Air Fryer Pork Roast

Ready to learn the best way to cook pork roast this week? I surely would! 😉 It cooks quickly while staying nice and juicy inside. Pair with some vegetables or rice and you’re ready for a nutritious meal. One of many easy air fryer recipes we’ve been making for weeks now.

We’ve cooked all sorts of things in our hot air machine over the years. From larger beef roasts to smaller items like pork chops in air fryer, everything just turns out so good. If you’re looking for a delicious pork roast air fryer recipe, you’ll be amazed at how tender and flavorful it can be. There are so many fantastic pork roast air fryer recipes to try that will elevate your meals!

Ninja Air Fryer Pork Roast

With the Foodi style machine you are going to want to use the lid that is attached to crisp for this recipe. With the air fryer alone machine follow directions as stated below with the same temp and timing.

You can find these with a bone in and without one, the latter would be called a pork loin roast. Sometimes there is a small piece left in and that is okay too. I don’t think the cook time varies much between the two really.

How Long to Cook Boneless Pork Roast in Air Fryer

Wondering how long to cook pork roast in air fryer? 3 pounds will take about 40 minutes for the thickest part to be cooked thru. There is no need to flip it over as the hot air will circulate around the whole piece when laid flat. To ensure it does not overcook check often with a digital thermometer and remove once it hits 140F internal meat temperature before consuming.

How Long to Cook Frozen Pork Roast in Air Fryer

If your piece is right out of the freezer you can follow the temp and timing in our Air Fryer Frozen Roast recipe. If you have a foodi you can choose to pressure cook following our Instant Pot frozen roast recipe instead. For perfectly cooked, juicy pork shoulder in air fryer, it happens to the best of us… 😉

How Long to Cook Small Pork Roast in Air Fryer

If you want to cook this for just two people or something you can adjust the timing for 1.5 pounds. For half the size I would set for half the time. Adjustments will need to be made depending on how thick the middle is of course but the variance will be very slight. When checking the temp do so with the meat still in the basket and the drawer removed from the machine.

How do you keep a pork roast from drying out?

First off you don’t want to overcook it. Like I said, about 12 minutes per pound is usually adequate to get it to a safe 145 degree F. temp in the middle. Remember that while it is resting it will continue to cook and raise about 5 degrees as it sits so keep that in mind. If you take it out at 145 it will likely become 150 F when it is time to serve it.

How to Make the Gravy

There will be some drippings in the bottom of the machine you can use to make cream of mushroom gravy on the stovetop. Just bubble and thicken with 1 tbsp of cornstarch in it. This is great to pour on top of each serving too of course too. That will add even more moisture, flavor, and texture to the meal.

Tips for Success

As far as the seasonings go it is up to you but I like to use our steak ortri tip dry rub. Yes, those are great for all sorts of things, way beyond what I named them. You could just use salt and pepper or a bottled style that is already made but ours is easy enough and you should give it a whirl. The link is in the recipe card below.

Two layers of dry rub are best. Once you have all the ingredients together you just sprinkle it all over. Rub it on and then do that again to get a nice thick coating on this baby. There is some brown sugar in it so that will cause the outside to brown quite a bit but if you follow the timing below it won’t burn.

Just ensure you have some sort of non stick spray down so it doesn’t stick and peel off once you remove the meat out of the air fryer basket. I have had some people say they have used Splenda instead too.

Another tip for this and any other large meats like this and air fryer chuck roast is that is MUST rest for a good 15 minutes. If you skip this step the juices will spill out once sliced and dry it out. You want all of those to stay inside each piece so it’s as tender as possible.

How to serve

Serve this or pork steak in air fryer over a bed of mashed potatoes and enjoy with your family this week. Let us know if you used a different rub on the outside that turned out fantastic too. Now let’s jump to recipe and give it a whirl. You can print this out too and keep it on hand too but we’d rather you just came back again so we can “see you” again. 😉

You can easily makeair fryer vegetables while your meat is resting, or even cook a loaf ofair fryer bread to serve with it. If you want to use a different pot and cook at the same time, give our ninja foodi white rice a whirl.

In the oven, it will take about 25 minutes per pound for a pork roast. When air frying, the cooking time per pound for pork roast is dramatically reduced to closer to 12 minutes per pound. This means you can enjoy a delicious meal with significantly less time per pound for pork roast!

Yes, it is one of the best ways to cook it too because the insides stay juicy and moist while getting a crispy outside. Low and slow will give you the best outcome.