Air Fryer Chicken Legs With Buffalo Cauliflower Hot bites
Try this new side dish, and believe when we say, you're going to start making these every week!
Course Air Fryer
Cuisine American
Keyword Air Fryer, Cauliflower, Chicken, Fried, Low Carb, Spicy
Prep Time 15 minutesminutes
Cook Time 50 minutesminutes
Total Time 1 hourhour5 minutesminutes
Servings 4servings
Ingredients
For Chicken Legs
8Chicken drumsticks(or 4 chicken legs (drumstick plus thigh)
1/2tspsalt(plus more to taste)
2tbspolive oil
4tbspsoy sauce
2tbsplime juice(or lemon juice)
2tbsphoney
1tspgarlic powder
1tsponion powder
1/4tspcayenne pepper
For Buffalo Cauliflower Hot Bites
11ozcauliflowerdivided on florets
olive oil
1cuphot sauce
1cuppanko breadcrumbs
Instructions
For Chicken Legs
In a large bowl, mix all of the ingredients except chicken, until well blended.
Add the chicken legs. Mix and massage the drumsticks by hand for about 2-3 minutes, or until all the liquids are almost completely absorbed by the meat. Make sure that the chicken is evenly covered by the seasoning sauce. Massaging the chicken will allow the sauce to get quickly absorbed by the meat.
Place the chicken legs on the air fryer rack, leaving some space in between. Depending on the size of your air fryer, you may need to do the frying in two batches
Fry at 400F for 15 min. Flip and fry for 10 min more, again at 400F. Flip again and fry for 5 minutes more. If the legs look quite well-browned, you may not need to do the final 5 minutes of frying. Don't let the dark color confuse you, it's there because of the soy sauce.
Remove the drumsticks from the air fryer and transfer them to a serving plate. Serve hot.
For Buffalo Cauliflower Hot Bites
Pour cauliflower into a bowl and add olive oil, toss. This helps the hot sauce stick to the cauliflower and gives it more flavor.
Pour hot sauce over the cauliflower and toss until evenly coated.
Pour breadcrumbs over cauliflower and toss well. This will help your cauliflower bites have a bread-like coating on them that browns nicely.
Add cauliflower to the air fryer and set to 400F. Toss them every 5 minutes or so, and they take about 20 minutes to cook.