuffed and drizzled with sweetened cream cheese.
Walking On Sunshine
23. Apple Hand Pies
Time Commitment: 20 minutes
Why We Love It: <10 ingredients, <30 minutes, grab-and-go
Hectic mornings are so much more pleasant when you have a travel mug of coffee in one hand and a palm-sized apple pie in the other.
The Big Man’s World
24. Air Fryer Pizza Rolls
Time Commitment: 8 minutes
Why We Love It: <10 ingredients, <30 minutes, grab-and-go
These cheesy, saucy pizza rolls make for a satisfying, grab-and-go meal at any time of day. That said, if you have time for a sit-down breakfast, we strongly suggest you top your roll with a runny egg and dig in with a fork and knife.
Cotter Crunch
25. Cauliflower Sweet Potato Tots
Time Commitment: 55 minutes
Why We Love It: gluten-free, crowd-pleaser
Crunchy tots with a soft, fluffy interior and a whole lot of flavor, these vegan and gluten-free morsels are downright obsession-worthy.
Sweet Pea & Saffron
26. Air Fryer Potato Wedges
Time Commitment: 52 minutes
Why We Love It: <10 ingredients, vegan, dairy-free
These crisp-on-the-outside, soft-on-the-inside seasoned potato wedges are just dying to sop up the yolk of your sunny egg.
Yellow Bliss Road
27. Air Fryer Mini Cinnamon Rolls
Time Commitment: 15 minutes
Why We Love It: <10 ingredients, <30 minutes
Presenting, flaky, buttery and oh-so sweet cinnamon rolls that aren’t the size of your face. (Not that that’s a bad thing; sometimes we’d just prefer to eat five small bites instead of one giant one.)
Fork to Spoon
28. Air Fryer Keto Croissants
Time Commitment: 58 minutes
Why We Love It: keto-friendly, low carb, grab-and-go
Behold, a recipe for anyone who has ever looked at a flaky, buttery croissant and wondered how to make it work for their diet. This time, coconut flour is working its magic.
The Defined Dish
29. Cheesy Chicken-Stuffed, Bacon-Wrapped Jalapeños
Time Commitment: 30 minutes
Why We Love It: <10 ingredients, crowd pleaser, special occasion-worthy
Spicy jalapeño peppers are stuffed with shredded chicken and gooey cheese and wrapped in crispy bacon to make a brunch appetizer that looks as good as it tastes.
Hey Keto Mama
30. Air Fryer Sausage and Cheese Balls
Time Commitment: 22 minutes
Why We Love It: <10 ingredients, <30 minutes, keto-friendly
Pair them with eggs or eat them on their own—either way, you can file these protein-rich and keto-friendly breakfast meatballs under ‘morning comfort food.’
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31. Twisted Bacon
Time Commitment: 50 minutes
Why We Love It: <10 ingredients, versatile
Here, a clever corkscrew technique ensures perfectly cooked strips of bacon every time, whilst scoring bonus points for presentation to boot.
32. Air Fryer Chicken and Waffles
Stay Snatched
Time Commitment: 40 minutes
Why We Love It: <10 ingredients, kid-friendly, high protein
What’s the secret to making waffles in your air fryer? Using the frozen, store-bought kind—they’ll crisp up as if you made them from scratch. Now for the tough part: deciding between hot sauce or maple syrup.
33. Air Fryer Potatoes
Feel Good Foodie
Time Commitment: 28 minutes
Why We Love It: <10 ingredients, kid-friendly, beginner-friendly
They’re called home fries, but we’ve never wanted to make them at home…until now. These golden nuggets have a crispy exterior and fluffy interior all without the annoyance of deep-frying (not to mention the cals).
34. Air Fryer Hard Boiled Eggs
Feel Good Foodie
Time Commitment: 20 minutes
Why We Love It: <30 minutes, <10 ingredients, beginner-friendly
“I love to watch water boil at 7 a.m.,” said no one ever. Instead, make a batch of hard-boiled eggs in your air fryer and never worry again about whether they’ll be cooked to your liking. And FYI, the eggs can be refrigerated for up to a week (even if they’re pre-peeled).
35. Easy Air Fryer Cinnamon Doughnuts
Momsdish
Time Commitment: 15 minutes
Why We Love It: kid-friendly, beginner-friendly, <10 ingredients, make ahead
Canned biscuit dough is the secret to homemade doughnuts in 15 minutes’ time. Finish these treats with your choice of cinnamon sugar or a vanilla glaze with rainbow sprinkles.
36. Air Fryer Bacon
Two Sleevers
Time Commitment: 12 minutes
Why We Love It: <15 minutes, beginner-friendly, keto
We’re all for a bacon cooking method that eliminates the need to deep-clean our stove after brunch. To reduce the smoke of the bacon grease in your air fryer, put some water, bread or foil at the bottom of the basket.
