Homemade Air Fryer Potato Chips (with an Oven Option)

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With just three natural ingredients, you can make delicious homemade air fryer potato chips in no time.

With just three natural ingredients, you can make delicious homemade air fryer potato chips in no time. They are easier than you might think to make, and by far healthier for you than chips that you can buy in the grocery store!

potato chips in a bowl

If you have a hard time saying no to potato chips, you will love these homemade chips. They are so crispy and delicious even though they are made with very little oil. Serve them with your favorite dip; we like to dip them in caramelized onion dip or sriracha dipping sauce.

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potato chip ingredients: potatoes, oil salt

Here’s How to Make Homemade Potato Chips in the Air Fryer

Clean and dry the potatoes. Slice them into thin slices using a sharp knife, mandolin slicer or a food processor slicing blade.

Tip! Make sure the slices are similar in size and evenly cut, uneven slices will cause the potato chips to cook unevenly.

potato slices in a bowl with water

Place the potato slices into a large bowl of cold water and let them soak for about 30 minutes. Drain the potato slices and dry them well with a towel or paper towel.

Tip! Soaking the potato slices in water will help to remove the excess starch from the potatoes.

Once the potatoes are dried off, place the potato slices into a large bowl and add the olive oil; toss to coat all of the slices with the oil.

potato slices in a bowl with oil pouring in

potato slices on an air fryer tray

Place potato slices in the air fryer basket or tray in a single layer and sprinkle with sea salt.

Set the temperature on your air fryer to 400 degrees f, and follow the instructions on your air fryer to cook the potatoes. They should start to turn brown after about 15 minutes. Cooking time can vary depending on your air fryer.

Potato slices cooked on an air fryer tray

Tip! Some chips will begin to turn brown and crispy before others, remove them from the air fryer as soon as they are golden brown and crispy.

Ingredient Notes and Substitutions

Potatoes. The best potatoes for making air-fried potatoes is Yukon gold potatoes or russet potatoes. Red potatoes contain a higher amount of starch and more waxy in texture. They won’t get as crisp in the air fryer.

Substitute russet potatoes or Yukon gold potatoes with sweet potatoes for sweet potato chips. Sweet potatoes cook faster, so you may have to adjust the cook time a bit. Start checking them after 10 minutes.

To peel or not to peel your potatoes. Most of the nutrients are in the potato skins, so I always leave them on. Plus leaving the skin on reduces the amount of prep time, so it’s a win-win. If you don’t like potato skins on your potatoes, you can use a vegetable peeler to remove the skin before slicing the potatoes.

Oil. Olive oil the oil that I always use when I make air-fried potato chips, it can be replaced with an equal amount of avocado oil.

Sea salt. Adds a touch of flavor, you can leave it out and it can be replaced with table salt or kosher salt.

potato chips on a board

How to Make Air Fryer Chips in the Oven

If you don’t have an air fryer, you can still make these crispy chips in the oven. Here’s how:

  • Preheat the oven to 400 degrees f.
  • Place a baking rack (you can use a cookie cooling rack) on top of a baking sheet
  • Arrange the potato slices on the baking rack and bake them in the preheated oven for 15 minutes.
  • Remove the chips as the start to brown, it could take up to 20 minutes or a little more for all of the chips to be ready.

Note: If you don’t have a baking rack, you can place the potato slices onto a parchment-lined baking sheet and turn them halfway through the cooking cycle.

How to Store Your Chips

For best results, store your crispy potato chips in an airtight container at room temperature for two to three days.

Note: These taste best when they are freshly made, and might be a little soggy after a day or two.

Serving Suggestions

These crispy crunchy potato chips taste great all by themselves, with homemade caramelized onion dip, blue cheese dip, with a delicious hummus wrap, or you can turn them into potato nachos.

potato chips in a bowl

Flavor Your Chips

We usually go simple with our chips and season them with a little bit of sea salt, but you can use all kinds of flavors to season your chips. Here are a few ideas to sprinkle onto your chips before baking them.

  • Your favorite bbq rub
  • Jerk seasoning
  • Chili powder & cumin combined
  • Parmesan cheese
  • Nutritional yeast
  • Fresh or dried herbs
  • Garlic Powder
  • Onion Powder
  • Sea salt and pepper

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Healthy Homemade Potato Chips (Air Fryer & oven)

With just three natural ingredients, you can make delicious homemade air fryer potato chips in no time.
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Inactive Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 55 minutes

Click on serving size to scale this recipe

Course: Appetizers & Snacks
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Healthy Homemade Potato Chips, potato chips air fryer
Servings: 80 chips
Calories: 166kcal
Author: Anne
Scale this Recipe 80 chips

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Clean the potatoes and slice them thin with a food processor, mandoline slicer or a very sharp knife.
  • Place the potato slices into a bowl and cover them with cold water; allow them to soak for 30 minutes. This will help to remove some of the starch from the potatoes.
  • Drain the potatoes and dry them well with a kitchen towel or paper towel and place them in an  empty dry bowl.
  • Add the oil and mix well so that all of the slices are covered in oil
  • Arrange the potato slices in the basket or tray of your air fryer.
  • Bake at 400 for 15 minutes, removing the chips as they start to turn golden. Some will cook faster than others.

OVEN METHOD

  • Preheat the oven to 400
  • Place a baking rack on top of a cookie sheet or line a baking pan sheet with parchment paper.
  • Arrange the oil covered potato slices on the rack and bake them for 15 minutes
  • Remove the chips as they turn golden, it could take up to 20 minutes for all of the chips to be ready
  • If you are not using a baking rack, flip the potatoes over halfway through the cooking process.

Notes

Ingredient Notes:
Potatoes. The best potatoes for making air-fried potatoes is Yukon gold potatoes or russet potatoes. Red potatoes contain a higher amount of starch and won’t get as crisp.
Substitute russet potatoes or Yukon gold potatoes with sweet potatoes for sweet potato chips. Sweet potatoes cook faster, so you may have to adjust the cook time a bit.
Seasoning suggestions:
  • Your favorite bbq rub
  • Jerk seasoning
  • Chili powder & cumin combined
  • Parmesan cheese
  • Nutritional yeast
  • Fresh or dried herbs
  • Garlic Powder
  • Onion Powder
  • Sea salt and pepper

Nutrition

Serving: 10chips | Calories: 166kcal | Carbohydrates: 30g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g | Sodium: 150mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 2g

Nutrition information provided is an estimate and can vary based on cooking methods and ingredients used

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  1. Homemade potato chips are so amazing! I’ve never done the soaking before, but am going to take on that step this time in hopes of getting them crispier.