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

1. 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.”

2. Secondly, Dean adds the de-seeded and diced pepper into the air fryer drawer. Before adding the garlic and ginger paste.

3. He then stirred the ingredients together and cooked them for 12 minutes on 200C. He says this gives the pork time to caramelise.

4. Once the pork has cooked slightly, he adds black bean paste, beef stock and honey into the air fryer drawer.

5. Finally he adds dark soy sauce into the mixture and cooks at 200C for five minutes.

6. 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.

7. 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.