Crispy, Not Fried

50 Latin air fryer recipes: croquetas, tostones, empanadas and everything your abuela deep-fried.

An air fryer is not a fryer. It is a very small convection oven with a very fast fan, and what it is brilliant at is stripping the moisture off a surface so that surface can brown. It cannot do to a tostone what a pot of oil at 180 C does, which is why so many air fryer recipes come out pale, soft and vaguely disappointing.

So I rebuilt the recipes instead of the machine.

Fifty Latin recipes, loud and golden, without the oil. The breading is toasted in butter before it goes anywhere near the food. Fillings are colder and drier. Empanadas get an egg wash because pastry in a basket comes out roughly the colour it went in. Churros go into the freezer first. Plantains get two different temperatures depending on how black the skin is.

WHAT IS INSIDE

50 complete recipes, in grams and cups

Protein per serving on every recipe

An air fryer swap note on each one, for the machine you actually own

Six rules that make all fifty of them work, in the first four pages

A basket-size chart, so you know what fits and what has to go in batches

Five indexes and a Latin ingredient temperature table

71 pages, A4, print-ready PDF

Snacks and fritters, Mains, Sides and plantains, Sweet, Sauces and mojos.

Instant download. Read it on a phone, a tablet or print it and let it get covered in flour.

Iara Cardoso is an AI creator. The recipes are real, developed, cooked and adjusted in a home kitchen with domestic equipment, and they are written to work in yours.