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BBQ Pork Spare Ribs 

By: Cindy Lam Lorimer
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 4 hours 30 minutes
Total Time: 4 hours 50 minutes
Servings: 5

Ingredients

Marinade/Rub:

  • 5 lb pork spareribs, or baby back ribs, whole slab and not cut into separate ribs, equivalent to 2 racks
  • ½ cup yellow mustard
  • 2 Tbsp garlic salt
  • 2 Tbsp onion powder
  • 2 Tbsp sugar
  • 1 Tbsp black pepper
  • 2 Tbsp paprika
  • 1 tsp dried oregano
  • 2 Tbsp olive oil

Aromatics for roasting: 

  • 1 onion, sliced
  • 4 garlic cloves, smashed
  • 2 thyme sprigs
  • ¼ cup apple cider , or apple juice

BBQ sauce:

  • pan juice from ribs
  • ¼ cup brown sugar
  • 2 Tbsp white vinegar
  • 3 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce
  • 1 cup ketchup
  • 2 thyme sprigs

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 275 degrees.
  • Pat spareribs dry with paper towel.
  • If your ribs still have the membrane on the back, remove it before marinating — some butchers remove this for you, so check first.
  • Mix all marinade ingredients together and lather on the spareribs.
  • Place aluminum foil on the roasting pan, then add aromatic ingredients, place spareribs over them and cover entirely with aluminum foil. Slow bake spareribs for 4 hours.
  • Remove spareribs from the oven and save the pan juice. Discard the aluminum foil.
  • Increase oven temperature to 400 degrees.
  • Strain pan juice into a small saucepan and remove and discard as much of the oil sitting on top as possible. Then add BBQ sauce ingredients to the saucepan. Bring it to a boil, then reduce the heat to low and let it simmer for 30 minutes.
  • Place ribs back on the roasting pan.
  • Place pan back in the oven and bake for another 25 minutes.
  • Pull the BBQ ribs out and brush on cooked BBQ sauce. Place back in oven and bake for 5 additional minutes.
  • Keep some BBQ sauce on the side to dip BBQ ribs with.

Nutrition

Serving: 1portion | Calories: 1479kcal | Carbohydrates: 41g | Protein: 73g | Fat: 113g | Saturated Fat: 35g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 19g | Monounsaturated Fat: 44g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 363mg | Sodium: 4009mg | Potassium: 1538mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 30g | Vitamin A: 1703IU | Vitamin C: 8mg | Calcium: 156mg | Iron: 7mg