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    Home » Air Fryer

    Air Fryer Sausage, Bacon and Egg McMuffins (choose your own combination and add a hash brown!)

    Published: Mar 2, 2024 by Maria Bravo · This post may contain affiliate links · Leave a Comment

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    Learn to make your own Air Fryer McMuffins super easily and quickly. You'll have them ready in no time!

    My biggest tip: use whatever ingredient combination you want, I give you instructions to do them all but that doesn't mean you have to do them all at the same time! Pick and choose, lots of tips and photos below but first the recipe itself.

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    • Choose your favourite McMuffin ingredients
    • How to cook the eggs
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    • Step-by-Step photos
    • Other Breakfast recipe ideas

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    Photo of McMuffins and hash browns seen in the air fryer basket (this is the Instant Vortex basket)

    Air Fryer Sausage, Bacon and Egg McMuffins (make it a meal with hash browns)

    Maria Bravo
    Love to stop at McDonald's for McMuffins? Make them yourself at home with this copycat air fryer recipe. Super easy and quick. Make your own McMuffin with the ingredients you want
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    Prep Time 5 minutes mins
    Cook Time 10 minutes mins
    Course Breakfast, Brunch
    Cuisine American, British

    Equipment

    • 1 Air fryer

    Ingredients
      

    • 1 bacon slice per person
    • 1 sausage per person skinned, rolled into a ball then flattened into a patty. Aldi sells ready-made patties too, frozen, I haven't tried them with these timings but worth a try for you?
    • 1 hash brown per person these are from Aldi, they come in packs of 10, find them in the freezer section
    • 1 egg per person
    • 1 cheese slice per person I use a mature cheddar block and just slice off as necessary
    • 1 English muffin per person some places call them breakfast muffins or toasting muffins. Here in the UK even Aldi tends to have them
    • ketchup or brown sauce or no sauce, you choose

    Instructions
     

    • No need to preheat your air fryer. Place the bacon slices, sausage patties and hash browns in the air fryer basket. Spaced out (see photos) or, even better, with the bacon slices over each sausage patty for extra flavour.
      1 bacon slice per person, 1 sausage per person, 1 hash brown per person
    • Tried-and-tested timings for my different air fryers, air fryers are like ovens and can vary
      - Instant Vortex and air fryers that have built-in preheating time before countdown: 8 minutes at 180°C / 355 F. Flip all ingredients with 5 minutes to go.
      - Cosori, Ninja and air fryers that don’t have a built-in preheating time: 10 minutes at 180°C / 355 F. Flip all ingredients with 5 minutes to go.
      - Ninja 9 in 1, 14 in 1, 15 in 1 etc + Instant Pot Duo Crisp and Pro Crisp (ie multicookers with air fryer lid): straight in inner pot, no need to oil or grease, 200ºC / 395F for 10 minutes, flip half way through. Worked really well
    • Eggs: The eggs can be fried on the hob of course OR you could use my Air Fryer Egg Pots recipe. Basically this means, placing each egg in a ramekin or mini pudding basin alongside the other ingredients in step 1 and air fry them at the same time then remove them 2 minutes early if using a metal basin (unless you want a hard yolk). Or use thick ceramic ramekins so that the heat takes longer to get through. No need to flip or shake the eggs half way.
      1 egg per person
    • Half way through: Flip the ingredients half way through. No need to shake. The bacon slices will have shrunk and now you probably have space to move them away from the sausage patties so that they can both brown
    • How to assemble
      I like the breakfast muffin slices to be warm / toasted. For this you have a few options: assemble and then add back to air fryer for 1 minute at around 140°C / 285 F; toast the slices in a toaster or add them to the air fryer in the last minute of cooking the ingredients if you remember. Go with what suits you.
      1 English muffin per person
    • To put it all together, I start with the sauce on the bun then, in this order: cheese, sausage patty, bacon, egg.
      ketchup or brown sauce, 1 cheese slice per person
    • There’s something special about pressing down on the top slice of bread to see the yolk break…

    Notes

    Use any ingredient combination you want. Prefer to buy the frozen ready-made patties from Aldi? Do it! I haven't tried them but I'm guessing same timings will work.
    Don't want to add hash browns? Don't.
    You'll see in the photos below that you don't have to follow the instructions to the letter, make it yours and enjoy! 
    Keyword air fryer, air fryer breakfast, air fryer mcmuffins, airfryer recipe
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    A photo of Maria (on the right) in a navy blue jumper with white polka dots, next to three black air fryers (Instant Cosori, Vortex and Philips). The words say: Air Fryer Magic with Feisty Tapas (the name of Maria's air fryer group), as well as Recipes, tips and tricks (UK ingredients and measurements)
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    Choose your favourite McMuffin ingredients

    I give you ALL ingredients so that you can pick and choose your favourite combinations.

