Can you cook toad in the hole in your air fryer? – Yes, you can, and we have a recipe for making 6 mini toads in the holes in my air fryer to share with you.
What even is a toad in the hole?
Toad in the Hole is a classic dinnertime meal of breakfast sausages in a batter, like a Yorkshire pudding with a sausage.
Mini
A mini toad in the hole is made with chipolata sausages. These are thinner and smaller types of breakfast sausage that cook more quickly than a traditional breakfast sausage, and this is ideal for an air fryer to make a quicker cooking meal.
Mini tins
The mini toad in the holes needs these mini loaf tins from Amazon. Any mini loaf tins you already have will work if they fit in the air fryer. My original loaf tin tray in the traditional fan oven wouldn’t fit in the air fryer, so Amazon mini tins came to the rescue.
Six
Six is the number of mini toads in the hole tins that would fit in my air fryer. If you can take more, you can quickly scale up this recipe. If your air fryer only takes 4 mini loaf tins, then you can keep the quantity of batter and give the toads a bit more hole, adding a minute to the cooking time.
Recipe
6 mini air fryer toad in the holes, serves two people (with veg)
- 6 chipolatas (I used Tesco finest, but any will work)
- 1 and a half teaspoons of vegetable oil
- 1 egg
- A third of a cup of self-raising flour
- Milk to make a dropping batter
- A splash of vinegar (if you like)
- A pinch of salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
Make the batter
- Break the egg into a jug
- add salt, pepper and a splash of vinegar (or any seasoning you prefer)
- lightly beat the egg with the seasoning
- add 1/3 cup of self-raising flour to the egg and mix
- Add milk gradually to make a thick pouring paste batter
By gradually adding the milk and mixing between each glug of milk, you can quickly gauge a dropping consistency batter that will pour out of the jug but not too thin. Put the batter to one side to rest while you prep the toads.
Put the mini loaf tins in the air fryer basket.
Place a quarter teaspoon of vegetable oil in the bottom of each toad-in-the-hole tin. (The chipolatas I used were not very high in fat, so a little extra helps the toad and hole release from the tin).
Cook the chipolatas in the air fryer for 5 minutes at 160°C (320°F).
No need to preheat the air-fryer. Use the preheating air fryer time to cook the chipolatas over five minutes. Ignore any food-turning notifications.
After 5 minutes timer is up, turn the temperature to 190°C (375°F) and cook for 2 minutes plus the re-heating time.
You should now hear the fat bubbling for the last few minutes
Batter time
With the final 2 minutes up, remove the air fryer basket and pour the batter into each of the 6 mini loaf tins.
Put the basket back into the air fryer and cook for 8 minutes.
Your mini toad in the holes is now ready. Serve with your favourite veg for a balanced meal.
Tips:
Use our unique tool for the job to make getting the mini tins out of the air fryer basket easier. We have a post about it here.
More chipolatas? Double the chipolatas to 2 per tin if you like more sausage. Increase the initial cooking time by two minutes.
More batter? Yes, you can easily double the batter quantity to 2 eggs etc. Then cook the final stage twice as long. Check the colour of the batter part way towards the end of the second half to see if it’s nice and brown.