The BEST Air Fryer Frozen Onion Rings

Name: The BEST Air Fryer Frozen Onion Rings
Prep time: 2 min
Cook time: 8 min
Total time: 10 min
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 package Frozen Onion Rings; Dipping Sauces

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Air fryer frozen onion rings are cooked to crispy, golden brown, delicious perfection. Serve as an appetizer or a side to feed a crowd.

Serves: 3 Time: 8-10 minutes Cookbook: Red Robin Online

Are you ready to chow down on the kind of crispy onion rings that only come from your favorite restaurant without ever leaving home? We certainly were and we know you’ll love this simple way to go from frozen to done and delicious in no time.

While we love to cook from scratch in our kitchen, sometimes you can’t beat how convenient frozen foods are when you need to feed a crowd. And the best way we’ve found to cook perfectly crispy, crunchy onion rings of all different sizes is with the air fryer.

Pull out your air fryer, pick up a bag of the best frozen onion rings, and let’s get cooking!

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❤️ Why You’ll Love This Recipe
🧅 Ingredients Needed to Make Frozen Onion Rings in the Air Fryer
🍴 Equipment You’ll Need in the Kitchen
🥄 How to Make Air Fryer Frozen Onion Rings
❓ Frozen Onion Rings in Air Fryer: Tips, Tricks, and FAQs
♾️ More Air Fryer Recipes

Why You’ll Love This Recipe

Crowd Pleaser: Air fryer onion rings make a great appetizer for any get-together and they’ll disappear fast. This is one of our favorite recipes for quick apps and it really turns out the best onion rings possible.

Easy: Air frying is the easiest way to cook up onion rings. You don’t even need olive oil or cooking spray. It’s a super easy side dish to serve alongside other fan favorites like burgers and fries.

Fast: Get ready for delicious onion rings in less time than it takes to pull through the drive-through of your favorite fast-food restaurant. And these aren’t just good onion rings – these are perfect.

Ingredients Needed to Make Frozen Onion Rings in the Air Fryer

Frozen Onion Rings: This recipe is for one bag of onion rings, so choose your favorite brand. Alexia onion rings and Red Robin’s are both great. You can also use homemade onion rings.
Dipping Sauce: Choose your favorite dipping sauce to serve alongside the onion rings. Barbecue sauce is a must for us, along with other options like honey mustard or good ol’ ketchup.

Equipment Needed In the Kitchen

Air Fryer

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Tongs

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Air Fryer: We have the Ninja Foodi air fryer and absolutely love it. It has a deep fryer basket and it’s quite powerful. This recipe will work with smaller air fryers, as well, though!
Tongs: You’ll need to flip the onion rings over at the half-way point. Tongs work perfectly for this.

How to Make Air Fryer Frozen Onion Rings

Onion rings are perfect party food and ideal when you need to feed a crowd. By air frying these, you’ll put perfectly crispy, crunchy, hot onion rings on the table in minutes.

Preheat the air fryer

First up, punch that preheat button and set your unit to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. You’ll also want to set the cooking time for 8 minutes.

When the unit is preheated, lay a single layer of onion rings in the bottom of the basket without overlapping. This will make sure the hot air can circulate and evenly cook those delicious rings.

Air fry them onion rings!

Let the machine start air frying away for the first 4 minutes, then open the fryer and flip the onion rings over.

Allow the machine to finish cooking. When done, the onion rings should be steaming hot and golden brown.

Note: This recipe should work with any brand of onion rings. However, air fryer temperatures and times can vary slightly depending on the model. If this is your first time making air fryer onion rings, adhere to the temperatures and cook times listed in this recipe, but check your onion rings at 6 minutes and go from there. Alternatively, you can start with a lower temperature and check every 4 minutes to determine when they’ve reached perfect doneness.

Frozen Onion Rings in Air Fryer: Tips, Tricks, and FAQs

How should I store these?

If you have leftover onion rings, store them in an airtight container in the fridge. When ready to enjoy, reheat them in the air fryer for just a couple of minutes.

Can I still air-fry onion rings if they’re thawed?

You can! Follow the instructions above but reduce the cooking time by half.

What should I serve these with?

We recommend serving onion rings with dipping sauces such as BBQ sauce, honey mustard, ranch, and ketchup.
Onion rings also make a great side dish to serve alongside corn dogs, hot dogs, and french fries. If you’re serving several apps, you can pair them with mozzarella sticks, egg rolls, and chicken strips.

More Air Fryer Recipes

Looking for more easy air fryer recipes or apps and snacks to feed a crowd? Your air fryer is already fired up, so try these recipes, too!

Air Fryer Mozzarella Sticks: Crispy, crunchy, cheesy, gooey mozzarella sticks perfect for dunking in marinara sauce.
Air Fryer Crispy Chicken Strips: Chicken strips in three ways to please the whole family.
Air Fryer Egg Rolls: Crispy outsides and steaming insides make this a perfect app served with dipping sauce.