Air fryer sticky glazed pork
- Prepare
- less than 30 mins
- Cook
- 10 to 30 mins
- Serve
- Serves 1
- Dietary
- Dairy-freeEgg-free
Deliciously sticky soy-glazed pork makes a quick supper, if you use an air fryer. Serve with rice tossed with sliced spring onions, if you like.
This recipe is part of an air fryer meal plan for one.
Each serving (minus the optional serving suggestion) provides 411 kcal, 40.1g protein, 34.2g carbohydrate (of which 33.4g sugars), 12.6g fat (of which 3.4g saturates), 0.2g fibre and 0.95g salt.
Ingredients
- 1 thick-cut boneless pork loin steak (see tip)
- 1 tsp sesame oil
- 2 tbsp runny honey
- 1 tsp rich dark soy sauce
- 1 garlic clove, crushed
- ½ tsp ground ginger
- freshly ground black pepper
- rice and long-stemmed broccoli or stir-fried veg, to serve
Method
If necessary, preheat your air fryer at 200C for 3 minutes, or until it reaches temperature.
Rub the pork all over with the sesame oil and season with black pepper. Place on the crisper plate. Cook at 200C for 4–5 minutes or until the fat is lightly browned and the pork is just cooked through. It will be cooked for a little longer with the glaze, so it’s important not to overcook at this point.
Meanwhile, mix the honey, soy sauce, garlic and ginger together in a small bowl to make the glaze. Once the pork has cooked for its 4–5 minutes, turn it over and spoon all the glaze on top. Cook for a further 2–3 minutes or until the glaze is hot, sticky and beginning to caramelise.
Serve the steak with freshly cooked rice and broccoli or stir-fried vegetables, drizzled with any sticky juices that have collected at the bottom of the air fryer.
Recipe tips
Pork steaks cook quickly in an air fryer but can toughen if you don’t take care. Thinner steaks will take less time than a thick cut. You can tell the pork is cooked when no pinkness remains in the centre of the thickest part of the steak.
Choose a rich dark soy sauce for this dish, as it will help make the glaze extra sticky and delicious.
Ground ginger from a jar works better than fresh ginger for this recipe, but you could try using fine strips of stem ginger and 1 tablespoon of stem ginger syrup instead of 1 tbsp of the honey.
This recipe was tested using a 4–litre capacity air fryer. If yours has a much larger or smaller capacity, you will need to adjust the cooking times.
