Keto Carnivore Pork Belly Bites in an Air Fryer

Making Keto Carnivore Pork Belly Bites in an air fryer creates a perfectly delicious easy keto snack. It’s also super easy, creates less mess than cooking it on the stovetop and allows you to multitask in the kitchen. If you’ve never pork belly, you need to give this carnivore recipe a try!

Air Fryer Pork Belly Recipe

Have you heard of pork belly? Recently, it seems to be all the rage on many cooking blogs.

Pork belly is the uber-fatty and rich portion of meat cut from the belly of the pig. It’s uncured, and often sold in big slabs, making its preparations much different from sliced streaky bacon.

Pork belly is popular in cuisines the world over. You’ll find it braised in Chinese cuisine, or deep-fried in Filipino cuisine. It can also be roasted and grilled.

However you prepare it, pork belly is fall-apart tender and will melt in your mouth when cooked properly. Just be careful not to overcook it and cause the muscle and fat to seize up and turn rubbery. This Air Fryer pork belly recipe creates a perfectly juicy, almost melt-in-your-mouth, deliciously easy keto snack.

And, since pork belly is uncured, you don’t have to worry about preservatives like nitrates or nitrites which makes it perfect to use in Carnivore recipes.

You can also add it like croutons on top of salads like this Keto Brussels Sprout Broccoli Salad with Cranberries or to this Keto Buffalo Shrimp Salad Recipe to make this a carnivore recipe!

What is a Carnivore diet?

The Carnivore Diet is an extreme dietary approach that involves consuming exclusively animal products, primarily meat, fish, and animal fats, while completely excluding plant-based foods. This means individuals following the Carnivore Diet eat meat, poultry, fish, eggs, and animal-derived fats like butter and lard. The diet excludes all forms of plant foods, including fruits, vegetables, grains, legumes, nuts, seeds, and plant-based oils. If you want to read more about how the Carnivore diet compares to the protein-sparing modified diet, check out this post.

In general, the carnivore diet consumes more protein than the keto diet which is higher in fat. See the FAQ section for more details.

Why you will love this Carnivore recipe

• First, this recipe is ridiculously easy! Simply cut the keto pork belly into chunks, season it with some salt, pepper, and paprika, and throw it in your air fryer.
• Second, cooking keto pork belly using this air fryer pork belly recipe is way cleaner than cooking pork belly on the stove. I’m known as "messy Marvin" in our home since splatters all over the stovetop are something that always happens to me! However, when you cook these keto carnivore pork belly bites in an air fryer, you don’t get any splatters! Plus, since the fat separates from these pork belly bites, you can easily pour the leftover fat into a jar to make some Carnivore mayo!
• Lastly, making this in the air fryer allows you to multitask in the kitchen. Once you toss the pork belly bites in the air fryer, you’re free to whip up some eggs or make a batch of carnivore waffles.

Ingredients for Keto Carnivore Pork Belly Bites

You won't need a ton of ingredients to make this carnivore recipe - Just 4 basic ones:

• Pork Belly - I can find large chunks of sliced pork belly at Costco. They also sell a slab of pork belly as well. Whichever choice of cut you choose, you will want to cut the pork belly into approximately ½-inch cubes.
• Seasoning - I like to simply add some salt, pepper and smoked paprika to my keto pork belly. The smoked paprika not only gives the pork belly bites a "smoky" flavour but also adds a nice colour to the bites.

How to Cook Keto Pork Belly in an Air Fryer

There are only a few basic steps for making this easy keto snack! All air fryers are slightly different so adapt the air frying time according to your tase (PS - I used a Ninja Foodi All-in-One for making these!)

Enjoy!

Hint: Save the leftover grease that is in the bottom of the air fryer and store it in the fridge. Use it instead of cooking oil or to make Keto Carnivore Bacon Mayo (recipe coming soon!)

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