Many people often find themselves reaching for the phone and ordering a takeaway when they don’t fancy cooking or want a treat.
But television chef Dean Edwards has a low-calorie air fryer recipe he swears by that can replace a popular Chinese takeaway dish. Dean, who regularly appears on ITV’s Lorraine, says pork and black bean noodles don’t even need to be cooked in a pan.
On Channel 5’s The Air Fryer Diet: Lose Weight, Cook Fast, he explained: “Forget the wok, this is just as quick and even tastier.”
He added: “It costs a fraction of getting a takeaway and, as a bonus, it’s healthier too.”
Here’s how Dean makes his air fryer fakeaway treat:
Method
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Dean says the first step is to put the pork mince in the air fryer drawer with diced onion. He explains: “This is absolutely jam-packed full of flavour and because it has a little bit of fat in it already, we don’t need to add any additional oils.”
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Secondly, Dean adds the de-seeded and diced pepper into the air fryer drawer. Before adding the garlic and ginger paste.
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He then stirred the ingredients together and cooked them for 12 minutes on 200C. He says this gives the pork time to caramelise.
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Once the pork has cooked slightly, he adds black bean paste, beef stock and honey into the air fryer drawer.
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Finally he adds dark soy sauce into the mixture and cooks at 200C for five minutes.
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Once the mixture is cooked, Dean adds a nest of cooked egg noodles, which is good for portion control. They are then mixed into the pork air fryer drawer with a pair of tongues until coated in the sauce.
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Once plated Dean tops the dish with spring onions.
More of Dean’s low-calorie recipes can be found on The Air Fryer Diet: Lose Weight, Cook Fast, which airs on Channel 5 tonight at 8pm.
