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How to Make Avocado Fries in the Air Fryer or the Oven

August 17, 2016 by Becky Striepe 14 Comments

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How to make avocado fries in the air fryer. These crispy, rich avocado fries use no added oil at all. They’re kind of like magic!

How to Make Avocado Fries

Not only are Avocado Fries healthy and delicious, they are super simple to make. You only need three ingredients and about 20 minutes to make them in your air fryer.

To make these, you just peel and slice your avocado (safely!), dredge each slice in aquafaba and then panko. Arrange the breaded slices in a single layer in your air fryer basket, and you’re ready to rock.

How to Make Avocado Fries in the Air Fryer or the Oven

Wait…what is aquafaba?

Are you new to aquafaba? Don’t worry! It’s just the liquid from canned beans.

To collect your aquafaba, stick a bowl under a colander, open a can of white beans, dump them into the colander, and voila! Your bowl fills up with precious, precious aquafaba.

Aquafaba: Magical Egg Replacer for Vegan Meringue Recipes and Beyond

You can read more about aquafaba’s magic here.

Back to the Avocado Fries, Though

When you are breading your avocado fries, I recommend having a “wet hand” and a “dry hand”. So, you’ll use one hand to dip the avocado slices in the aquafaba and move it over to the bowl of panko. You’ll use your other hand to coat the slice and move it to the air fryer basket.

This way, you’ll end up with less gummy panko-aquafaba mixture stuck to your fingers.

This is a great recipe for getting acquainted with your air fryer. I feel like mine really shines when I use some kind of breading or coating, and the crunchy panko on these avocado fries fits the bill perfectly. I made these in my GoWISE air fryer, and 10 minutes was perfect.

How to Make Avocado Fries in the Air Fryer or the Oven

You want your avocado fries to be lightly browned and crunchy. When you do that shake after five minutes, take a look at the progress. They should be beginning to brown, and when you shake, the panko shouldn’t fall off.

If your breading isn’t solid after five minutes, keep checking once a minute before doing vigorous shaking, like in the video below.

How to make avocado fries in the air fryer. These crispy, rich avocado fries use no added oil at all. They're kind of like magic!

How to Eat Your Avocado Fries

Avocado fries have so many delicious uses!

When I taught this recipe at a cooking workshop, we ate these like finger food, dipped in spicy mayo. Really any creamy dipping sauce would work great for these fries. My Cashew Ranch or Magical Tahini Dressing would both make great dips for these.

Or serve them with both, so everyone can choose their own dip adventures!

Beyond finger food, though, these are a great way to add richness and crunch to tacos, burritos, and even sandwiches or wraps.

How to make avocado fries in the air fryer. These crispy, rich avocado fries use no added oil at all. They're kind of like magic!

I recommend eating these pretty soon after cooking. The breading will lose its crunch if you leave them out. The good news is that you can reheat these in the air fryer at 350F for a few minutes, and they’ll regain their crunch.

I’ve got a video recipe for you above, and you can get the written directions below. Enjoy!

How to Make Avocado Fries in the Air Fryer or the Oven

How to Make Avocado Fries in the Air Fryer or the Oven

How to make avocado fries in the air fryer - These crispy, rich avocado fries use no added oil at all. They’re kind of like magic!
3.71 from 17 votes
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Course: Side Dish
Cuisine: Air Fryer, Vegan
Keyword: air fryer, air fryer avocado, avocado, avocado fries, panko, vegan air fryer
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes
Servings: 4 servings
Calories: 51kcal
Author: Becky Striepe

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup panko breadcrumbs
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 Haas avocado - peeled, pitted, and sliced
  • aquafaba from 1 15 ounce can white beans or garbanzo beans - I haven’t tried with other bean liquids, but it should work just fine.

Instructions

  • In a shallow bowl, toss together the panko and salt. Pour the aquafaba into another shallow bowl.
  • Dredge the avocado slices in the aquafaba and then in the panko, getting a nice, even coating. 
  • To air fry: Arrange the slices in a single layer in your air fryer basket. The single layer is important. No overlapping, please! Air fry for 10 minutes (Do not preheat.) at 390F, shaking well after 5 minutes.
  • To bake: Preheat the oven to 400F. Arrange the slices in a single layer on a greased baking sheet. No overlapping, please! Bake for 20 minutes, no need to flip.
  • Serve immediately with your favorite dipping sauce!

Notes

Serve these as finger food with spicy mayo for dipping or stuff them into sandwiches, tacos, or burritos!

Nutrition

Calories: 51kcal
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Filed Under: Air Fryer Recipes, Appetizers and Side Dishes, Simple Vegan Recipes Tagged With: air fryer, aquafaba, avocado fries, oil free

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Comments

  1. Sierra

    January 7, 2019 at 11:13 pm

    Loved it in tacos!!! Added chipotle seasoning to the panko! Mmmm!!!!

    Reply
    • Becky Striepe

      January 8, 2019 at 12:22 pm

      Ooh what a delicious idea! I’ll have to try that next time!

      Reply
  2. connie

    December 25, 2018 at 1:19 pm

    Delicious!

    Reply
    • Becky Striepe

      December 27, 2018 at 8:42 am

      Thank you, Connie!

      Reply
  3. Nivi

    March 4, 2017 at 2:59 pm

    I tried this now and it did not work out for me. The heating of avacados left a weird aftertaste. The same taste one gets when the avocado is overripe and brown. Bummer! I know it’s not the avocado which has gone bad because it had the perfect buttery taste as fruit. What did I miss?

    Reply
    • Becky Striepe

      March 4, 2017 at 3:51 pm

      I’m not sure! Warm avocado definitely has a distinct taste that it everyone loves. You may just not like that flavor.

      Reply
      • Rachel

        February 14, 2018 at 11:58 am

        Hi Becky! As most people know, avocados should never be cooked – they develop a bitter taste from the heat! Not sure why anyone decided to make avocado fries a thing. A friend made them one time, and they were inedible! Lets stick to using uncooked avocados in the future.

        Reply
        • Jeri

          February 28, 2018 at 5:03 pm

          Fried avocados are most definitely a thing. They may take a little practice, but Texas knows how to do them right!!! Don’t discount the power of the avocado in any form!!! 🙂

          Reply
          • Debi

            June 21, 2018 at 8:41 pm

            I first had them in Texas, AMAZING!

        • di

          March 7, 2018 at 3:34 am

          eyeroll… what a condescending comment! fried avocados are amazing and even if they weren’t, this author was happy with the way her dish turned out and wanted to share it for others to try.

          Reply
  4. Laura

    February 9, 2017 at 1:01 am

    Its hard to keep on typing this comment when you’re all drooling over the keyboard. Your dish looks very yummy.

    Reply
    • Becky Striepe

      February 9, 2017 at 7:23 am

      Haha thank you! 😀

      Reply
  5. Cristina MacDonald

    August 19, 2016 at 3:44 pm

    Hi Becky, I’m a mom of 4 and now Nana of 4 as well. Your blog is a great resource to me as I’m trying to feed my family and grandfamily a better diet than my generation
    was fed. To that end, could you possibly code or embed a printer icon so I could print your recipes rather than hand write them? It’s a wee bit difficult to copy them when I’m watching our grandkidlings – if I resolve to get back to your blog after they’re in bed I invariably fall asleep myself. Thank you.

    Reply
    • Becky Striepe

      August 19, 2016 at 3:49 pm

      Hey Christina! Thank you for the suggestion! I’ll see if there’s a good way to do that for sure. I’m glad to hear that your family enjoys my recipes!

      Reply

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