Sometimes all you’re looking for is to complete your meal with a quick and delicious side dish like these Air Fryer Biscuits. Easy to make, easy to clean and perfect every time. We guarantee you’ll be making these on a nightly basis!
Delicious Keto Side Dishes
When it comes to changing your diet the hardest part can often be what foods to eat. We all know you can’t go wrong with a steak or some chicken thighs, but what to pair with that healthy protein with can often be a challenge. If these air fryer biscuits aren’t cutting it or you’re looking for a change up we’ve got you covered! Some of our favorites are:
- Cauliflower Mac and Cheese
- Low Carb Onion Rings
- Cheesy Keto Garlic Bread (toasted and spread with butter is our favorite way!)
You can check out our food blog for more side dishes and dessert recipes to truly complete your meal!
Using An Air Fryer
I’ll admit we jumped on the air fryer train a bit late, but now we can’t recommend it enough! We use it several times a week and have experimented with different meats and side dishes. There a couple tips you want to be sure to follow when cooking in an air fryer.
- Don’t overfill or overlap your meats. This will ensure even cooking and a crispier outcome. No one likes a steamed steak!
- Flip or toss meat and veggies. This will help the air circulation reach every part of the food.
- Spray with coconut oil to prevent sticking, especially for breaded food. We like to use coconut oil spray, but vegetable oil spray will work well also.
- Use parchment paper or foil to line the bottom for easier clean up.
You can check out this article for some other great tips to help you use your air fryer to its maximum potential!
Oh, and don’t forget to check out the list of the best keto air fryer recipes!
Make The Biscuits
Using an air fryer could not be easier. All you do is add the foods, start and voila, food cooked perfect every time. Clean up is even easier! My favorite part about these air fryer biscuits, taste aside is that you can make them into any shape you want.
The dough can be a bit sticky, but it’s easy to work with and the shape of your biscuits is up to you. In the video we show you two methods you can give a try:
- Line the bottom with parchment paper and place the dough in blobs. Your result will be round, slightly misshapen biscuits!
- Place the dough in cupcake liners (don’t forget to grease them!) or silicone molds. Your result will be taller, muffin like biscuits. If you’re serving these at a dinner party or holiday dinner I would personally go the cupcake liner route for better presentation!
Either way you make them, you can’t make them wrong.
Dinner Is Served!
Serve these low carb air fryer biscuits up with warm with butter as the perfect side dish to tonights family dinner. They’ll also make for a great roll replacement at holiday dinners this year. You can change up the add-ins to amp up the flavor and meal prep them for the week.
If I was going to meal prep these for a week of dinners I would fill them with pepper jack cheese, bacon and scallions. What would you do?
Recipe can be quickly added to MyFitnessPal – Search “KetoConnect – Air Fryer Biscuits”
Air Fryer Biscuits
What You Need:
- Air Fryer
Ingredients:
- 1 cup almond flour
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp pink himalayan salt
- 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tbsp butter, melted
- 2 tbsp sour cream
Instructions:
- Combine the almond flour, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl. Mix in the cheddar cheese by hand until well combined.
- Add eggs, butter, and sour cream to the center and blend with a large fork, spoon, or your hands, until a sticky batter forms.
- Fit a piece of parchment paper into your air fryer basket. Drop ¼ cup-sized (for large) or 2 tablespoon-sized (for small) portions of batter onto the parchment.
- Air Fry/”Bake” at 400 degrees F for 6 minutes (for small) to 10 minutes (for large), until golden brown and cooked through. Repeat with remaining batter as needed. Serve immediately!
- Note: recipe can yield 9 small biscuits or 5 large biscuits. Nutrition is for 9 small biscuits.
- Alternatively, you could place the batter in silicone muffin liners and air fry them for taller biscuits (yields 7-9, bakes 10-12 minutes depending on how much you fill them).
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Notes
Written by
Megha Barot
Megha has always been a passionate cook, but she took this to a new level after starting her keo journey in 2015. She loves creating new recipes and producing educational content for KetoConnect, which she co-founded in 2016 with Matt. Her passion for healthy eating and personal development continues to thrive. She's the proud mom of two awesome kids.
OMG Thank you. Only I am doing keto in my household and this went great with Pot roast I made for the family. Lifesaver and was trying out a biscuit within 10 minutes of gathering the ingredients and cooking the first batch. Totally recommend
Glad you liked it!
I’ve been making these at least once a week as a breakfast option for my diabetic kids. We love them. I use yogurt instead of sour cream (since we don’t have sour cream here in Brazil) and always add something tasty like sausage and green onions. Delicious. Thank you so much.
Can I use curd instead of sour cream?
I have died and gone to heaven. I am a breadaholic and I have been missing it so bad. Finding these biscuits and chaffles have been my keto salvation. Thank you from my whole heart for sharing this recipe with us. My grumpy hubby is a most pleasant person to be around now that he has a delicious bread substitute. I even tried them adding some activated yeast and my head almost exploded with happiness. Oh I so love keto now.
Haha, so glad you are loving these!
Phenomenal! these are so good… I can see adding herbs to make them taste like the red lobster biscuit. so so good. I did adjust the temp to 350 on the air flyer and they came out perfect. Thank you!
Turned at awesome! My family loved it! Thanks for all you do!
Turned out awesome, used silicone muffin cups, baked for 6 minutes. Loved the cheesy taste. Now I want to find a bread recipe.
Just made these tonight- so good!!!! Hubby and I thoroughly enjoyed them and will be making them often. Thank you!
Made the air fryer biscuits today with mozzarella cheese and they were delicious. Will make again.
I just made them, add some Italian seasoning and they were spectacular.
Have you tried incorporating powdered cheddar cheese in any of your mug bread recipes, I found it cuts thru the almond or coconut strong flavors that are ok but weird, so the bread actually tastes more like bread and not a strong cheesy taste. I also add everything but bagel seasoning thru out the batter so each slice has some not just the top.
I have been practicing the Adkins diet for 16 yrs and it had gotten boring at times, your Keto recipes make meal preparation fun and have inspired me.
Keep up the great work.
Can you used traditional muffin liners rather than silicone ones or will the biscuits stick too much?
These are soooooo good. I definitely would and will make them with pepper Jack next time. Amazingly delicious
I agree with Angela! These are dangerously good! Will be making many more in the future.
I went to the fridge to get the next day and my son had eaten them all the night before.
There were two things about these biscuits I found to be difficult.
1. Waiting for them to cool and
2. Restraining myself from eating too many
Hahaha – could be worse, right?!! 🙂
Can I leave out the sour cream? My daughter has an allergy to yeast & vinegar but she’d love some biscuits. Any suggestions on what to substitute? Cream of tartar? Or omit all together?
You could try coconut cream as a substitute or maybe a plain whole fat greek yogurt.
I used 1 cup Mozzarella instead if cheddar, 1 tsp cinnamon, and 2 tsp vanilla and 1/2 tsp monk fruit extract. Tasted like a cinnamon roll! One could glaze if you wanted to!
I made them in the oven I don’t have an air fryer… they are amazingly good I made them in my mini cupcake pan so I figured
2 carbs for 2. thank you for a great recipe.
These were amazing! And so easy to make! My family loved them as well!
It would be great if someone actually replied to some of the questions!
I have some of the same questions!
Please!!
😀
What question are you needing to be answered?
If you could answer the question regarding whether these can be frozen that would be great 🙂
Yes, you should definitely be able to freeze them!