Recipe This | Air Fryer Greek Chicken Traybake (2024)

Air Fryer Greek Chicken Traybake. How to cook a delicious Greek style chicken traybake in the air fryer oven.

Loaded with chicken thighs, chicken drumsticks, mixed peppers, red onion, lemon wedges, fresh garlic, courgette and flavoured green olives.

Greek ChickenTraybake

Greek Chicken Traybakeis theSunday dinner of my dreams. I love a traybake because when I am tired, and Idon’t want to spend all of Sunday in the kitchen I can just produce a quick Greekchicken traybake and that is Sunday dinner done!

A traybake (or a sheet pan if you’re in the US) was one of the first meals that I ever cooked Dominic.

Back when I was 18 and could hardly cook it seemed like the best idea, to blag my way through mealtimes, without the food seeming too bad.

The first time I ever attempted a traybake I think I added some chicken drumsticks with some Chinese sauce out of a jar.

It was okay. Nothing to write home about and as an 18-year-old, I don’t think it was that bad!

I have mixed my chicken traybakes up a lot over the years, but the easy hands free traybake cooking has remained.

The idea that you mix your traybake ingredients in the tray and have very little washing up.

It doesn’t have to be reservedfor Sundays either. It makes a fantastic midweek dinner too.

Air FryerGreek Chicken Traybake

But today we are modernising our Greek chicken traybake by cooking it in the air fryer oven.

You can of course still cook it in the oven if you wish, but as big air fryer fans we love to cook our traybake in the air fryer.

You can cook a traybake in the air fryer of a similar size to the oven, just in two smaller dishes rather than one big one.

It still brings the same result and reminds me how much I love traybakes.

Greek ChickenTraybake Types

There are a few differentGreek style chicken traybakes that you could make and here are some of my favouritesbelow:

Greek Chicken Breast Traybake – Use large chicken breasts and chop them in half. Loadthem on top of your favourite Greek vegetables and bake. Perfect for those thathate bone in chicken.

Greek Chicken And PotatoTraybake – The most common type of Greekchicken traybake. When I make a chicken traybake I will often load it up withquartered potatoes, carrots, lemon and chicken thighs and chicken drumsticks. Likeyou see below:

Greek Chicken & Feta Traybake – If you love a Greek salad then use the Greek salad asyour inspiration and make a Greek chicken and feta traybake. Load your traybakewith chicken, olives, summer vegetables, lemon and a sprinkling of feta cheese.

Greek Chicken Thigh Traybake – Its rare not to include chicken thighs in my traybakes. I either use a mixture of chicken thighs and chicken drumsticks or just chicken thighs.

I recommend buying chicken legs when on clearance deals and then slicing them into thighs and drumsticks. Then store in the freezer to save for your yummy traybakes!

Greek Lemon Chicken Traybake – Here at the Milners house we have a lemon tree in the garden. We don’t eat lemons a lot so the perfect use for them is in a Greek lemon chicken traybake.

You can use either lemon wedges or lemon slices to make a delicious traybake with. The choice is yours!

What Ingredients& Gadgets Go Into Greek Chicken Traybake?

The ingredients that go into Greek chicken traybake depend on the air fryer size you are using. We used our air fryer oven and used two 8 inch square trays.

Here is an example of how they looked:

We loaded our air fryer traybake with:

• Chicken Legs
• Lemon Wedges
• Mixed Peppers
• Garlic Cloves
• Courgettes (zucchini in the US)
• Green Olives

A special shout out to the brand of green olives we used. They are available on Amazon through this link and sell flavoured green olives.

It makes a Greek chicken traybake even more special as it adds so much depth of flavour to the traybake and gives it the wow factor!

The Flavour Of Ollies Olives that we used was their lemon and thyme.

You can also use the Philips Air Fryer XL and load the food directly into the air fryer basket and cook it like you would with a traybake.

Though, the traybake works well in the tray if you have awet or sticky marinade as it stops your air fryer from getting dirty.

You can also use our air fryer Greek style chicken traybakeas your quick reference cheat sheet for your favourite traybakes and sheet pandinners.

Easy GreekChicken Traybake Taste

This easy Greek chicken traybake taste is similar to a roast chicken dinner, just with a lot LESS EFFORT.

You get to taste the lovely flavours of Greece and the Greek Islands on your dinner plate and I close my eyes and I am back in the Greek Isles enjoying the best of the Mediterranean vegetables.

Easy GreekChicken Traybake Recipe

Cooking a chicken traybake in the air fryer is sosimple:

1. Peel and dice your Greek traybake ingredients.
2. Add the vegetables to the tray.
3. Add in your seasonings and extra virgin olive oil to the tray and mix with your hands.
4. Load the chicken on top and season the chicken.
5. Place your chicken traybakes in the air fryer oven and cook on a medium heat.
6. Halfway through cooking swap around the shelves.
7. Serve with your favourite sides.

More Air FryerDinners

Here at Recipe This we love an easy air fryer dinner. An air fryerdinner where everything cooks in the air fryer at the same time. Making it easyfor busy people that don’t want to spend all night in the kitchen.

Here are a few of our all time favourite air fryerdinners to try next:

• Air Fryer Roast Chicken Dinner – Featuring air fryer roast chicken, roast potatoes and vegetables all cooked together.
• – The lamb chops are amazing and the roast potatoes pair with the lamb perfectly. Its just a case of deciding who gets the last roast potato!
• Air Fryer Taco Pie – All cooked together in one of those air fryer baking pans this is a fantastic way to have dinner in the air fryer. You can also serve it for a movie night in too.
• Air Fryer Lasagna – Yes you can make a lasagna in your air fryer! Plus, it is delicious and easy. Perfect for a midweek dinner and ideal with your favourite side salad.

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