36 Quick and Easy Air Fryer Breakfast Recipes That Really Deliver

1. Air Fryer Elote Avocado Toast

• Time Commitment: 18 minutes
• Why I Love It: <30 minutes, crowd-pleaser

Mexican street corn + creamy avocado toast = a fiesta in your mouth. Use your air fryer to quickly bring your bread to the ideal golden brown level of toastiness.

2. Air Fryer Breakfast Pizza Waffles

• Time Commitment: 23 minutes
• Why I Love It: <10 ingredients, <30 minutes, crowd-pleaser

These cheesy breakfast pizzas boast a winning combination of pork sausage, fluffy scrambled eggs and juicy cherry tomatoes, all piled atop a waffle that has been air fried to perfection.

3. Air Fryer Egg Rolls

• Time Commitment: 18 minutes
• Why I Love It: <10 ingredients, <30 minutes, low sugar

This egg roll recipe yields a convenient grab-and-go morning meal that can be adapted to include any combination of your favorite breakfast ingredients. We like hash browns and bacon, but you do you.

4. Everything Bagel Dogs

• Time Commitment: 15 minutes
• Why I Love It: <10 ingredients, <30 minutes, kid-friendly

For those mornings when you just can’t decide between a corn dog and a bagel. (We’ve all been there…right? Right.)

5. Crispy Air Fryer Frozen Hash Browns

• Time Commitment: 18 minutes
• Why I Love It: <10 ingredients, <30 minutes, kid-friendly

You’ll never suffer a soggy hash brown again, thanks to this air fryer recipe that turns store-bought frozen potato patties into crisp, golden beauties in the blink of an eye.

6. Air Fryer English Muffin Breakfast Pizzas

• Time Commitment: 15 minutes
• Why I Love It: <30 minutes, kid-friendly

Here, an exceedingly easy and quick breakfast pizza recipe that features a soft-cooked egg—you know, because a runny yolk makes everything more delicious.

7. Air Fryer Frittata

• Time Commitment: 9 minutes
• Why I Love It: <10 ingredients, <15 minutes

If you have a small round cake pan, you don’t need to buy any of those fancy air fryer accessories to make this nine-minute breakfast. Top it with avocado, hot sauce or more cheese (or a combination of all three).

8. Breakfast Burrito

• Time Commitment: 45 minutes
• Why I Love It: high protein, grab-and-go

Whether you’re hungover (happens to the best of us) or simply really hungry, a breakfast burrito stuffed with tater tots, cheesy scrambled eggs and avocado is the solution. Assemble a few and stash them in your freezer, then cook them up whenever you need.

9. Air Fryer Cinnamon Raisin Bagels

• Time Commitment: 20 minutes
• Why I Love It: <30 minutes, grab-and-go

The only thing better than a warm cinnamon raisin bagel slathered with a spread of your choosing is the sense of pride that comes from having made it yourself.

10. Air Fryer Vanilla Doughnut Holes

• Time Commitment: 16 minutes
• Why I Love It: <30 minutes, grab-and-go

Give Dunkin’ a run for its money (and save yours) with these indulgent and oh-so tasty air fryer doughnut holes the next time you’re craving a morning treat. (Psst: The dough comes together in a flash.)

11. Air Fryer Twice-Baked Potato

• Time Commitment: 15 minutes
• Why I Love It: <10 ingredients, <30 minutes

We’re making twice-baked breakfast potatoes a thing. During the ten minutes it takes to whip these up, fry a few eggs to top ’em off. Runny yolk + cheesy, bacon-y potatoes = instant classic.

12. Air Fryer French Toast

• Time Commitment: 9 minutes
• Why I Love It: <10 ingredients, <30 minutes

This French toast is mess-free and crazy fast to make (think: less than ten minutes), and the texture is downright dreamy. Serve it with fresh fruit, a dusting of confectioners’ sugar and lots of maple syrup.

13. Air Fryer Whole Wheat Bagels

• Time Commitment: 19 minutes
• Why I Love It: <10 ingredients, <30 minutes, whole wheat

In case you missed it, the air fryer is a bagel lover’s best friend—and if you’re looking for a (relatively) guilt-free carb fix, these light and fluffy whole wheat bagels certainly fit the bill.

14. French Toast Sticks

• Time Commitment: 15 minutes
• Why I Love It: <10 ingredients, <30 minutes, whole grain

Woo the picky kid in your life with satisfyingly crisp French toast sticks that are easy to make and even easier to eat. If you want to make them ahead, store them in the freezer and reheat in your microwave.

15. Air Fryer Doughnuts

• Time Commitment: 45 minutes
• Why I Love It: <10 ingredients, grab-and-go

There are four different ways to dress up these sinfully delicious biscuit dough doughnuts. From glazed to sprinkles, it’d safe to say none of them disappoint.

16. Custard Toast

• Time Commitment: 10 minutes
• Why I Love It: <10 ingredients, <30 minutes, crowd-pleaser

Why settle for buttered toast when you can eat a slice of bread that’s filled with creamy custard? Top this trendy TikTok toast with chocolate, fresh fruit or anything else you fancy, and prepare to swoon.

17. Air Fryer Potato Pancakes

• Time Commitment: 26 minutes
• Why I Love It: <10 ingredients, <30 minutes, low sugar

This air fryer potato pancake recipe turns yesterday’s mashed potatoes into a breakfast side that’s decidedly more appetizing than gluey microwaved leftovers. Mashed sweet potatoes would work too, FYI.

18. Air Fryer Hash Browns

• Time Commitment: 30 minutes
• Why I Love It: kid-friendly, crowd-pleaser

Frozen hash browns and bell peppers get an extra kick from chili powder and paprika in this flavorful and filling breakfast side dish.

