Air Fryer Bacon & Potato Patties with Poached Eggs

A full breakfast made in your air fryer. These yummy potato patties are devine. Did you know you can cook the poached eggs in the air fryer??

Serves: 2

Ingredients

For the Potato Patties
250g Farmland streaky bacon
1 size 7 Better Eggs egg
2 cups cold mashed potato
⅓ cup plain flour
1 cup grated cheese
⅓ cup shallots, finely chopped
1 pack Diamond Coat ‘n Cook Original

For cooking
Dot’s Cooking Oil Spray

For the poached eggs
4 medium Better Eggs

Equipment
Midea 8.5L Air Fryer with Cycloneair Technology
4 250ml heatproof ramekins
Handee paper towels
 

Method

  1. Preheat the air fryer to 200 degrees.
  2. Place the bacon in the air fryer in a single layer and cook for about 10 minutes, until crispy. Repeat with the remaining bacon if you can’t fit it all in at once. Place on a paper towel to cool, then chop into small pieces.
  3. Beat the egg slightly in a large bowl and add all the potato patty ingredients, including the chopped bacon, and mix to combine.
  4. Take a large spoonfuls of the potato mixture and use your hands to mould into thick patties.
  5. Spray the coated potato patties lightly with cooking oil. Place the patties in the tray.
  6. Cook for 5 minutes, then turn and cook for another 5 minutes.
  7. Set the cooked patties aside while you prepare the poached eggs.

Cook the poached eggs in the air fryer

  1. Heat the air fryer to 200 degrees.
  2. Boil 1 cup of water and pour some into each ramekin to reach halfway up the sides.
  3. Break an egg into each ramekin. Place the ramekins in the air fryer and cook for 6 minutes. Once the 6 minutes are up, open the air fryer and stand for another minute.
  4. Working carefully, remove the poached eggs from the ramekins and drain on a paper towel before serving with the Bacon & Potato Patties.

Tips
Spray your hands with a little cooking oil before moulding the potato patties - it helps prevent the mixture from sticking to your hands.

Put the Diamond Coat ‘n Cook into a flat dish or tray and press each potato patty into it, turning to coat both sides.