Hopefully I'll use my slow cooker for more then just chili.....
Serves two
What you need!
1 full rack pork spare ribs, trimmed and cut in half
1 teaspoon paprika
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon chili powder
2 oranges
1 lemon
2 bottles of beer
1 dried chipotle pepper
1 18-oz (or so) bottle barbecue sauce (I recommend Stubb's)
hot sauce for serving
Make it!
Rub ribs with paprika, garlic powder, and chili powder. If you have time, refrigerate after rubbing for 1-3 hours. Zest oranges and lemon. Juice oranges and lemon, adding juice to the slow cooker. Crumble chipotle and add to slow cooker. Bring ribs to room temperature if you refrigerated them. Brown each half of the rack of ribs on both sides in a heavy skillet. Add first half to slow cooker, pour a little barbecue sauce on top, then add second half. Add beers, then top off with more barbecue sauce. Add about 3/4 of the bottle of barbecue sauce total. Ideally ribs will be just submerged in liquid. If you have time, cook ribs for 10-12 hours on low. This way they will be most tender. If not, cook for five hours on high. Remove ribs from liquid (discard liquid), serve with the rest of the barbecue sauce and hot sauce.
If you're preparing these overnight, refrigerate ribs submerged in the cooking liquid (in a casserole, not your slow cooker insert) during the day. Before heating, remove fat from surface. Reheat in the oven, finishing with a quick broil to crisp them up if you want.
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Definitely my favourite slow cooker recipe so far! The ribs were delicious and I only used 1 bottle of beer and used chicken broth to make up the rest of the liquid to cover the ribs. One rack of ribs fit easily in my slow cooker and was the perfect amount for two people to eat with one side. After letting the ribs in the slow cooker, I finished them off by putting more BBQ sauce on top and crisping them up in the broiler for 10 minutes or so. They were delicious and the meat was coming right off the bones! The BBQ sauce I used was "Diana Sauce - Gourmet Original BBQ Sauce" and it was perfect!
ReplyDeleteAnother Slow Cooker Barbeque Ribs Recipe
ReplyDeletePrep time: 35 mins
Cook time: 7 hours
Total time: 7 hours 35 mins
Serves: 4
Ingredients
4 pounds pork baby back ribs
salt and pepper to taste
2 Barbeque Sauce
1 cup chili sauce
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
4 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
2 teaspoons dried oregano
2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
Instructions
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
Season ribs with salt and pepper. Place in a shallow baking pan.
Brown in oven 15 minutes. Turn over, and brown another 15 minutes; drain fat.
In a medium bowl, mix together the barbeque sauce, chili sauce, brown sugar, vinegar, oregano, Worcestershire sauce, and salt and pepper.
Place ribs in slow cooker. Pour sauce over ribs, and turn to coat.
Cover and cook on Low 6 to 8 hours, or until ribs are tender.