19. Keto Cranberry Orange Muffins

• Time Commitment: 28 minutes
• Why I Love It: <30 minutes, grab-and-go

Attention keto friends: Your air fryer will make a star baker out of you yet. As it turns out, Greek yogurt and almond flour can make a pretty convincing breakfast treat.

20. Turkey Bacon Breakfast Quesadilla

• Time Commitment: 15 minutes
• Why I Love It: <10 ingredients, <30 minutes

Stuffed with scrambled eggs, cheese, turkey bacon and veggies—these quesadillas will satisfy a breakfast burrito craving without weighing you down.

21. Easy Air Fryer Omelet

• Time Commitment: 8 minutes
• Why I Love It: <10 ingredients, <30 minutes, kid-friendly

This air fryer breakfast recipe is really more of a frittata than an omelet, but we suspect you won’t care about semantics when there’s a plate of cheesy, veggie-filled goodness in front of you that came together in under ten minutes. Hot tip: Prep your filling ingredients the night before and you can just throw everything together in the morning.

22. Cranberry Cream Cheese Danish

• Time Commitment: 25 minutes
• Why I Love It: <10 ingredients, <30 minutes, low sugar, gluten-free

Impress your gluten-free brunch guests and satisfy your sweet tooth with a fruit-filled almond flour Danish that’s stuffed and drizzled with sweetened cream cheese.

23. Apple Hand Pies

• Time Commitment: 20 minutes
• Why I Love It: <10 ingredients, <30 minutes, grab-and-go

Hectic mornings are so much more pleasant when you have a travel mug of coffee in one hand and a palm-sized apple pie in the other.

24. Air Fryer Pizza Rolls

• Time Commitment: 8 minutes
• Why I Love It: <10 ingredients, <30 minutes, grab-and-go

These cheesy, saucy pizza rolls make for a satisfying, grab-and-go meal at any time of day. That said, if you have time for a sit-down breakfast, we strongly suggest you top your roll with a runny egg and dig in with a fork and knife.

25. Cauliflower Sweet Potato Tots

• Time Commitment: 55 minutes
• Why I Love It: gluten-free, crowd-pleaser

Crunchy tots with a soft, fluffy interior and a whole lot of flavor, these vegan and gluten-free morsels are downright obsession-worthy.

26. Air Fryer Potato Wedges

• Time Commitment: 52 minutes
• Why I Love It: <10 ingredients, vegan, dairy-free

These crisp-on-the-outside, soft-on-the-inside seasoned potato wedges are just dying to sop up the yolk of your sunny egg.

27. Air Fryer Mini Cinnamon Rolls

• Time Commitment: 15 minutes
• Why I Love It: <10 ingredients, <30 minutes

Presenting, flaky, buttery and oh-so sweet cinnamon rolls that aren’t the size of your face. (Not that that’s a bad thing; sometimes we’d just prefer to eat five small bites instead of one giant one.)

28. Air Fryer Keto Croissants

• Time Commitment: 58 minutes
• Why I Love It: keto-friendly, low carb, grab-and-go

Behold, a recipe for anyone who has ever looked at a flaky, buttery croissant and wondered how to make it work for their diet. This time, coconut flour is working its magic.

29. Cheesy Chicken-Stuffed, Bacon-Wrapped Jalapeños

• Time Commitment: 30 minutes
• Why I Love It: <10 ingredients, crowd pleaser, special occasion-worthy

Spicy jalapeño peppers are stuffed with shredded chicken and gooey cheese and wrapped in crispy bacon to make a brunch appetizer that looks as good as it tastes.

30. Air Fryer Sausage and Cheese Balls

• Time Commitment: 22 minutes
• Why I Love It: <10 ingredients, <30 minutes, keto-friendly

Pair them with eggs or eat them on their own—either way, you can file these protein-rich and keto-friendly breakfast meatballs under ‘morning comfort food.’

31. Twisted Bacon

• Time Commitment: 50 minutes
• Why I Love It: <10 ingredients, versatile

Here, a clever corkscrew technique ensures perfectly cooked strips of bacon every time, whilst scoring bonus points for presentation to boot.

• Time Commitment: 40 minutes
• Why I Love It: <10 ingredients, kid-friendly, high protein

What’s the secret to making waffles in your air fryer? Using the frozen, store-bought kind—they’ll crisp up as if you made them from scratch. Now for the tough part: deciding between hot sauce or maple syrup.

• Time Commitment: 28 minutes
• Why I Love It: <10 ingredients, kid-friendly, beginner-friendly

They’re called home fries, but we’ve never wanted to make them at home…until now. These golden nuggets have a crispy exterior and fluffy interior all without the annoyance of deep-frying (not to mention the cals).

• Time Commitment: 20 minutes
• Why I Love It: <30 minutes, <10 ingredients, beginner-friendly

“I love to watch water boil at 7 a.m.,” said no one ever. Instead, make a batch of hard-boiled eggs in your air fryer and never worry again about whether they’ll be cooked to your liking. And FYI, the eggs can be refrigerated for up to a week (even if they’re pre-peeled).

• Time Commitment: 15 minutes
• Why I Love It: kid-friendly, beginner-friendly, <10 ingredients, make ahead

Canned biscuit dough is the secret to homemade doughnuts in 15 minutes’ time. Finish these treats with your choice of cinnamon sugar or a vanilla glaze with rainbow sprinkles.

• Time Commitment: 12 minutes
• Why I Love It: <15 minutes, beginner-friendly, keto

We’re all for a bacon cooking method that eliminates the need to deep-clean our stove after brunch. To reduce the smoke of the bacon grease in your air fryer, put some water, bread or foil at the bottom of the basket.