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Our Air Fryer Baked Potato recipe is the ultimate air fryer side dish! Cover your baking potatoes with our parsley garlic salt rub. The garlic parsley potatoes skin is flavorful and crispy! This recipe will make you love your air fryer! The flavor and texture make this the best baked potato ever! Sponsored by Air-N-Water

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AIR FRYER BAKED POTATO

We have many rave reviews from so many readers how this is the best air fryer recipe and baked potato recipe they’ve ever made. Our air fryer baked potatoes are a well-loved recipe, one of our favorite ways to use our air fryer and definitely one of our favorite air fryer recipes! We’re the original creator of the seasoned baked potato. No one can resist our recipe for parsley potatoes with garlic!

Not only am I going to show you how to bake a potato, I’m going to show you how to make the best baked potato you’ve ever tasted! I love my air fryer and I use it at least once a week to make baked potatoes. Now I only make baked potatoes are in the air fryer, much easier than making a baked potato in the oven. When you put on the seasonings it just takes the potatoes to another level because it’s cooking it at a high heat with air circulating the entire potato, air frying it! Just in case you wondered how an air fryer worked. 🙂

HOW TO MAKE AN AIR FRYER BAKED POTATO

First, start by making the seasoned potatoes.

Cover the potatoes in the parsley garlic salt rub. This is how they look right before I drizzle a little bit of oil onto them. The bottom pan of the air fryer will catch any drippings. The oil helps the skin crisp up and makes all of the seasoning stick to the potato skin as well. This potato skin tastes so delicious. It makes for a perfectly seasoned potato.

air fryer baked potatoes with seasoning

HOW LONG TO COOK AIR FRYER BAKED POTATOES

Once they have the oil on them they’re ready for the air fryer. You can just put them right in and fry in the air fryer at 392 degrees for 35-40 minutes. The cooking time depends on small or big the potatoes are. The bigger they are the more time they will take to cook.

air fryer baked potatoes

We place them right into the basket. You do not have to cover baked potatoes with foil in the air fryer, you just place them in the basket to cook.

how to bake potatoes in an air fryer

HOW TO SERVE AIR FRYER BAKED POTATOES

Once they come out of the air fryer you can slit the potato and pinch and push both sides to open the potato. We like to top our potato we go with a dollop of Greek yogurt, but you could also use sour cream. Don’t like either of those? We also put butter or even melt mozzarella onto them. Kids even like them with a little ketchup.

What to serve with air fryer baked potatoes?

Baked potatoes are great with a lean protein like oven baked chicken or air fryer pork chops. Want something a little more fancy? Try our air fryer bacon wrapped filet mignon.

baked potato with butter

If you want really crispy stuff without frying this air fryer is excellent! Fries are crispy, our potatoes are crispy on the outside and perfectly fluffy on the inside.

This is NOT a deep fryer. Think of it more like a convection oven. You can even bake in your air fryer! 🙂 At first, I used it thinking I could fry anything that I would typically fry like zeppoles. In all honesty, I didn’t like it because I was approaching it the wrong way.  I was trying to make deep fried desserts, and the Air Fryer isn’t made to do that.

fluffy baked potato

It helps to make some fried foods that you’d usually enjoy a much healthier option by using an air oven. You can cook without any add oil, and it’s oil free cooking unless you’re making our Air Fryer Baked Potatoes with Parsley Salt, and Garlic! The oil helps the potatoes get that beautiful crispy skin.  Who doesn’t love a crispy baked potato on the outside and feather light cooked inside?! Ohh and that salted garlic crust is INSANE!! Every potato will be gobbled up as soon as they hit the plate.

Once I realized it wasn’t a typical fryer and I couldn’t do batters a whole new world opened up!  I made delicious baked potatoes.  In only 35 minutes! Bigger potatoes may take a bit longer and smaller potatoes will cook up quicker.

Why not just make a microwave baked potato?

You will not get a crispy skin in the microwave. Microwaves result in more of a gluey potato, cookout essential nutrients, and just won’t pack as much flavor as our air fryer baked potatoes.

Watch our video on how to make air fryer baked potatoes

We hope you love your air fryer and your air fryer baked potato! If you have any questions or suggestions for more air fryer recipes let us know in the comments below!

air fryer baked potato

We hope you enjoy this easy to make a baked potato in air fryer recipe. We hope you enjoy our garlic parsley potatoes! Once the potatoes are done you really don’t have to season it at all, but if you want you can add salt and pepper to the inside. 🙂

If you try our Air Fryer Baked Potato with Parsley Garlic Potatoes Seasoning let us know by tagging us on social media! We love seeing your photos and reading your comments 🙂

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Air Fryer Baked Potato Recipe - Baked Garlic Parsley Potatoes
Prep Time
5 mins
Cook Time
35 mins
Total Time
40 mins
 

Air Fryer Baked Potato covered with a parsley garlic salt rub. Making Air Fryer Baked Potatoes will be your new favorite way to use your air fryer. 

