This book has some really good tips for the keto diet and air fryers. I have been thinking about getting an air fryer and this book has definitely swayed me a bit more. It has a bunch of new recipes I want to try.

This is a great air fryer cookbook. I love that there are pictures included not for every meal but there are some. The recipes look easy you don’t need any crazy ingredients. And I can’t wait to make many of the recipes.

I am always looking for healthy low car recipes to try out. I have an air fryer that I can't get motivated to use so I keep searching for recipes I might like. I do think the Healthy Keto Air Fryer cookbook has many recipes I would enjoy and that would tempt me to get my air fryer off the shelf and on to the counter. It isn't easy to find cookbooks that are both for a low carb lifestyle and for the air fryer so this book is a big win. My only complaint is I wish there were more recipes included.

I was kind of disappointed in this book. I was really excited to get an ARC of it since my husband and I have been eating keto for a couple of months and I also have a fairly new air fryer that mostly sits unused. I have a lot of keto books that I've received for review purposes from another publisher, but many of them are of the "100 ways to eat bacon, cheese and butter" variety and I really try to focus on healthy fats and proteins, low carb veggies, more fiber, and foods that deliver a lot of nutrients. I have a subscription to Misfits Market for weekly organic veggie deliveries and I've been ordering lots of keto veggies like daikon radishes, jicama, celery root, collard greens and so on, and I was really hoping for some great recipes to use a bigger variety of keto veggies. Unfortunately, this is more for stuff like scotch eggs (hard boiled eggs wrapped in sausage), which are keto but I wouldn't really call particularly healthy. Shrug. "Healthy" is a very subjective term. I was surprised to see there was a recipe for tofu and he actually knew to press it first to remove excess liquid so it gets a nice texture but he doesn't call for marinading which I would always recommend, as tofu is sort of a blank slate sponge and it soaks up whatever flavors you marinade it in.

The book sometimes calls for ingredients that are very processed that I would prefer not to cook with, like using whey protein powder for breading things like onion rings. I really don't want lab-produced "food" in my cupboard, but I tend towards minimally processed, whole foods and things I can grow, forage or make myself. It probably makes a great breading for folks who just want tasty food, though.

There are not a ton of pictures and the ones there are sometimes seem to be styled for the photos with different ingredients. The cover recipe, for instance, is for steak. It calls for steak, oil, butter, parsley, garlic, and salt and pepper. In the photo, there are yellowish cubes in addition to the garlic. I have no idea what those are and I searched the recipe twice trying to find that ingredient. There also is no parsley shown in the picture, but there appears to be rosemary. Other recipes are shown covered in cilantro leaves when it doesn't call for cilantro and things like that. The sesame seed bread is shown as a lovely round loaf, but it calls for being baked in a low, square pan and then sliced into 12 slices, which would seem to give you really narrow, long slices of bread nothing like the bread pictured. It's a minor thing, but I really like seeing what a recipe will look like when made according to the directions.

There are also quite a few recipes where it really seems like more work to make it in an air fryer, like omelets and pancakes. If you live in a dorm and have no stove top burner, then maybe you'd need to make a pancake in an air fryer and take it out to flip it and such, but I really don't see a need to make a lot of these things in an air fryer. Also, some of the photos did not look appetizing. The New York style cheesecake looked dry and burnt, and the blueberry muffins looked kind of wrinkled and sad, with brown tops. None of the pictures really made me want to try the recipes. Lastly, some of the portion sizes seemed unrealistic, like a cauliflower bake for breakfast where a serving size was a half a cup. Who eats a half a cup of something for breakfast?

It'll still work well for keto people looking for more air fryer recipes and there are some recipes that really seemed like they'd be really tasty and easy. I didn't find a whole lot for my needs, but it's still a nice cookbook with a good variety of recipes.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.

Healthy Keto Air Fryer Cookbook: 100 Delicious Low-Carb and Fat-Burning Recipes by Aaron Day
Publisher: DK
Genre: Cooking, Food & Wine | Health, Mind & Body
Release Date: January 5, 2021

Healthy Keto Air Fryer Cookbook by Aaron Day contains 100 low-carb recipes.

The books is broken down into The Basics, Breakfasts, Mains, Sides, Snacks, & Desserts.

The Basics explains what is the keto diet and important things to know about it, as well as how to use an air fryer.

Each of the recipes includes nutrition information, but I wish there were more pictures.

Some of the breakfast recipes include Avocado & Cheese Omelet, Lemon & Blueberry Muffins, Cinnamon & Egg Loaf, and Raspberry & Vanilla Pancakes.

For mains, there are recipes for Shrimp & Chorizo Skewers, Chicken Fillet Pizzas, Garlic Parmesan Wings, and Smoky Chicken Pizza.

Some of the sides recipes are Breaded Onion Rings, Cauliflower Mac & Cheese, Roasted Balsamic Mixed Vegetables, Nut-Free Sesame Seed Bread, and Ratatouille.

For snacks, there are recipes for Roasted Nut Butter, Bread Calamari with Tangy Aioli, Buffalo Cauliflower Bites, and Pizza Bites.

Some of the dessert recipes include Brownies, Vanilla & Berries Birthday Cake, Chocolate Lava Cake, Pumpkin Pie, and New York-Style Baked Cheesecake.

I'm definitely excited to try out some of these recipes!

I'm so grateful to Aaron Day, DK, and NetGalley for providing me with a free copy of this ARC ebook in exchange for my honest review.