Some Iceland Chicken Popsters – SOUTHERN FRIED was found in the freezer.
Can you cook Chicken Popsters in the air fryer?
Do Popsters taste any good when cooked in the air fryer?
100% Chicken Breast
Iceland Chicken Popsters are made with 100% chicken breast, coated in a southern fried style crispy coating.
Let’s see how they get on in the air fryer.
Half a bag
The cooking instructions are based on half a bag. Well, that was an 800g bag, and the current offering of the Chicken Popsters is now 600g. That is called shrinkflation—less product for the same price in almost identical packaging. Half a bag serves two if that’s all you are having. We were being lazy, and half a bag was what got cooked.
No added fat.
Use the air fryer in oven mode; omit any additional oil.
Cooking Time
The instructions were for a fan oven at 200°C (390°F) for 12 to 15 minutes. With the air fryer cooking better than a fan oven, I cut the temperature to 170°C (340°F) and 12 minutes, including the heating up time.
Dropping the temperature costs less electricity, and the air fryer still cooks the food better than our oven.
I put the chicken popsters in, set the time, set the temperature and pressed start. The heat-up time of the air fryer is much quicker than our oven, so I wasn’t worried about any overcooking. It’s more convenient to cook in the air fryer from the cold.
Shake
Partway through the cook, the air fryer beeps, and a message to turn the food over appears. For things like fries and chicken posters, that means a shake of the basket. Quick and easy. No need to stop the machine; it stops as soon as you pull on the basket. Shake and replace the basket. Cooking continues to the final beep.
Taste
With the chicken popsters cooked and dished up, they can now be tasted.
A nice crunchy outside and tender chicken inside. This is what the air firer excels at, crisp or crunchy outside without drying the inside. It cooked the Iceland Chicken Popsters to perfection.
One problem that did dampen the experience was the lack of southern fried flavour.
It was odd that they didn’t pazazz of southern spices or zing at all. Just a slight hint of pepper. It is as though the plain version got in the wrong packaging at the factory. Could these be the plain recipe in the Southern-fried packaging?
Not Southern fried.
The Other Half
There is the other half of a bag of chicken popsters in the freezer, and I will need to make some spicy dipping sauce for those when their time comes.
Cooking Times
