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Home » Simple Vegan Recipes » Air Fryer Recipes » Vegan Air Fryer Avocado Fries (Oven Directions Included)

Vegan Air Fryer Avocado Fries (Oven Directions Included)

by Becky Striepe

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Crispy, rich, air fryer avocado fries use no added oil at all. They’re kind of like magic! This recipe includes oven directions, in case you need them.

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Table of Contents

  • How to Make Avocado Fries
  • Breading Your Avocado
  • Air Fryer Cooking Times Can Vary
  • How to Serve Vegan Avocado Fries
  • Reheating Instructions
  • Air Fryer Avocado Fries Recipe

How to Make Avocado Fries

Not only are these 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.

They take about half an hour, if you’re baking, rather than air frying.

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 or on a baking sheet, and you’re ready to rock.

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 or chickpeas, dump them into the colander, and voila! Your bowl fills up with precious, precious aquafaba.

You can read more about aquafaba’s magic here.

Breading Your Avocado

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 or baking sheet.

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 have made these in both my GoWISE air fryer and my Zenchef air fryer, and 10 minutes was perfect.

Air fryer cooking times can vary.

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 recipe video.

How to Serve Vegan Avocado Fries

Whether you’re making baked avocado fries or cooking in the air fryer, there are lots of delicious ways to use them!

When I taught this recipe at an air fryer cooking workshop, we ate them 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 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 avocado tacos, burritos, and even sandwiches or wraps.

Reheating Instructions

I recommend eating these pretty soon after cooking. The panko breading will lose its crunch if you leave them out, so they taste best if you serve immediately.

If you do end up with leftovers, first, grapple with your life choices. Then, store in the refrigerator in an airtight container. They’ll keep for up to three days.

You can reheat these in the air fryer at 350F for two to four minutes, and they’ll regain their crunch. In the oven, five to eight minutes at 350F will do the trick.

Do NOT reheat these in the microwave! They will be mushy, which totally defeats the purpose.

plate of air fryer avocado fries with a hand picking up one piece of crispy avocado

Air Fryer Avocado Fries

Crispy, rich, air fryer avocado fries use no added oil at all. They're kind of like magic! This recipe includes oven directions, in case you need them.
3.67 from 3 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!

Video

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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About Becky Striepe

Becky Striepe (rhymes with “sleepy”) is a vegan food writer and cookbook author. She been vegan since 2006 and developing simple vegan recipes since 2008.

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Comments

  1. Adrienne McGuire

    October 01, 2019 at 12:48 am

    Thanks for this awesome recipe for making avocado fries. It’s super helpful to have tasty and reliable recipes. Keep up the good work!

    Reply
    • Becky Striepe

      October 01, 2019 at 9:49 am

      You are so welcome. I’m glad you’re enjoying them!

      Reply
  2. Rebecca

    September 22, 2019 at 11:01 am

    I just came back from visiting my granddaughter in TX. We stopped at Torchy’s tacos. I indulged in the most delicious avocado fries taco (flour tortilla, layered with refried beans, fried avocado topped off with lettuce, tomato and cheese. It was heavenly.

    Reply
    • Becky Striepe

      September 23, 2019 at 10:24 am

      That sounds so good! I love avocado tacos!

      Reply
  3. kaitlin

    July 11, 2019 at 11:51 pm

    I used homemade bread crumbs because I didn’t have any, and they came out even better because of it!

    Reply
    • Becky Striepe

      July 12, 2019 at 9:52 am

      Oh my goodness, what a great idea!!

      Reply
  4. Sierra

    January 07, 2019 at 11:13 pm

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

    Reply
    • Becky Striepe

      January 08, 2019 at 12:22 pm

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

      Reply
  5. connie

    December 25, 2018 at 1:19 pm

    Delicious!

    Reply
    • Becky Striepe

      December 27, 2018 at 8:42 am

      Thank you, Connie!

      Reply
  6. Nivi

    March 04, 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 04, 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!

          • Renee

            March 02, 2019 at 2:02 pm

            Lol – you are so wrong, fried avo tacos are amazing and a great way to switch up the vegan staple that is the avocado. Maybe you had a lesser variety of. Vo like the ones from Florida are not as good as Calif or Mexican varieties.

        • di

          March 07, 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
  7. Laura

    February 09, 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 09, 2017 at 7:23 am

      Haha thank you! 😀

      Reply
  8. 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
    • Kacer

      October 27, 2019 at 6:20 pm

      I’m not sure if you know about this option. You may, if so, sorry, and NM, However if you highlight what you would like to print, open a wordpad document, on the recipe webpage hit &C at the same time, then switch to the word document and hit & V and that pastes into word document what you had highlighted. Then you can just print that off. Until a printer version is available. Beats handwriting them. I’m not rating the recipe yet b/c I’ve not tried, but I will! & TY!

      Reply

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