BBQ Pork Ribs
American barbecue ribs made in a home oven — racks under a sweet, smoky rub, baked low and then wrapped until the meat gives at a gentle tug, and finally lacquered with barbecue sauce under a hot grill.
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 2 kg pork back ribs (2 racks)
- 3 tbsp light brown sugar
- 2 tbsp smoked paprika
- 1 tbsp salt
- 1 tsp black pepper, ground
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 0.5 tsp cayenne pepper
- 100 ml apple juice
- 250 ml barbecue sauce
Nutrition (estimated)
high confidenceRecipe total: 5258 kcal · P 549.4g · C 97.3g · F 285.1g
Estimated from 10 of 10 ingredients
Approximate estimate, calculated from the ingredients.
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Steps
Steps
- 1Turn the racks bone side up, slide a knife under the thin membrane at one end, grip it with kitchen paper and pull it off in one sheet. Left on, it turns leathery and keeps the rub out.
- 2Mix the sugar, paprika, salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder and cayenne and rub it over both sides of the ribs. Leave for 1 hour at room temperature, or overnight in the fridge.
- 3Heat the oven to 150°C. Lay each rack meat side up on a large sheet of foil set in a baking tray and bake uncovered for 2 hours, until the rub has set and darkened.
- 4Fold up the edges of the foil, pour half the apple juice over each rack and seal tightly. Bake for 1 hour more: the steam inside the parcel softens the connective tissue.
- 5Test a rack by lifting it from the middle with tongs. It should bend until the surface cracks, and the meat should have shrunk back about 1 cm from the bone ends.
- 6Open the foil, pour off the juices and brush the ribs thickly with barbecue sauce.
- 7Heat the oven grill to high and grill the ribs for 5–8 minutes, until the sauce bubbles and catches at the edges; brush on a second coat and grill for 3 minutes more.
- 8Rest for 5 minutes, cut between the bones and serve with the remaining sauce.
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Questions and answers
How long does BBQ Pork Ribs take to make?
About 220 minutes: 20 min prep and 200 min cooking.
What ingredients do you need for BBQ Pork Ribs?
10 ingredients: pork back ribs, light brown sugar, smoked paprika, salt, black pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, cayenne pepper, apple juice, barbecue sauce.
How many servings does this BBQ Pork Ribs recipe make?
4 servings. The servings buttons above the ingredients rescale every amount.
How many calories are in a serving of BBQ Pork Ribs?
About 1314 kcal, with 137.4 g protein, 24.3 g carbohydrate and 71.3 g fat. This is an estimate from the ingredients, not a lab analysis.
What cuisine is BBQ Pork Ribs?
BBQ Pork Ribs comes from American cuisine.
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