EASY Air Fryer Crispy Pork Belly - 2 Hours Only!

This air fryer crispy pork belly only takes 2 hours to make from start to finish all done in the air fryer. No fridge, no extra oil, no salt crust. Just using the advantages of the air fryer to make a juicy pork belly with a light and crispy skin. Seasonings are chinese style (siu yuk 氣炸鍋脆皮燒肉).

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0:00 - Intro
0:30 - How to choose the best piece of pork belly at the store
0:44 - Making the dry seasoning rub
1:09 - Preparing cut of pork
2:10 - First low temperature, slow roast in air fryer
3:18 - Poking shallow holes into the pork skin
4:40 - Back in the air fryer 250 F for 20 minutes
5:00 - Crisp up the skin and finish cooking at high temperature
6:40 - Pork finished cooking and cutting
6:56 - Fixing the pieces where the skin didn't get crispy

INGREDIENTS:
- Skin on pork belly, flat as possible with even layers of fat and meat (about 2 lbs) Ask for a center cut piece of pork belly if you're asking a butcher.
- Fine sea salt or kosher salt

For dry rub seasoning:
- 2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon chinese five spice
- 0.5 teaspoon white pepper powder
- 0.5 teaspoon ginger powder.


INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Gather all of the dry rub seasoning ingredients and mix them together in a bowl.
2. Cut pork belly into a piece that will fit into your air fryer.
3. Cut 3 to 4 equally spaced cuts into the lean portion of the pork belly down towards the skin about ¾ of the way deep.
4. Sprinkle the dry rub seasoning all around the bottom, sides, and inside the cuts of the pork belly.
Pat down the seasoning. Don’t get any seasoning on the skin.
5. Get a piece of foil about twice as large as the piece of pork belly and lay the pork belly in the center, skin side up.
6. Fold the edges in to surround the pork belly. The foil edge height should be at or just below the pork belly skin. Pinch and fold out the foil at the corners to make it nice and snug around the pork belly.
7. Sprinkle or rub some fine salt (about ½ teaspoon) onto the surface of the pork skin.
8. Place in an air fryer at 250 degrees F or 120 degrees C for 40 minutes.
9. After 40 minutes, take the pork belly out, optionally sprinkle/rub a few pinches of baking soda on the surface of the pork skin.
10. Use a very sharp tipped instrument like a toothpick or skewer to poke about 8-10 holes / square inch into the skin. Only poke deep enough through the skin and the first layer of fat (about 3 - 4 mm deep). DO NOT poke far enough to hit the meat layer. The juices will rise up and inhibit crisping of the skin.
11. Tighten up the foil back around snug to the pork belly sides. Put back the air fryer at 250 degrees F or 120 degrees C for 20 minutes.
12. After the 20 minutes is done increase the air fryer temperature to 400 degrees F or 205 degrees C. This step will crisp up the pork belly skin. It can take anywhere from 20 - 40 minutes for this to happen. Just check on it every 10 minutes or so and check more often towards the end. The meat should be fully cooked through to at least 145 degrees F.
13. If you don’t see it crisping up evenly you may need to cut those sections off and put them back in the air fryer.

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