Once a novelty, air fryers have emerged as a healthier, oil-free cooking phenomenon and dedicated cookbooks are helping home chefs fully utilise these popular appliances. With optimised recipes for everything from wonderfully crispy fries and onion rings to juicy fried chicken and wings, air fryer cookbooks are showing home cooks how circulating hot air can crisp and fry foods just as delicious as traditional deep frying, without all the added calories from oil. From flaky fish fillets to fried cinnamon rolls, air fryer cookbooks are making “fry” a forbidden word of the past. These convenient guides provide the inspiration and know-how for deep frying traditional foods in a healthier way.
The Best Air Fryer Cookbooks at WHSmith
1. Air-Fryer Cookbook (THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER): Quick, Healthy and Delicious Recipes for Beginners

Fry with less guilt: The wildly popular Sunday Times bestseller Air-Fryer Cookbook is a beginner’s dream for making quick, healthy, guilt-free air-fried favourites. The 85 recipes were specially designed to be fast and intimidating so anyone can turn out crave-worthy fried chicken, fries, and more using little to no oil. This cookbook takes the guesswork out of air frying so home cooks can avoid fat without sacrificing taste.
2. Poppy Cooks: The Actually Delicious Air Fryer Cookbook: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Tasty air-frying made simple: Food blogger Poppy O’Toole’s fuss-free recipes in Actually Delicious Air Fryer Cookbook use the hot air appliance to whip up unexpected delights from pizza to pineapple tarts. With minimal ingredients and easy instructions, it’s air frying made simple and full of flavour. No wonder it’s a Sunday Times bestseller.
3. The Complete Air Fryer Cookbook: 140 super-easy, everyday recipes and techniques
An Airy Education in Oil-Free Frying: With over 140 recipes and techniques, The Complete Air Fryer Cookbook is a masterclass education in making the most of this healthy appliance. From fried favourites to baked bread, this cookbook leaves no air-frying potential unexplored. Consider it your guide to reinventing frying in a fresh, oil-free way.
4. The Air Fryer Cookbook: Easy, delicious, inexpensive and healthy dishes using UK measurements: The Sunday Times bestseller

Air-fried fast food classics: Celebrity chef Todd English’s Air Fryer Cookbook uses UK recipes to create slimmed-down yet still indulgent versions of fried chicken, doughnuts, and more fast food favourites. With lighter takes on crave-worthy comforts, this Sunday Times bestseller makes air frying satisfying.
5. How to Make Anything in an Air Fryer: 100 quick, easy and delicious recipes
Fry absolutely anything with ease: How to Make Anything in an Air Fryer’s 100 quick and clever recipes mean you can easily air fry unexpected foods from fajitas to apple pies and everything between. With these fast recipes, the possibilities are unlimited and oil is never required.
6. Bored of Lunch: The Healthy Air Fryer Book: THE NO.1 BESTSELLER
Launching light with air-fried Takeout Faves: Bored of Lunch’s air fryer recipes reinvent lighter versions of tasty takeout classics like spring rolls, sweet chilli chicken, and fries. As a Sunday Times bestselling cookbook, these recipes are proof that healthy air frying doesn’t mean sacrificing flavour.
7. Slimming Eats Made in the Air Fryer: Tasty recipes to save you time – all under 600 calories

Guiltless air-fried indulgences under 600 calories: Slimming Eats Made in the Air Fryer serves up diet-friendly delights like fritters, arancini balls, samosas and more, all under 600 calories! These recipes make the air fryer your dieting secret weapon.
8. The Ultimate Air-Fryer Cookbook
An anthology of air-fried recipes for every occasion: With over 100 breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack and dessert recipes, The Ultimate Air-Fryer Cookbook highlights how this appliance can cook just about any dish. An air fryer encyclopaedia bursting with possibilities.
9. Easy Air Fryer: 75 simple recipes with UK measurements
UK Air-frying made easy for beginners: The recipes in Easy Air Fryer use handy UK measurements to air fry British favourites from fish and chips to scones in minutes. With no experience required, this cookbook makes air frying unintimidating.
10. Cook Smart: Air Fryer: 90 quick and easy energy-saving recipes

Save money and your waistline by air frying: Cook Smart: Air Fryer offers 90 fast, oil-free recipes to make energy- and budget-saving meals from seared scallops to lemon drizzle cake. The recipes prove air frying can be healthy, affordable and convenient.
Also Read – Curated Collection Of Fiction Books: Discover Timeless Classics And Contemporary Gems
Conclusion
While air fryers come with basic preset programs and recipes to get you started, dedicated air fryer cookbooks can take your oil-free air-frying skills to the next level. Offering a wider variety of intuitively designed recipes optimised specifically for these unique small appliances, WHSmith’s air fryer cookbooks provide the tools to move beyond the manual and get the most versatility from the air fryer. With specialised recipes that perfectly balance timing and temperatures, they provide easy instructions so anyone can cook delicious fried foods without oil. From crispy Brussels sprouts to bacon-wrapped shrimp, air fryer cookbooks eliminate the learning curve and make healthy oil-free cooking fun and foolproof. For more information visit Xprrtupdates.