Combining a favorite diet with a clean way to cook, the Quick & Easy Air Fryer Cookbook brings delicious keto recipes to an appliance that seems like it was made specifically for it.
Organized by favorite types of dishes (Breakfast, Sides, and Desserts) and Star Ingredients (Chicken, Pork, Vegetables) in such a way that discovering your new favorite recipes are only a turn of the page away. Each recipe is complete with keto macros to assist the health-conscious easily find out their percentages of proteins, calories, net carbs, total fat, trans fats, and fiber they consume with each meal.
While this book is an excellent addition to the culinary library of keto or air fryer aficionados, introductions to both the keto diet and the air fryer make this a great pick for beginners as well. If you haven’t already heard about what a keto diet is, it involves a diet made predominantly of proteins and excludes carbohydrates. It’s named keto after the raised ketone levels in the blood that curb appetite and increase fat burning. A keto diet comes with strict guidelines, and through air frying your food, you’ll be left with a delectable meal free of any complex carbohydrates and full of flavor.
These easy, fast, step-by-step instructions accompanied with mouth-watering photography throughout, are an excellent source of inspiration and portal to delicious weekday dinners as well as quick recipes for easy entertaining. Air fried dinners are quick and tasty, making them a prime choice for families that are on the go and busy working singles as well. By catering to your keto lifestyle and your love for the air fryer, you no longer have to sacrifice health, time, or taste to get a delicious dinner.
Along with delicious recipes that stand on their own, separate sections of key keto staples to build out your own recipes, are included in the back of the book. Crumb coating to add a crispy crunch to any recipe is ideal for air frying and can inspire new keto-friendly recipes. Recipes for sweet and savory keto doughs for when you want to treat yourself to a nostalgic pre-diet craving. Not to mention some of the delicious keto-friendly sauces that will please just about everyone, such as:
Korean Gochujang
Coconut Curry Peanut Sauce
General Tso Sauce
Tikki Marsala Sauce
Tzatziki Sauce
Teriyaki Marinade
Additional delicious, crowd-pleasing recipes are bound to be instant favorites. Recipes such as:
French Toast Egg Loaf
Avocado Fries
Flank Steak with Chimichurri
Chicken Crust Pizza
Cajun Shrimp
Cheddar and Chive Cauli-tots
Jalapeno Popper Zucchini Boat
Cheesecake Hand Pie
Treat yourself to these crispy, keto, air-fried delights in the Quick & Easy Air Fryer Cookbook.
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Quick Easy Air Fryer Cookbook is a keto cooking manual with recipes developed and curated by Carolina Cartier. Due out 19th Oct 2021 from Quarto on their Chartwell imprint, it's 160 pages and will be available in hardcover and ebook formats.
I liked the style of the book. The graphics are colorful and the photography is clear and easy to follow. The author has an accessible and easy to understand writing style and presents the concepts in scientifically correct, clear, and concise language. The introduction covers the basics of the keto lifestyle/diet, including a basic primer on ketosis, macronutrients, tips, ingredients, tools, supplies, how-to, pantry lists and shopping tips. The air-fryer section is very abbreviated and readers who are complete newbies with the air-fryer will want to check their own instruction manuals for more information (all these recipes utilize the air-fryer in some capacity).
The recipe chapters are arranged thematically by category: breakfast, sides, main dishes by main ingredient (beef, chicken, pork, seafood, and vegetables), desserts, doughs, and sauces & seasonings.
Ingredient measurements are supplied in American standard measurements with metric measures in parentheses (yay!). The prep times, net carbs, servings, and tips and options are listed in well laid out sidebars. The ingredients are listed in a bullet list followed by step by step directions. Nutritional info includes calories, carbs, total/saturated/trans fats, sodium, total sugars, protein, and fiber.
This really felt like a keto-friendly do-able cookbook for me: short on time/money, impatient with impossible-to-source "weird" ingredients, and cooking for myself and a family of non-keto eaters. I found it impressive and pretty easy to follow. A small real-life occurrence - my endocrinologist said at my last visit I was his ONLY patient who had actually gone DOWN in weight since lockdown. That made me feel good.
Four stars. One codicil, there are very few pictures included in the book (fewer than 20% of the recipes are accompanied by photos). The dishes and serving suggestions which are included are attractive and appropriate, however.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes
