Welcome to my Airfryer Scampi & Chips recipe. Delicious king prawns breaded and then crisped up in the Airfryer. Served with chunky chips and drizzled with lemon. It’s the perfect family mid week meal.
OMG scampi and chips you say?
Talk about taking me back to my old British pub meals. The meals were never that great and it was more about being cheap and cheerful. But I still loved it and it was always about the amazing atmosphere that you got with being down the pub.
I can also credit the fact that I met my husband down the pub, my mum and dad met down the pub and so did my grandparents. So its certainly a place to go for true love!
I always remember though that there was a huge amount of traditional meals. There would always be scampi and chips, fish and chips, steak and ale pie, lasagne or even liver and onions on the menu. There would also be a large pudding menu too with everything coming with warm custard. You would then get a meal for a fiver and be proud of what you got for your money.
Quite often one of us would be having scampi and chips. Those little prawns deep fried and served with fresh lemon and chips was always a favourite for many people.
But in reality I have not been in a British pub for more than a decade. The last time I was in a pub was back when we lived in England.
It had the pub on one side and then a massive kids soft play centre on the other. Dominic would be watching the football while I was next door with Kyle having fun kids time. He was about 5 or 6 at the time when we last went there. Then we would meet up together and have a delicious pub meal afterwards.
It was bliss.
And I wish they had more like that in Portugal. We only have a couple of soft play centres. One has poor hygiene and the other is way too far away. But of course I can dream.
But even though I don’t have the soft play centres I can make the best ever Scampi & Chips at home in the Airfryer.
It of course has to be with real prawns and not that rubbish you buy from the freezers in the local supermarket. You have to know what you’re eating and this version is much healthier. And it tastes so crispy being cooked in the Airfryer.
And the chunky chips of course finish off the meal don’t they?
Though in the British pubs they would always be served with garden peas. Well I am not much of a fan so that side of things is going to be left out. But the delicious pieces of scampi will be there would all their glory.
What Is In Scampi?

With £50 million worth of scampi being sold every year in Britain its no surprise that so many people search every day on the internet to find out what is in it.
It should be either langoustine, langoustine tails or Irish king prawns which are all the smaller cousin of the lobster.
But in reality you’re more likely to find pangasius catfish which is mass produced in Vietnam and in Thailand. There is often as little as 7% of actual langoustines in scampi that is served in British pubs. The rest if made up of this Asian catfish and mass amounts of water. It is then breaded so that you don’t know any different.
Many scampi products served in pubs or purchased from supermarkets have more water than actual fish.
Many food experts name it as the worst type of processed foods you could ever eat. Especially because of all the additives included in it. The best thing to do (like us) is to make your own!
Airfryer Scampi & Chips Recipe
Airfryer Scampi & Chips   Author: Recipe This Serves: 4 Prep time: 8 mins Cook time: 15 mins Total time: 23 mins Save Print   Delicious healthy scampi and chips. Quickly prepared and then cooked in the Airfryer.