Our Air Fryer Baked Potatoes recipe is the ultimate air fryer side dish! Garlic, parsley, and salt rub seasoned baked potatoes with a crispy skin. The best baked potato ever!
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Our air fryer baked potatoes are a well-loved recipe, one of our favorite ways to use our air fryer and make baked potatoes.
No one can resist the crispy seasoned potato skin outside and the fluffy and delicious interior. Together it’s so perfect you don’t even need to use toppings!
When you put on the seasonings, it just takes the potatoes to another level because it’s cooking it at high heat with air circulating the entire potato, air frying it!
Ingredient notes
- Idaho or Russet Baking Potatoes – Russet and Idaho potatoes are the best for making baked potatoes. The skin gets crispy, and the interior gets fluffy. A red potato or Yukon potato isn’t ideal for baking, more so roasting.
- Avocado Oil – This is our preferred high-heat oil since it has a high smoke point.
- Salt – We use regular or kosher salt; you can do it to taste.
- Granulated Garlic – We prefer granulated over powdered. It has more flavor, and it’s more coarse.
- Parsley – We use dried parsley for garlic, and we think it adds a bit of flavor too!
How to make air fryer baked potatoes
Wash the potatoes and then pierce the potatoes with a fork a few times to create holes for steam to escape.
Drizzle avocado oil onto the potatoes on a plate with the seasonings. Rub the seasonings and oil all over the potatoes.
Once the potatoes are evenly coated, place them into the air fryer basket.
Air fry the potatoes at 390 degrees F for 35-40 minutes or until the potatoes are fork-tender. How long to cook baked potatoes in the air fryer will depend on how big your potatoes are. 35-40 minutes is for a medium-sized potato.
Top with your favorite toppings like a pat of butter or a dollop of sour cream.
Recipe tips and variations
- To cut the cooking time in half, you can use smaller potatoes or even slice the potatoes in half lengthwise.
- You can use this potato seasoning on cubed potatoes as well. It’s so good!
- A bigger potato will require more time. We prefer using small or medium potatoes for baking in the air fryer.
- Our kiddos love these potatoes with ketchup, and it’s pretty darn good. 🙂
Storage and reheating tips
- Refrigerate: Store any leftover baked potatoes in a container in the refrigerator for 3-4 days.
- Reheat: To reheat we just air fry the potato at 375 degrees F for 6-10 minutes.
How to serve
Once they come out of the air fryer, you can slit the potato, pinch, and push both sides to open it. We like to top our potato with a dollop of sour cream or a pat of butter.
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.
Frequently asked questions
A small medium baked potato in the air fryer at 390 degrees F should cook for a total of 35-40 minutes. The bigger your potatoes are the more time they will take to cook.
You will not get crispy skin on a potato in the microwave. Microwaves result in more of a gluey potato, deplete nutrients, and won’t pack as much flavor as an air fryer baked potato.
I would say no, but I’ve actually had a batch of potatoes have one burst open. Creating small holes “piercing with a fork” helps the air escape.
Yes! Sweet potatoes come out delicious in the air fryer as well. See our air fryer baked sweet potatoes recipe.
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Air Fryer Baked Potato Recipe – Baked Garlic Parsley Potatoes
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- 3 Idaho or Russet Baking Potatoes
- 1-2 Tablespoons Avocado Oil
- 1 Tablespoon Kosher Salt
- 1 Tablespoon Granulated Garlic
- 1 Teaspoon Parsley
Instructions
- Scrub and wash the potatoes and then pierce the potatoes with a fork a few times to create holes for steam to escape.
- Place the potatoes onto a plate and drizzle avocado oil onto the potatoes. Then sprinkle on the seasoning. Rub the seasonings and oil all over the potatoes.
- Once the potatoes are evenly coated, place them into the air fryer basket.
- Air fry the potatoes at 390 degrees F for 35-40 minutes or until the potatoes are fork-tender.
- Top with your favorite toppings like a pat of butter or dollop of sour cream.
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Nutrition
The nutritional information is automatically calculated and can vary based ingredients and products used. If the nutrition numbers are important for you we recommend calculating them yourself.
