Tbh this recipe would probably taste better if you deep fried it at the end instead of air frying it. But it probably tastes good enough with an air fryer and air fryers are way, way easier to deal with than any kind of deep fryer, so you may find it worth it for that reason. Air fryers are basically like table top ovens that are faster to heat up since they're smaller, so as long as you think of them that way and not as fryers, then you're good. You can probably do this recipe in a regular oven with an adjustment to the cooking time too.