Air Fryer Loaded Potato Fries

Game day is snack day for many of us- here is one of our favorites. Quick and easy loaded fries made in the air fryer is one of Cathy’s favorite party appetizers! This Air Fryer Loaded Potatoes recipe offers all the tender and fluffy inside and crispy skin goodness you love, with the added bonus of being ready in a fraction of the time.

How to make Air Fryer Loaded Potato Fries

Ingredients

• 14 oz frozen French fries of choice
• 1 tbsp taco seasoning
• avocado oil
• 4 oz cotija cheese grated, or see recipe note
• ½ tomato diced
• ½ avocado diced
• 2 green onions sliced

Sauce

• ⅓ cup sour cream see note
• ½ teaspoon taco seasoning
• ½ teaspoon sriracha sauce

Directions:

1. Preheat the air fryer at 400°F/200°C for 5 minutes.
2. Place the fries in the air fryer basket. Lightly spray with avocado oil and toss with taco seasoning.
3. Cook at 400°F/200°C for 12-15 minutes, shaking the basket every 4-5 minutes.
4. While the fries are cooking, grate the cotija cheese, whisk together the sauce ingredients, and chop the tomato, avocado, and green onions.
5. Once the fries are finished, remove them from the air fryer basket and line the basket with air fryer parchment paper.
6. Place the fries back into the air fryer basket and top the fries with the cheese.
7. Cook for an additional 3-4 minutes at 350°F/175°C , or until the cheese is melted to your liking.
8. Carefully remove the fries. Leaving them on the parchment paper makes clean-up a snap!
9. Top the fries with tomatoes, avocados, and green onions, and sauce.

Recipe Notes

Cheese option: You can substitute for Colby Jack cheese if you want your fries to stick together more with that “cheese pull”.

Sauce option: You can use mayo instead of sour cream here if you want less of a sour cream sauce and more of a spicy fry sauce.

Recipe source: Cathy Yoder At Yoder’s EmpoweredCooks.com multimedia platform, users have access to numerous resources: her “Air Fryer Recipes” cookbook filled with over 150 recipes; an array of specialized digital download air fryer recipe e-cookbooks; an air fryer cooking catalog with over 300 video recipes.