Air Fryer Cookbook – Healthy New Year – 24 December 2025

Summary

"Healthy Eating Air Fryer Cookbook: Healthy New Year!" Issue 30 (GBP 7.99) from Anthem Publishing delivers 107 recipes and tips for air fryer cooking, including Veganuary options, fakeaways, Mediterranean flavours, Asian adventures, sweet treats, and 10 ways to detox. Edited by Nick Gregory, the 130-page cookbook champions the start of 2026 with calorie-counted air fryer recipes.

The issue is structured into recipe sections: Easy Breakfasts (bagel buns, baked oats, granola), Light Lunches (soups, salads, mezze), Veganuary (Korean cauliflower, cauliflower wings, banana blossom fish and chips, tempeh tacos), Midweek Meals (chickpea nuggets, popcorn chick'n, cheesy potato muffins), Weekend Delights (ham-wrapped chicken, hasselback sweet potatoes), Fakeaways (bao buns, quesadillas, tandoori paneer, sticky chilli paneer), Mediterranean Flavours (filo pie, chickpea salad, potato rostis), Asian Adventure (Thai fishcakes, poke bowls, piri-piri chicken, chicken satay), A Taste of the Sea (marinated prawns, salmon, tuna croquettes), and Sweet Treats (quinoa brownies, carrot cake, chickpea flour cookies).

Cooking charts provide temperature and timing guidelines for vegetables, meats, fish, and frozen foods. The 10 ways to detox feature offers post-holiday reset strategies.

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Content Guide

▸ Basics / Cooking Charts

p.27 · Air Fryer Cooking Charts
Temperature and timing reference charts for air fryer cooking: vegetables (180-200 degrees C, 8-15 minutes), chicken pieces (180-190 degrees C, 18-25 minutes), fish fillets (180 degrees C, 8-12 minutes), frozen chips (200 degrees C, 12-15 minutes), and baked goods (160-180 degrees C, 10-20 minutes). Charts are grouped by food type for quick reference.

▸ Features / New Year Reset

p.8 · Calorie Counting in January
A guide to using the air fryer for lower-calorie cooking: air frying uses 70-80 percent less oil than deep frying, reducing calorie content by 30-50 percent per serving. Sample daily meal plan using air fryer recipes provides approximately 1,500 calories. The article includes tips for tracking portions without formal calorie counting.

▸ Features / Detox

p.60 · 10 Ways to Detox
Ten post-holiday reset strategies using air fryer cooking: increase vegetable intake (air fryer roasted vegetables), reduce oil consumption, batch-cook healthy lunches, swap processed snacks for homemade air-fried alternatives, increase fibre with roasted legumes, hydrate adequately, reduce alcohol, increase sleep, move daily, and practise mindful eating.

▸ Recipes / Veganuary

p.33 · Veganuary: Plant-Based Air Fryer Recipes
Korean cauliflower wings with gochujang glaze (15 minutes), crispy tempeh tacos with avocado crema (12 minutes), banana blossom fish and chips (18 minutes), and squash tagine with preserved lemon (25 minutes). Each recipe provides 12-18g protein and is clearly labelled as vegan and dairy-free.

▸ Recipes / Fakeaways

p.63 · Fakeaways: Healthier Versions of Takeaway Favourites
Healthier air fryer versions of takeaway classics: masala chicken wings (280 calories per 6 wings), harissa sweet potato tacos (320 calories for 3 tacos), sticky sweet chilli paneer (290 calories), and bao buns with hoisin pork (210 calories per bun). Each recipe uses air frying instead of deep frying, reducing fat by 50-70 percent.

▸ Recipes / Mediterranean

p.75 · Mediterranean Flavours
Mediterranean air fryer recipes: roasted chickpea salad with tahini dressing, kohlrabi schnitzels with lemon, filo pie with roasted vegetables and feta, potato rosti with bacon and sage, and slow-roasted tomato sauce. Most recipes cook in 15-25 minutes at 180-200 degrees C.

▸ Recipes / Sweet Treats

p.110 · Sweet Treats: Air Fryer Desserts
Ten air fryer dessert recipes: quinoa brownies (180 degrees C, 12 minutes), creamy cardamom rice pudding, carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, sweet potato brownies (200 degrees C, 10 minutes), and chickpea flour cookies with dark chocolate. Each dessert uses the air fryer's convection heat for even baking with less energy than a conventional oven.

▸ Recipes / Breakfast

p.11 · Easy Breakfasts
Breakfast recipes include bagel buns with seeds and poppy, baked oats with berries (180 degrees C, 12 minutes), oat biscuits with dried fruit, sticky banana giant pancake (190 degrees C, 8 minutes), and carrot and apple muffins. Most breakfasts can be prepared in under 20 minutes including cooking time.

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Editor's Take

Issue 30 of the Air Fryer Cookbook delivers exactly what its readers want: 107 recipes that are easy, calorie-counted, and designed specifically for the appliance. The Veganuary and Fakeaways sections are the strongest — creative, flavour-forward recipes that genuinely use the air fryer's capabilities rather than treating it as a mini-oven. The cooking charts are a genuinely useful reference. Weaknesses: the "10 ways to detox" feature has nothing to do with air frying and feels like padding. The dessert section is surprisingly strong for an appliance not known for baking. The issue has limited editorial content beyond recipes — if you're not looking for new recipes, there's nothing else here.

Strengths
• 107 calorie-counted, air fryer-specific recipes with exact temperatures and timings
• Veganuary and Fakeaways sections use the appliance's strengths creatively
• Cooking charts are a practical, reusable reference

Weaknesses
• "10 ways to detox" feature is generic and unrelated to air frying
• Zero health journalism or expert content beyond recipe development

Verdict: Recommended — Essential for air fryer owners; the Veganuary and Fakeaways sections alone provide weeks of new meal ideas.