Recipe This | Air Fryer Spanish Spicy Potatoes (Patatas Bravas) (2025)

Air Fryer Patatas Bravas. Easy to prep and loaded with Spanish flavours, patatas bravas is an essential quick potato recipe for the air fryer.

Our Air Fryer Patatas Bravas recipewas originally published in the summer of 2016 and is one of those yummyMediterranean comfort sides. I decided to update it with some extra photos andmore info for you.

Air Fryer PatatasBravas

This is what I wrote about patatas bravasback in the summer of 2016:

Well I promised to recreate thelovely Spanish dishes that I tried in Spain and this is the first of them.

I don’t know about you, but I fell in love with Spanish tapas at first sight. It always feels like you are entering a sweet shop for adults when you experience tapas.

You enter the bar and get to choose whatever you want to have a small portion of from the tapas bar. You’ll see at least 6 different options and you start licking your lips in anticipation for what you’re about to eat.

Plus, you can be greedy andchoose more than one item as they are so cheap, and they are only very smalldishes.

Well when we were in Spainearlier this summer, we visited about 8 different tapas bars and I must havehad a this dish at every single one of them because I love it so much. PatatasBravas as they call it in Spain is simply potatoes in a spicy tomato sauce andit is absolutely delicious.

Plus, for recreating it at homeyou couldn’t do any better. It is frugal and it is quick oh and it is not thathigh calorie either.

We made it in well under 30minutes and this is our take on it.

This is what I have to say aboutPatatas Bravas now:

Air Fryer Patatas Bravas is an underrated dish for cooking in your air fryer. When we think air fryer potatoes, we are always thinking about air fryer fries, air fryer potato wedges or air fryer potato chips, yet patatas bravas is equally special.

It very much reminds me ofMexican food, and you could just as easily cook air fryer potato wedges serveit with a Mexican salsa and still have a delicious appetizer via the air fryer.

Back then when we first sharedour patatas bravas in the air fryer our daughter was toddling around theswimming pool, Jorge was growing in my tummy making my summer a hotter one andKyle was moaning that teenage life was even tougher when it was too hot to playfootball.

Fast forward a couple of yearsand a bit and Kyle is still as grumpy, Sofia is getting ready to start schoolfor the first time and Jorge loves nothing more than eating his mums air fryer potatoes.

Air Fryer Patatas Bravas Ingredients

I alwaysthink of patatas bravas as making potato wedges and serving it with a spicy dippingsauce. It is very similar and you’re just adding to the cooking process the extraseasoning that makes patatas bravas so well loved.

Themain ingredients for making air fryer patatas bravas is:

• Potatoes
• Spicy Sauce
• Dry Rub
• Extra Virgin Olive Oil

If you’rebased outside of Europe, you can also cheat by using Mexican salsa.

Air Fryer BravasSauce

When I make my patatas bravas sauce I will mix theingredients first in a bowl and then leave it in the fridge. Then I can load itup over the potatoes once they have been cooked.

To make your own homemade bravas it is this easy:

• 100mlHomemade Tomato Sauce
• 1Tomatothinly diced
• 1TbspRed Wine Vinegar
• 1TspPaprika
• 1TspChilli Powder
• 2TspCoriander
• 2TspThyme
• 1TspMixed Spice
• 1TspOregano
• 1TspRosemary

Or instead sub the tomato and homemade tinned tomatoes for acan of tinned tomatoes.

Or for a quicker cheat version you would use 240ml (1 cup)of salsa and then you only need to add the following to your salsa:

• Coriander (also known as cilantro)
• Thyme
• Mixed Spice
• Oregano
• Rosemary

You can of course use a jar of bravas sauce if you can gethold of it. I know I can only get it if we head across the border to Spain.

How To Air Fry PatatasBravas?

To make air fryer patatasbravas is very simple and is split into a few simple steps:

• Peel and slice the potatoes – You want to slice into shapes similar to if you were cooking our air fryer potato wedges.

• Bowl Them – Add the potatoes as well as the dry rub for the potatoes to a bowl along with the extra virgin olive oil. Mix with your hands until there is a red colouring to the potatoes from the paprika.

• Cook & Sauce – While the patatas is cooking in the air fryer, create your bravas. Then once the air fryer has beeped you can load your patatas with its bravas.

More Air FryerPotato Recipes

In the Milner house we LOVE our air fryer potatoes. Hereare a few more:

• Air Fryer Potato Wedges – Recently updated and our first ever air fryer recipe, we love to eat potato wedges in the air fryer. If you don’t want the spice of patatas bravas this is your plan B.
• Air Fryer Breakfast Potatoes – Perfect for a make ahead breakfast in the air fryer and it can be left in the fridge overnight ready for the morning.
• Air Fryer Rosemary Roast Potatoes – A favourite of mine and you can easily swap the rosemary for another preferred seasoning.

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