Ingredients (for 6 people)
- 4 lbs pork ribs
- 3/4 cup light brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon hickory smoke salt (if you don't have this make your own by mixing Liquid Hickory Smoke and Rock Salt!)
- 1 tablespoon paprika
- 1 tablespoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon of powder mustard
- 1 teaspoon of powder black pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon ground red pepper (optional)
- 2 cups of your favorite barbecue sauce ( mine is Sweet Baby Ray)
- (a good barbecue seasoning mix can do the job too, I tried adding McCormick Grill Mates Barbecue seasoning with good results)
Directions
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees f. (150C)
- Peel off tough membrane that covers the bony side of the ribs.
- Mix together the sugar and spices to make the rub.
- Apply rub to ribs on all sides.
- Lay ribs on 3-4 layers of foil, shiny side out and meaty side down. (In fact I do the opposite here, I keep the meaty side up and bush a little bit of Barbecue sauce on top)
- Lay two layers of foil on top of ribs and roll and crimp edges tightly, edges facing up to seal.
- Place on baking sheet and bake for 2-2 1/2 hours or until meat is starting to shrink away from the ends of the bone.
- Remove from oven.
- Heat broiler.
- Cut ribs into serving sized portions of 2 or 3 ribs.
- Arrange on broiler pan, bony side up.
- Brush on sauce.
- Broil for 1 or 2 minutes until sauce is cooked on and bubbly.
- Turn ribs over.
- Repeat on other side.
- Alternately, you can grill the ribs on your grill to cook on the sauce.
Comments:
With the Internet providing access to hundreds of recipes it is easy to find one, the problem is to find one that you like! Last time I made ribs I was very happy with the results but I forgot to save my preferred recipe, worst than that, I kind of adapted 2 or 3 recipes into my own and forgot to take notes. So, today, when I decided to make Barbecue Ribs in the oven again, I started my day searching for the lost source of inspiration without luck. Fortunately, I am glad that I had my browsing history still available on my main desktop compute and managed to find those again. Here are the source of inspiration:
Got the basic recipe from here:
- Beth's Melt in Your Mouth Barbecue Ribs (Oven) Read more at: http://www.food.com/recipe/beths-melt-in-your-mouth-barbecue-ribs-oven-107786
- Got the idea on how to make my own Hickory Salt Hickory Salt by mixing Liquid Smoke and Rock Salt from here: http://www.ehow.com/how_5514047_make-hickory-smoked-salt.html
