Let your air fryer do what it does best and create a deliciously golden, crunchy and perfectly cooked pork belly. This air fryer pork belly with a fresh Asian-inspired salad makes a stunning Christmas main, or a crowd-pleasing family dinner.
Ingredients
Method
Preheat a 5.3-litre air fryer to 180C for 3 minutes.
Pat pork dry with paper towel. Combine half the salt flakes and the five spice; rub into pork rind.
Taking care, place pork in the air fryer basket and spray with oil. Reset temperature to 200C; cook for 25 minutes until pork skin crackles.
Reset the temperature to 160C; cook for a further 30 minutes until pork is tender, or an internal temperature of 70–75C is reached on a meat thermometer. (Cover pork with foil if overbrowning.)
Meanwhile, to make ginger dressing, whisk ingredients in a small bowl.
Layer cucumber, red onion, wombok, herbs, spinach and chilli on a platter.
Thickly slice pork and place on top of salad. Scatter with green onion and sprinkle with remaining salt flakes; drizzle with the dressing. Serve with lime wedges.
How to score pork rind
A Stanley knife is the best tool for scoring the pork rind; alternatively, you can get the butcher to do it for you.
What to serve with air fryer pork belly
As it is, this air fryer pork belly and Asian-inspired salad makes a beautiful dinner that’s crunchy, zingy, spicy and fresh. Entertaining family and friends? Serve it as part of a feast alongside favourites like barbecued chilli prawns with green mango and coconut salad, barbecued haloumi and zucchini, super easy air fryer bread and a crispy potato salad.