Air Fryer Breakfast Potatoes

If you’re a fan of potatoes O’Brien or potatoes and bell peppers with your eggs and bacon, you’ll love this air fryer breakfast potatoes recipe. It yields a beaucoup of taters, making it great for feeding a crowd or breakfast meal prep.

And since they’re air fried potatoes, you’ll barely need any oil. So unlike original fried breakfast potatoes, each serving has just 2 grams of fat. That leaves you plenty of room to load up on bacon and eggs!

How to Make Breakfast Potatoes in an Air Fryer

This is a super simple recipe that takes about 10 minutes of prep. You’ll find a visual recipe tutorial below with some ingredient modification notes and tips. If you’re feeling confident and ready to get rolling, you can skip down to the full recipe card at the bottom of the post.

Quarter baby gold or Dutch yellow potatoes and largely dice a red and green bell pepper.

These are the same potatoes I used for my air fryer Greek potatoes and Mexican potatoes recipes. And like I mentioned in those, yellow fleshed potatoes will cook a bit differently than something like russet potatoes. If you wanted to use russet potatoes, you may need to slightly extend the cook time.

As for the peppers, feel free to mix up the type of peppers you used to add more spice to your breakfast potatoes. A jalapeño or serrano would be good. You could also add more veggies like the red onion in my air fryer Greek chicken and veggies or zucchini like my air fryer cajun chicken and vegetables.

Toss with olive oil, garlic powder, onion powder, black pepper, and salt.

Feel free to get creative with your breakfast potatoes seasoning. It’s hard to go wrong with little smoked paprika or dried chiles.

Though if you wanted to add lots of spices, you might save some of the seasoning for the last 10 minutes in the air fryer. Like I mentioned in my cajun Ninja Foodi sweet potato fries recipe, adding seasoning towards the end of frying can prevent the spices from burning during longer cook times and make your breakfast potatoes even crispier.

Air fry for 30-35 minutes at 400ºF, shaking a few times throughout. 

I used a 6.5-quart Ninja Foodi to make these air fryer breakfast potatoes. I always like to mention that using a different type of air fryer may require slight modifications to cook time, especially if it’s a different size. Keep in mind, more surface area equals faster air frying.

Since this is a huge batch of breakfast potatoes, shaking a few times is necessary for even cooking. To make shaking a bit easier, you can always just transfer the potatoes back to the mixing bowl, give them a toss, and go back in the air fryer basket. This will also pick up any remaining oil or seasoning left behind in the mixing bowl.

The good news is that these air fried potatoes O’Brien are basically impossible to mess up. Once the potatoes are fork tender, you’re good to go. You can air fry them a few extra minutes to get them as crisp as you’d like.

Serving Your Air Fryer Breakfast Potatoes

I’ve included notes in the recipe card for air frying eggs on top of the potatoes. You could also pan fry some eggs and bacon while they’re in the air fryer or make chipotle chicken and scrambled eggs like in my meal prep breakfast bowls.

Or if you wanted to go true country style, you could make my homemade chicken breakfast sausage patties or some of my chicken sausage gravy to serve with your taters.

And if you’re going to use this as a breakfast meal prep recipe, I’ve seen lots of readers use my homemade McGriddles and healthy homemade biscuits (pictured above) recipes for meal prep as well. Those would round out a full breakfast for you.

I’d love hear how you end up serving your breakfast potatoes and what you think about the recipe. Come back and leave a recipe review or snap a pic and tag me on Instagram. Hope to see your taters soon!