Air Fryer Baked Eggs with Cheese
These easy Air Fryer Baked Eggs with Cheese are the perfect quick breakfast or brunch and can be used in so many different ways. Best of all they take less than a minute to prepare!
Servings 1 person
Calories 102kcal
Equipment
- Air Fryer
- Ramekin
- Pastry brush
- Cheese grater
- Palette knife
- Oven glove
Ingredients
- Vegetable oil for greasing
- ½ teaspoon water
- 1 large egg
- 1 heaped tablespoon 6 grams finely grated Cheddar cheese (enough to just cover egg)
- Freshly ground salt and pepper
Instructions
- Grease a ramekin with a drop of oil (or use a spray) and spread with a finger or pastry brush.
- Add ½ teaspoon of cold water.
- Gently crack egg into ramekin.
- Season with salt and pepper.
- Top with grated cheese to cover surface.
- Place ramekin in air fryer (no need to preheat) at 180C for 7 – 8 minutes (or until egg white is cooked and yolk runny or to your preference). See notes for baking more than one egg.
- Lift the ramekin out of the air fryer and allow to rest for one minute (the egg will carry on cooking).
- Run a palette knife (or similar) around the outside of the egg and lift out of the ramekin (using oven gloves). Alternatively serve in the ramekin.
- Serve on its own or with buttered toast and garnish with chives or your favourite sauce etc.
Video
Notes
Air Fryer models vary so timings based on the Cosori air fryer. You may need to adjust timings according to your air fryer and also size of egg.
If you want a runny yolk, I find 7 minutes perfect and for a solid yolk 8 minutes in the Cosori air fryer. When cooking 3 to 4 eggs the cooking time can be reduced to 6 – 7 minutes as the ramekins seem to amplify the heat in the air fryer.
If you have medium sized eggs, you only need to adjust the timings fractionally (if at all) so start off with 6 – 7 minutes.
If making more than one batch of Air Fryer Baked Eggs then the subsequent batches will need less time to cook as the air fryer will be pre-heated.