Course: Side Dish
Cuisine: American
Servings: 3
Calories: 213 kcal
Author: Courtney
Ingredients
  • 3 Idaho or Russet Baking Potatoes
  • 1-2 Tablespoons Olive Oil
  • 1 Tablespoon Salt
  • 1 Tablespoon Garlic
  • 1 Teaspoon Parsley
Instructions
  1. Wash your potatoes and then create air holes with a fork in the potatoes.
  2. Sprinkle them with the olive oil & seasonings, then rub the seasoning evenly on the potatoes.
  3. Once the potatoes are coated place them into the basket for the Air Fryer and place into the machine.
  4. Cook your potatoes at 392 degrees for 35-40 minutes or until fork tender.
  5. Top with your favorites. We love fresh parsley and sour cream!
Recipe Notes

The nutrition is always estimated and with this recipe, it counts the full amount used. That means when you get salt on your hands, salt in the bowl and seasoning drops into the air fryer basket, it is still counted towards the nutrition label even though it's not in the recipe. If salt intake is a concern we suggest using it at the end to season with your desired/allowed amount. 

Nutrition Facts
Air Fryer Baked Potato Recipe - Baked Garlic Parsley Potatoes
Amount Per Serving
Calories 213 Calories from Fat 36
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 4g 6%
Sodium 2336mg 97%
Potassium 888mg 25%
Total Carbohydrates 39g 13%
Dietary Fiber 2g 8%
Sugars 1g
Protein 4g 8%
Vitamin C 15.7%
Calcium 3.3%
Iron 10.2%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

These are perfect for your next cookout or even alongside dinner. We make them at least once a week, either air fryer baked potato or air fryer baked sweet potato. When the whole family loves and enjoys something we tend to make it often and this air fryer baked potato recipe is a staple in our home.

Our air fryer sweet potatoes are a must try. It’s just as good as our air fryer baked potato but sweeter.

Our Air Fryer Baked Sweet Potato recipe results in a sweet potato baked to perfection! - Topped with butter, salt and parsley.

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  1. We are baked potato connisouers in my house. my daughter even shot a video on how to make the perfect baked potato at home when she was 8, lol! I can tell by your photos you achieved that perfect light and fluffy interior! That shot of the potatoes….gorgeous!

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  3. I love your video! I will have to use my air fryer for potatoes. I am LOVING the idea of the garlic ON the potato. I will be making this this week!

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  7. I love baked potatoes with garlic! But I love sweet potatoes even more! It would be great to fry something and have it still be healthy.

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  8. I would try these baked potato. I would love to try one. I was scared to buy one because I didn.t understand how they work.

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  11. I definitely have to get my hands on an air fryer.. I just love everything about these delicious garlic and parsley air fryer baked potatoes too!

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  12. I own a AirFryer and use it often to enjoy French Fries, Fried Plantains, Chicken Wings, Chicken Fried Steak, Homemade Sweet Potato Tater Tots, you name it! IT’S AMAZING! Everybody should have one! Just saying…

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  22. I have been going back and forth on whether to get an air fryer or not. We have a deep fryer but we rarely use it – it just sits on the counter and smells up the house when we do. That said, these potatoes might have swayed me in the “I want one right now” direction…

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  23. Courtney,
    These look amazing but how long would I cook the mini potatoes for? They are about quarter sized.

    Thanks

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  24. Could you tell me what Temperature we would cook these potatoes in a Celsius oven in Australia please…

    Chris n Truus Farnham

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  26. Dear Courtney, Lovely family, I’ve been a certified gourmet chef for over 44 years, and I grew up on meat and potatoes as a staple, so baked potatoes are a favorite here also. Thank you

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  27. Courtney, I just made these – delish!! Thank you for the Recipe. Question: is the sodium content correct 2336 mg??

    Madi

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    • Hi Madi! Glad you enjoyed 🙂 I’ve updated the nutrition label with a note to follow up on your concerns about the salt. As you know from making the recipe the seasonings will get all over your hands, the bowl, and even some ends up in the bottom of the air fryer. 😮 Unfortunately, the recipe card counts the total amount used, but we really don’t use all of that salt. If salt is a concern you can always add salt at the end or the desired amount in the beginning.

  28. Just bought my first air fryer. Will a single potato take the same amount of time as two or three? Your recipe looks delicious! Thanks.

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  29. I just bought an air fryer a few days ago. I’ve not yet used it because I’m just deathly afraid to!!! I’m a “traditional cook” with many years in the kitchen, so trying new gadgets is tough for me. As I’m watching my 60-year-old waistline, though (what’s left of it, anyway!😉), I thought it might be wise to get on board with the air fryer everyone’s ravaging about. This baked potato seems like a good, safe kickoff recipe. If I screw it up, I’m only out the cost of a potato! Thanks for dragging my toe into the water!

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  30. The air fryer is a healthy alternative to cooking in oil, but the sodium is over 2200. Why so high?
    Is there a way to get the sodium lower?

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    • Hi June!

      I understand your concern. The nutrition label isn’t the exact amount in some dishes. Please also refer to the notes under the nutrition label to check for more info. 🙂

      “Recipe Notes:
      The nutrition is always estimated and with this recipe, it counts the full amount used. That means when you get salt on your hands, salt in the bowl and seasoning drops into the air fryer basket, it is still counted towards the nutrition label even though it’s not in the recipe. If salt intake is a concern we suggest using it at the end to season with your desired/allowed amount. “

  31. We just got ours and I need help finding recipes to cook in it. All we have been sucessfull at so far is with the frozen chicken. Our grandson loved thoses

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