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Our air fryer sweet potatoes are a must try. It’s just as good as our air fryer baked potato but sweeter.
Courtney,
These look amazing but how long would I cook the mini potatoes for? They are about quarter sized.
Thanks
Hi Shauna! I’d try about 20-25 minutes to start if they’re baby potatoes 🙂
This air fryer baked potato was a hit, oh yeah!
Could you tell me what Temperature we would cook these potatoes in a Celsius oven in Australia please…
Chris n Truus Farnham
If you’re using a Celsius air fryer it would be 200 I believe. 🙂
Looks good.. I have a power air fryer… I like how you wiped your hands on your dress, lol….
Haha, you just made me rewatch it! It’s actually an apron that is pretty dressy 🙂
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
Thanks for the sweet comment, Kenani!
Courtney, I just made these – delish!! Thank you for the Recipe. Question: is the sodium content correct 2336 mg??
Madi
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.
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.
One potato will cook in less time as there’s more air circulating around just one potato. Hope that helps and thank you! 🙂
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!
It’s such a good and easy recipe! I hope you enjoyed making it 😀
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?
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. “
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
It’s our favorite gadget! Hope you’re loving your new air fryer 🙂
If I wanted to wait 45 minutes for a Baked Potato, I would use the Oven. I’m going to trying microwaving it for a few minutes & then crisping it up in the Air Fryer.
You can absolutely microwave it, but microwaves do deplete the nutrients. Our article mentions why we prefer using the air fryer over using the large oven. It heats up the whole house using a large oven and the potatoes are so much fluffier and crispy on the outside in the air fryer. Everyone loves our air fryer baked potato recipe and it’s definitely worth the wait. That being said, we hope you enjoy with the alternations 🙂
Sooo good!
thank you, Rebecca! 😀
The ONLY way to cook potatoes!
Yesss! One of our favorite ways too 😀
Is there a chart somewhere that tells how much a potato weighs as to how long to cook it?
We do not have a chart, but we go for about 20-25 minutes for smaller potatoes. If cut up we do about 15 minutes.
These are the best baked potatoes! They are so easy to make too.
So glad you enjoyed!
Do you use garlic powder or minced garlic?
We use granulated garlic, a bit more coarse than powdered. 🙂
These baked potatoes were amazing! The best baked potato I have ever eaten!
That’s exactly how I cook my potatoes but in the oven. I learned long ago that if u wrap your potatoes in foil u actually just steam them but coating them with oil and a good dose of salt actually ROASTS them! 😱 It opened my world wide! I just purchased an air fryer and I will have to try the potatoes in there now. Thanks for the idea!
Tasty and healthy.
Best potatoes I have ever made! Only way to make them from now on. Highly recommend this Air fry recepie for baked potato!
Aww, thank you! So glad you enjoyed!!
Thank you
I would really like to try the air fryer cooking but I do not know the best brand or model to buy. I would be cooking for just 2 people. Would you have any suggestions. Thanks so much.
We love our Cuisinart Air Fryer! It does so much more than just air frying so it’s a win for our family!
Top Shelf!
No other method compares!
Do this once and u r hooked
Woohoo! They are the best!!!
I did exactly what the directions said…It was good but I was disappointed they weren’t as crispy as I was expecting. Crispy to me is a crunch and not sure what I did wrong…Maybe a higher temp? or longer time? Not sure
It’s crispy on the outside compared to what you’d typically get from a foiled wrapped baked potato in the oven which is usually soggy and sometimes wet on the outside. 🙂
Really awesome recipe! Skin was crisp and the flavor was good. Only issue was mine took an hour and 10 minutes in the air fryer, but it was a big potato so makes sense. Yum!
So glad you enjoyed it!! Yes bigger potatoes need more time depending on the size 🙂
Do you rotate the basket the whole time or not at all?
You can flip them half way through the cooking time if your air fryer doesn’t have good airflow 🙂
Great recipe! I did have to cook them longer than posted but they turned out great! Will definitely use this from now on for our baked potatoes!
Yay! We’re so glad you enjoyed the recipe 🙂 Some potatoes will need more or less time depending on the size.