Recipe This | Air Fryer Ground Beef (2024)

Learn the simple method of air fryer ground beef. Cooked quickly, is delicious, drains away the fat and is the easiest way to cook ground beef that you will ever find.

Then use this ground beef air fryer recipe for your air fryer lasagne, taco meat and so much more.

This ground beef air fryer recipe was originally shared with you back in 2020 and is updated for you today with new photos and even more air fryer tips and tricks.

Ground Beef In Air Fryer

A few years now I was perfecting my air fryer lasagne recipe. I wanted to make the best lasagne in the air fryer and make it much easier and cheaper to make compared to baking lasagne in the oven.

Around the same time, I made my first air fryer taco pie.

Two different recipe styles, but both recipes that required lots of ground beef, or as us Brits call it, minced beef.

I decided to do things a little different and see what ground beef cooked in the air fryer on its own would be like.

I cooked the ground beef, and it was amazing and realised, I was onto a great idea for something different compared to the usual air fryer frozen French fries or air fryer baked potatoes that most people wanted to know how to air fry.

A few years later, I still love air frying ground beef and it is fantastic for a quick recipe go to. Or if you only have frozen, then doing our defrost mince in the microwave recipe first.

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Can You Cook Ground Beef In An Air Fryer?

Yes, you can air fry ground beef and you will love it. You can also cook other ground meats too such as ground pork, ground turkey, ground lamb and so on.

Even better, we often complain when cooking on the stovetop that we have to drain the meat before we can add sauces etc. Well thanks to the air fryer, the excess fat will go below, and it will make draining the fat even easier.

For example, this is how our fat looks at the bottom of our air fryer:

You can also use the air fryer to season your ground beef, or even add in any extras you want to cook it with.

Air Fry Taco Meat

If taco meat is more your thing, then the air fryer can make your taco meat too. Simply make our ground beef recipe as instructed below and then add in your taco seasonings.

You then have air fryer taco meat!

Frozen Ground Beef In Air Fryer

If you only have frozen, you can cook frozen ground beef in the air fryer too. Simply load a block of frozen ground beef, cook at the lowest temperature for 10 minutes for a partial defrost and then start air frying it as usual.

Or follow our defrost mince in the microwave guide first.

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Ground Beef Air Fryer Recipe Ingredients

Mince – You will need about 500g which is just over lb of minced beef for making a good portion of ground beef in the air fryer. This quantity would then be good enough for a medium sized lasagne or a taco pie.

Garlic – I also recommend adding some frozen chopped garlic to add some flavour to your ground beef.

Seasonings – Then my favourite bit is the seasoning so that your air fried ground beef doesn’t taste bland. We just used salt, pepper, and some dried parsley.

Then for the kitchen gadgets that we have used in this recipe for air frying ground beef it has just been our Cosori air fryer. We have this one and its wonderful for many types of air fryer recipes.

Plus, we recommend you head over to our air fryer recipes category as we have more than 500 tried and tested air fryer recipes and have been air frying for 10 years.

How To Cook Ground Beef In Air Fryer?

• Prep. Load into the air fryer basket your block of ground beef (minced beef) and then season the top with your garlic, salt, pepper, and parsley.
• Cook. Air fry your ground beef for 9 minutes at 180c/360f. Open the air fryer at minute 3 and minute 6 and then use a spatula to break it up.
• Serve. After 9 minutes your ground beef in the air fryer will be cooked and ready for using in air fryer recipes.

And I am sure you can see now how easy it is to cook ground beef in air fryer and how you can be doing the same.

How Long To Cook Ground Beef In Air Fryer?

The ground beef air fryer time is JUST 9 minutes. This is for a medium sized pack of ground minced beef. If cooking more, you will have to adjust the air fryer cook time.

Note that you will also need to break up the ground beef at minute 3 and minute 6 to allow for an even cook on your ground beef.

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Cooking Ground Beef In Air Fryer

I love cooking with ground beef in the air fryer and here are a few other favourites that you can cook in the air fryer next time you have some ground beef that needs using up.

• Air Fryer Hamburgers
• Air Fryer Party Meatballs
• Air Fryer Subway Meatball Sub
• Air Fryer Meatloaf
• Air Fryer Lasagne
• Air Fryer Zucchini Boats

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