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Get the perfect crackling on your roast pork when you cook it in the air fryer with our easy recipe! With a tasty fennel and chilli salt rub, you’ll love this simple pork roast.
Looking for more air fryer recipes or more pork dinner recipes?
Ingredients
Method
Preheat a 7-litre air fryer to 180°C/350°F for 3 minutes.
Place fennel seeds, salt and chilli flakes in a mortar and pestle; crush lightly. Add lemon rind, garlic and oil; pound to combine. Pat pork belly rind dry with paper towel. Rub fennel mixture all over pork.
Taking care, place pork, skin-side up, in the air fryer basket. Reset the temperature to 200°C/400°F; cook for 25 minutes until skin crackles.
Reset the temperature to 160°C/325°F; cook pork for a further 25 minutes until tender or an internal temperature of 70°C–75°C/158°F–167°F is reached on a meat thermometer. (If pork is overbrowning, cover with foil.)
Thickly slice pork and sprinkle with extra salt flakes; serve with any cooking juices from the bottom of the air fryer pan, roast potatoes and roast shallots.
What to serve with pork roast
We’ve served the air fry pork with extra sea salt flakes, crispy roast potatoes and roasted shallots, as well as a gravy. See this recipe for four ways with air fryer potatoes.
For something more relaxed, try this Asian-inspired serving suggestion: Slice the pork and crackling and serve in warm bao buns with cucumber and green onions and drizzle with hoisin or sweet chilli sauce. Bao buns are available from the freezer section of supermarkets.
Air fryer pork belly variation
For a flavour variation, try Steph de Sousa’s crackling good air fryer pork belly with Chinese five spice. You might also like Steph’s pork belly bites.
Slow cooker variation
Try this slow cooked pork belly recipe – it achieves crispy crackling in the oven right at the end of cooking.
