Tasty BBQ Baby Back Ribs

Tasty BBQ Baby Back Ribs

Here is my BBQ baby back ribs recipe. I put it together based on my recollection of how I did it in the past. If you care to try it, I welcome your comments. Jingjing had tried it and Bobby was her test subject.

Direction

• Use 1 whole slab of Baby Back Ribs and cut it into slabs of 4 ribs each.
• Rub both sides of the ribs with vegetable oil
• Make enough marinade to cover the ribs in a large mixing bowl. Cover the bowl with plastic film and store the meat in the fridge. Marinade the ribs at least overnight.
• Pre-heat the oven to 275 oF about 3 ½ hours before the serving time.
• Remove ribs from the marinade and arrange them in a deep baking pan; meat side down.
• Pour the sauce over the ribs. Some sauce will stay on the ribs and some will drip to the bottom of the pan. It can be used for potatoes, carrots and/or yams.
• Cover the pan with aluminum foil and place the pan on the middle rack of the oven..
• Bake the ribs covered for 2 hours at 275 oF.
• Remove the aluminum foil and baste both sides of the ribs with sauce in the pan.
• Increase the oven temperature to 375 oF and bake the ribs uncovered for 45 minutes.
• Baste the ribs again with sauce in the pan and lightly sprinkle the ribs with garlic salt, sugar and ground pepper mix. Set the over to broil.
• Broil the ribs (meat side up) uncovered for 10 to 15 minutes until the meat is golden brown or slightly burned on the edge.
• Turn the oven off and keep the ribs in the oven for 10 more minutes before serving.

Potato, Carrots or Yams

• You can add some potatoes, carrots or yam in the baking pan and bake them with the ribs.
• Coat the potato, carrots or yam with vegetable oil and sprinkle them with black pepper and garlic salt 20 minutes prior to the baking process.
• Add the vegetables in the pan and mix then with the sauce.
• Bake them with the ribs from the beginning.

Marinade:

3 tbsp                           Hoisin sauce

3 tbsp                           Ketchup

3 tbsp                           Honey

¼ cup                           Kikkoman soy sauce

¼ cup                           Kikkoman – Aji-Mirin (Sweet Cooking Rice Wine)

2 tbsp                           Cooking Wine

1/4 cup                         Water or chicken stock

3 tbsp                           Sugar

2 tbsp                           Lemon Juice

1 tsp                             Worcestershire sauce

3 cloves                        Garlic – smashed

1 tsp                             Ginger – minced

1 tsp                             Orange zest

Salt & Black Pepper

Tips:

• Make enough marinades to immerse the ribs.
• Taste the sauce and add salt if necessary.
• Evenly coat the vegetables with the sauce during the baking process
• You might want to wrap the inside of the baking pan with aluminum foil so that it won’t be too messy afterwards. I completely covered the inside of the pan with heavy duty aluminum foil before placing the ribs inside. Cleaning up is a cinch.
• Make sure you use timer when broil the ribs if you have other things to do. Check them every five minutes from outside of the oven to make sure the ribs are not burned.
  • Prepare the potatoes and lightly coat them with lemon sauce to prevent oxidation.
  • Mix the marinades with some vegetable oil before pouring it on the ribs. It makes a more tasty sauce.
  • Add some white onions with the vegetables before baking starts. The sweetness and aroma of the onions makes the vegetables more interesting.

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Syrah