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Air Fryer Fried Vegan “Calamari” with Oyster Mushrooms

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Prep Time 15 mins
Cook Time 15 mins
Total Time 30 mins
Course Side Dish
Cuisine Seafood
Servings 4 Servings

Equipment

  • Air Fryer

Ingredients
  

  • 2 Cups Oyster Mushrooms 1 Pack of Oyster mushrooms should yield 2 cups
  • 1 tbsp oil I used a few spritz's of spray olive oil to coat
  • 1 Cup Tempura Flour Coating or 1 cup all purpose flour
  • 1/2 tsp garlic powder
  • 1 tsp smoked paprika
  • 1 pinch Salt and Pepper, to taste

Instructions
 

  • Preheat air fryer to 400F
  • In a mixing bowl, combine tempura coating and spices
  • Coat mushrooms with oil (NOTE: If you want to be completely oil free you can just wet the mushrooms with water but the mushrooms may not come out as crispy as they would with oil)
  • one by one, cover the oiled mushrooms with tempura flour coating until completely coated with flour. Set aside and repeat process with the rest of the mushrooms
  • Once air fryer is done preheating, spray some oil into the air fryer pan (if you don’t have oil spray or don’t want to add oil, skip this step). Add the coated mushrooms to your air fryer basket in one layer. NOTE: depending on the size of your air fryer, you may need to do air fry in batches
  • Set air fryer to 14 minutes at 400 F. Shake halfway through to make sure it is cooking evenly. At halfway mark if you see any flour-y pieces, I spritz them with alittle more oil. Check on these every few minutes for the remaining time until they reach desired crispiness. For me, that was at 14 minutes total air fry time
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