These chicken nuggets deliver crispy outsides and tender insides, in just minutes!
Frozen vs. Fresh Chicken Nuggets
Frozen chicken nuggets are faster and easier to make than fresh chicken nuggets.
Annnd, with the air fryer their quicker and easier to make than ever!
If you want to try your hand at a scratch recipe you could try these veggies nuggets.
How to Make Them
- Remove the amount of frozen nuggets from the freezer bag.
- Place the nuggets into the air fryer basket (no need to oil unless you want to).
- Air Fry at 400F/204C for 10-12 minutes. If you’re using veggie nuggets your timing will be around 6-8 minutes.
- Serve with your favorite dipping sauce.
Sauce is the Boss
We have a few favorite dipping sauces.
- Dr. Pepper BBQ Sauce
- Homemade BBQ Sauce
Yep, Tyson chicken nuggets will work in the air fryer.
Yes, veggie nuggets or vegetarian nuggets will air fry perfectly.
That’s not ideal. It’s better to put them side by side.
Air Fryer Frozen Chicken Nuggets
Ingredients
- 1 package Frozen chicken nuggets
Instructions
- Remove the frozen nuggets from the freezer bag.
- Place the nuggets into the air fryer basket (no need to oil unless you want to).
- Air Fry the frozen chicken nuggets at 400F/204C for 10-12 minutes. If you are using veggie nuggets your timing will be around 6-8 minutes.
- Serve with your favorite dipping sauce.
Video
Nutrition
Air Fryers can vary greatly. Please take the time to learn your specific air fryer. You may need to adjust times and temperatures based upon your air fryer. All though this website attempts to provide accurate nutritional information, the information should only be considered an estimate. Varying factors such as different product types, different brands, etc. can change nutritional information. It is your responsibility as a consumer to read all labels to make sure the ingredients fit your dietary needs as well as calculate your own nutritional information as a double check.
We updated this post!
Recently we took some new photos to add to this post. You can see the old photos below. This is the same recipe, but we have also added new tips and tricks to be sure that this is the BEST air fryer frozen chicken nugget recipe yet!
These nuggets look so delicious. I’m hungry now!
Do come back and let me know when you make these!
this sounds like a much healthier way to fry food than using oil.
Yes, it is!
This is a great idea! I can’t wait to give this a try!
Great, please be sure to come back and let us know how it went!
Well it doesn’t get any easier than this!! I love the versatility of the air fryer and I’m still so intrigued by it!
It is pretty amazing, that’s for sure!
Definitely the easiest way to fry up a packet of frozen chicken nuggets. 🙂
For sure! Glad you like them too!
I made my grandson some dino nuggets using the temp and time. They worked out perfect, Thank you
Yay, that is great to hear Eleanor!
My kids loved this!
Hi Kami, so glad you kids like the air fryer frozen chicken nuggets, it does make cooking them a snap!!
Making nuggets in the air fryer is very tasty. Thanks for the temp suggestion. It worked!
You are so welcome Velda!
Thanks for the temp and time, worked great.
You are welcome Thelma! Glad the temp worked great for your frozen nuggets!
Super easy, so glad I tried this. Temp was spot on!
Hi Bill, glad the time and temp worked well for you! Enjoy those air fryer chicken nuggets!
My kids love nuggets in the air fryer. This temp was great.
Yay! Glad the temp was spot on for you Jerry!
I searched for this in google and your site came up right away. So thankful to have found it. My frozen nuggets turned out great.
Hi Kenny, so glad your frozen nuggets turned out great in the air fryer! Happy to help!
I already own and thoroughly enjoy using my Cosori 8-qt multi-cooker and 8.5 qt air fryer. I pretty much use either my own or the other every single day.
Lillian Collison ||
Thanks Lillian glad to hear you like your Cosori!