Air Fryer Hamburgers

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These juicy air fryer hamburgers are super easy to make from scratch for a delicious, quick dinner your family will love.

Prep Time5

Cook Time6

Course: Dinner

Cuisine: American

Keyword: air fryer, burgers, dairy free, egg free, gluten free, ground beef

Servings: quarter pounders

Calories: 157kcal

Author: Tonje

Cost: cheap

Equipment

Air Fryer

Ingredients

1 lb lean ground beef (500 g)
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon pepper
½ teaspoon paprika
½ teaspoon garlic powder

Instructions

Add the beef and seasoning to a bowl, and use your hands or a spatula to combine the ingredients. Shape the burgers into similar sized patties – this recipe makes 4 quarter pounders but you can make them smaller if you prefer.
Preheat your air fryer to 390 °F / 200 °C. If you’re using very lean ground beef, you will want to spray your air fryer basket with some olive oil spray or other cooking spray to prevent the burgers from sticking to it.
Place the burgers in the basket. Air fry for 3 minutes, then flip and cook for another 3 minutes. Make sure that they are cooked through.
If you want to add cheese, you can place the cheese on top of the hamburgers, turn the air fryer off, then place them back in the basket. It’s important that the air fryer is turned off, or you might find that the cheese simply flies off the burgers!
Serve the air fryer burgers hot with your favorite toppings and sides.

Notes

The exact cooking time will vary depending on the thickness of your burgers and how done you like them. Use a meat thermometer to ensure that you get the result you want.
Don’t overcrowd the basket.
You can use any seasoning you like, or even add things like caramelized onions, crumbled feta cheese or finely chopped herbs.

Leftovers

Burgers are best served immediately, but they can be made ahead and stored for later too. I highly recommend storing the hamburger patties and toppings separately, rather than storing pre-assembled burgers (unless you want soggy buns and dry burgers!).

Store the air fried hamburgers in an airtight container in a refrigerator for up to 3 days. Reheat them quickly in an air fryer, a skillet, on the grill, or even in the microwave for a few minutes until they have warmed through.

You can also freeze the cooked burgers, and cook them in an air fryer, in an oven or on a grill from frozen.

Assemble the burgers with your warm burger patties, and enjoy!

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