    You can make a:

    • Sausage and Egg McMuffin
    • Sausage and Bacon McMuffin
    • Bacon and Egg McMuffin
    • Sausage, Egg and Bacon McMuffin
    • And add a hash brown to make it a McMuffin meal to boot

    Now, the question is will you have the hash brown on the side or inside the McMuffin?

    How to cook the eggs

    I often cook them on the hob still because I like crispy frilly eggs. I use my Tefal Ingenio pans or my Mini Always Pan.

    That said, my Air Fryer Baked Eggs recipe is perfect to go in with this.

    Eat it straight away or take it with you

    The Maria technique: Wrap it up tight while hot, cover it in a scarf or something warm. Take it with you to eat on a walk, hike, picnic.

    Weather-proof fakeaway! Perfect for a hike or a day out.

    Step-by-Step photos

    I make these Air Fryer McMuffins a lot, so I have a ton of photos of different variations. Let me show you a few:

    Air Fryer McMuffins for two - with Hash Browns

    Sausage, Bacon and Egg McMuffins. Eggs fried on the hob this time

    photo of Step 1 of air fryer McMuffins - ingredients seen in air fryer basket of Instant Vortex - hash browns, bacon rashers, sausage patties

    AReady to air fry. Eggs being fried on the hob. Bacon away from sausage patties in this case (although I tend to prefer them on top for the extra flavour)

    photo of Step air fried ingredients for McMuffins - seen in air fryer basket of Instant Vortex - hash browns, bacon rashers, sausage patties

    Ready to assemble

    Photo showing the egg sausage and bacon muffins being assembled with ketchup

    Assemble

    Photo of the air fryer McMuffins after a 1 minute blast to get them ready after assembling

    Final 1 minute blast. Done!

    The final result below! So good

    Photo of a delicious air fryer mcmuffin with a lovely golden hash brown at the front

    Sausage, Bacon and Egg -with the egg in a ramekin

    I've made this a lot so I have a ton of photos. Just the one egg this time but you can do one per person.

    Photo of bacon rashers laid on top of the sausage patties for air fryer McMuffins with a ramekin with an egg and a couple of cheese slices

    The sausage patties go in first, the bacon is layered on top

    Photo of the bacon on top of the sausage patties half way through cooking and just before flipping over with an egg in a ceramic ramekin with added cheese slices - half way through - Air fryer used is the Instant Vortex

    Half way through, time to flip the bacon and the patties

    Photo taken right after flipping the bacon and the patties, the bacon is no longer on the patties as there's space and this way they can brown. No need to flip the egg

    All flipped. No need to do anything to the egg

    Ready to assemble

    Other Breakfast recipe ideas

    • Air Fryer Baked Egg Pots
    • Instant Pot Chorizo Frittata
    • Instant Pot Chard and Sweet Potato Frittata
    • Cheesy Chorizo Crustless Quiche (Thermomix and conventional instructions)
    • Thermomix Bica (traditional cake from Galicia, Spain)
    • Bollos Suizos and Medias Noches - Spanish Sweet Bread in the Thermomix (aka Maria's Thingies)
    A photo of Maria (on the right) in a navy blue jumper with white polka dots, next to three black air fryers (Instant Cosori, Vortex and Philips). The words say: Air Fryer Magic with Feisty Tapas (the name of Maria's air fryer group), as well as Recipes, tips and tricks (UK ingredients and measurements)
    Join my Air Fryer Facebook group
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    About Maria Bravo

    Kitchen Gadget Geek extraordinaire. Tester of all things kitchen appliance. Clumsy cook, if I can't break it and get the most of it, you know that's a good kitchen gadget! Architect of online communities for kitchen gadget lovers

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