Recipe This | Air Fryer Garlic Potatoes With Bacon (2024)

Air Fryer Garlic Potatoes With Bacon is inspired by my favourite steak restaurant here in Portugal. Loaded with lots of garlic and bacon, it is my dream air fryer potato recipe.

Our Air Fryer garlic potatoes recipewas originally published in the December of 2015 in the early days of RecipeThis. We have updated it for you with new pictures, lots more information andshared with you why air fryer garlic potatoes are perfect for bingeing on!

Air Fryer GarlicPotatoes With Bacon

We would all be telling whitelies if we didn’t admit to wanting to recreate favourite restaurant meals athome. We will often be at a restaurant and wondering how easy it is to make andif we could make it at home.

When you go to a steak restaurantyou wonder about their sauce, at a Chinese you wonder where they get their soysauce from because it tastes better than your own, or you could be at an Indianrestaurant and wondering where they source their spice from because the localIndian restaurant does the best ever curries!

We have had a favouriterestaurant ever since we moved to Portugal. It is a 45-minute drive away butwell worth the distance. It serves a lot of steak and fish dishes including steakon the stone (unheard of in many countries), homemade mayonnaise, the best evergarlic potatoes and the puddings are so worth having.

The one thing we have alwaysliked the most are the garlic potatoes. They are cooked with garlic and baconand I can’t resist asking for more. The worst thing is that they come withunlimited portions of garlic potatoes so by the end of the night (especiallyafter I have had pudding) I feel incredibly full ????

This recipe when cooked in ourair fryer, that I have created is my take on theclassic Portuguese garlic potatoes with bacon and beware you will want extra!

The above was written back in 2015 when we would eat there regularly. Sadly, the restaurant in question has now raised its prices and doesn’t offer the same meal deals. Good job I have my own steak stone at home and an air fryer for making delicious garlic potatoes with loads of bacon.

Air Fryer Garlic Potatoes

We allhave our own opinion of what makes delicious air fryer garlic potatoes, andthis is mine. I live in Portugal and the cuisine always starts with garlic andextra virgin olive oil. If you don’t like either, you better not eat out inPortugal as you would struggle to find an item on the menu that doesn’t havegarlic and quality local olive oil.

It alsomakes an excellent base for making delicious air fryer garlic potatoes.You could season the garlic potatoes, to however you like them, just rememberit starts with these main ingredients:

• Peeled & CubedPotatoes
• Sliced Bacon
• Whole Garlic Cloves
• Extra Virgin Olive Oil

You can thenuse our air fryer garlic potatoes as the base and then add your favouriteseasonings. In the Milner house we LOVE to season with just salt and pepperand sometimes with some fresh rosemary or some fresh chives.

Though you could spice them up with taco seasoning for a Mexican night, add garam masala for Indian night or even Chinese five spice for a Chinese buffet night.

Air Fryer Cubed Potatoes

I am luckyto be married to a chef. Yet instead of working in a restaurant he is now thechef at Recipe This, and it is great to work side by side. The great thingabout having Dominic at home is his quick dinners that he makes for me when neitherof us can be bothered to cook. When you have been on your feet all day and youjust want to binge on a takeaway.

ButDominic would call his air fryer cubed potatoes and they would be like quickpotatoes compared to my air fryer garlic potatoes with bacon.

Into the air fryer would go white potatoes that have been cubed without being peeled, so think air fryer potato wedges just into smaller pieces. Then they would be thrown into the air fryer along with some extra virgin olive oil and a little salt and pepper.

That will be it and he would serve it up for me with some air fryer chicken breast and that would be a midweek lunch, normally when either we were tired on a night or for lunch when I am working in the office.

Totally delicious and a great plan B to my air fryer garlic potatoes if you are in a rush. Plus, if you wanted to follow my recipe for garlic potatoes and left the skin on, it would give you a quicker prep recipe to follow.

Air Fryer DicedVs Cubes Vs Chunks

It took me a minute or two to come up with a title for thisrecipe and Dominic and I decided that air fryer garlic potatoes with bacon wasthe perfect name. But it’s a case of we are from Northern England and what wecall them is not the same as what they would be called in the US, Australia,Canada or even Asia.

You might look at the cubed raw potato and call it diced.

I don’t really mind what it is called, but whatever we docall it, garlic, potatoes and bacon are heaven in the air fryer.

How To Air Fry GarlicPotatoes?

The great thing about making airfryer garlic potatoes is that there is a process of quick prep, throw thecontents of the bowl into the air fryer basket and let the air fryer do thehard work for you.

It is split into thefollowing stages:

• Peel and cube the potatoes – This probably takes the longest. Though you can take Dominic’s advice and cube them unpeeled like a small potato wedge.

• Peel the garlic cloves – This is the most time-consuming part for me so once this is done, the hard work is over and done with.

• Slice the bacon – Use your favourite bacon that works well in the air fryer and slice into chunks.

• Bowl it – Add all your ingredients including the olive oil, any seasonings you would like and the ingredients you have already prepped into a bowl. Mix with your hands and load it into the air fryer.

It now cooks in the air fryerand you can decide what you’re having it with. Or if I was on the ultimate binge,I would be grating some cheese to go on top!

More Air FryerPotato Recipes

In the Milner house we LOVE our air fryer potatoes. Infact, our air fryer potato wedges were our very first recipe and by the end ofour first year we had a LOT of air fryer potato recipes on the blog. Here are afew more:

• Air Fryer Potato Wedges – Recently updated and our first ever air fryer recipe, we love to eat potato wedges in the air fryer.
• Air Fryer Breakfast Potatoes – Very similar to making garlic potatoes and perfect for breakfasts especially if you want to prep the night before.
• Air Fryer Rosemary Roast Potatoes – Another favourite of ours and perfect with lamb in the slow cooker. You can also play about with the recipe and swap the rosemary for your favourite seasoning.

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