The Best Oven Roasted Ribs
Ready In: 3 hrs 20 mins
Serves: 6-8
Ingredients
- 6 tablespoons light brown sugar or 6 tablespoons dark brown sugar
- 6 tablespoons paprika
- 3 tablespoons black pepper
- 3 tablespoons garlic powder
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons salt, plus some for seasoning
- 9 tablespoons Dijon mustard or 9 tablespoons yellow mustard
- 2 teaspoons liquid smoke (optional)
- 3 pork sparerib racks (remove thin membrane on back of bones with paper towel) or 4 baby back rib racks (remove thin membrane on back of bones with paper towel)
- your favorite barbecue sauce
Directions
- Adjust one oven rack to low position, remove remaining oven rack, and heat oven to 250°.
- Mix a dry rub of the sugar, paprika, pepper, garlic powder and 1 1/2 teaspoons salt in a small bowl.
- Mix mustard and liquid smoke in another bowl.
- Lay ribs directly on removed oven rack and lightly sprinkle with salt.
- Brush both sides of slab with mustard mix and then sprinkle both sides with dry rub.
- Line jelly roll pan with a large sheet of heavy duty foil, extending foil so it covers oven rack.
- Slide rack with ribs into upper-middle position and place foil lined pan on lower oven rack, making sure that foil covers rack.
- Bake/roast ribs until fork-tender, 2-3 hours for spareribs and 1 1/2 hours-2 hours for baby back ribs.
- If coating ribs with barbecue sauce, remove foil lined jelly roll pan from oven and pour off excess fat.
- Transfer ribs to foil lined pan meat side up.
- Turn on broiler and brush ribs with sauce and broil until bubbly but not burned.
- Let stand for 5-10 minutes before serving.
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