Oven pork ribs - 5 simple recipes

It is very easy to cook pork ribs in the oven. A simple recipe does not imply lengthy preparation and the whole trick is to marinate the meat in advance. Despite the elementary technology of cooking, the dish turns out “to a feast and to the world” and worthily take a place on any holiday table. And small variations of the main recipe will help housewives to experiment and change the dish endlessly.

Oven pork ribs - a simple and tasty recipe

The first thing that is important for housewives to learn is the right choice of meat components. The best part is the brisket, it is moderately fat, and will always remain juicy. More tender meat in young pigs: an adult animal takes longer to cook, and prepared ribs chew with difficulty. It is easy to distinguish such a cut by fat of a yellowish tint. In general, there are no special tricks, and the necessary ingredients are always easy to find in the refrigerator.

You will need:

• Ribs - 1 kg.
• Salt, pepper to taste.
• Garlic (optional).
• Sunflower oil.

We wash the ribs with running water, remove excess fat, small parts of the bones. Dry with a paper towel. You can cut into large pieces, or leave the whole frame. The optimal serving size is 2 pieces of meat on the bone. Squeeze the garlic in sunflower oil, add salt there. Rub the mixture with ribs and leave to soak for 15-20 minutes. Ideally, pickle should be all night or at least 3 hours: such a dish is more difficult to dry, it remains juicy. At this time, preheat the oven to 180 degrees.

We put the ribs in the oven and bake for 40 minutes, occasionally pouring the allocated meat juice.The ribs will smell very appetizing, but they are considered ready only when the meat juice is completely transparent and a golden crust has formed on top. Serve the dish with boiled potatoes (you can cook pork ribs in the oven immediately with potatoes), and even better combines a complex side dish - potatoes and stewed cabbage. But the ribs are also suitable as an independent hot snack, for example, as an addition to foamy drinks. And baked ribs are ideally combined with sauces: from classic tomato sauce to satsebeli made from natural yogurt, mint, garlic and fresh cucumber.

Cunning! Can I take a frozen product? Perfect blown chilled. But in emergency cases, it is realistic to use meat from the freezer only to allow it to thaw naturally, without resorting to using a microwave. Then the ribs will be juicy, especially if they are pre-marinated.

How to cook baked in foil in the oven

 

Foil cooking is a real pleasure for many housewives. It is very simple, and moreover, it is very convenient in that you do not have to wash the baking dish from fat after a meal. Pork ribs in the oven in the foil - an elementary dish even for those who are new to cooking. In addition, you can serve ribs without removing them from the foil - this serving is effective and suitable for ceremonial feasts.

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The cooking instruction as a whole does not differ from the basic recipe: meat pieces are washed in the same way, greased with spices, and then each one is “wrapped” in a layer of foil. Meat slices are baked for 50 minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees and served with a side dish or sauce.

Secret! To form a beautiful crust, you can remove the top layer of foil 10 minutes before cooking and let the ribs fry. The grill function, which almost all ovens have today, is even better suited for these purposes.

Pork ribs in honey mustard sauce

Honey and mustard - a classic and, perhaps, the most fragrant sauce for baking ribs. The national cuisines of the Czech Republic, of individual regions of Germany, are simply inconceivable without this marinade for meat: chicken wings, shank, ribs are baked in it.

You will need:

• 1 kg. pork ribs.
• 2 tbsp. tablespoons of mustard.
• 3 tbsp. tablespoons of honey.
• Salt, pepper to taste.

Melt the honey in a water bath, mix with mustard. Rub the meat slices with the sauce, let the marinade soak the meat well. The best time for pickling is a few hours, so the sauce soaks the meat fibers completely, makes the meat more tender and much softer. Then we do everything the same way as in the main recipe - put the ribs in a mold and fry for 40 minutes.

An important nuance! Just a small game in proportions, an increase in the proportion of honey or mustard, significantly changes the taste of baked ribs. Want more sweets? Take more honey. Would you like a pinworm? Do not spare the mustard. And one more secret: Dijon mustard is used for marinade all over the world: the Russian national product is vigorous, while Dijon mustard is soft and aromatic.

With soy sauce in the oven

 

Today, Pan-Asian cuisine is in great fashion, and soy sauce is the very ingredient that gives the dish authenticity, and so recalls the cuisine of China and Japan. Soy sauce perfectly complements pork, so feel free to try the recipe, even if you are not a fan of Asia.

Ribs baked with sauce are easy and simple to prepare: the main thing here is to marinate the meat for longer and then it will literally slide off the bones after baking. Such a dish will be properly served with boiled friable rice, and separately offer several types of sauce.

What else to diversify the marinade:

• Garlic.
• Grated ginger.
• Lemon juice.
• Honey.

There are many variations of cooking pork with soy sauce, and each component brings its own flavor, changing the taste of the finished dish.

Pork Ribs - Oven BBQ

Barbecue is usually done outdoors.But what to do in the winter evenings when there is no opportunity to fry on an open fire? You can bake barbecue ribs directly in the oven and few of the guests will distinguish them from the original from the fire. The basic recipe remains the same, but with marinades you can experiment from the heart.

What marinades will help to give a taste of barbecue?

• Ready-made marinade with prunes - it will shade the ribs, fill it with a light smoked aroma.
• Vinegar.
• "Liquid smoke".

It is important to achieve a crust by frying pieces of meat on the grill. Serve ribs with boiled potatoes or french fries.

Sleeve cooking method

 

The roasting sleeve, like foil, greatly saves the time of the housewives for cleaning after cooking. The meat in the sleeve is cooked in its own juice, which makes it tender, juicy, and the fibers literally slide off the bones.

How to cook such ribs? Marinate pieces of meat, dry, grease with any marinade and spices, put in a baking bag or sleeve. Put the ribs in the preheated oven and simmer for 40-50 minutes at 180 degrees. Some housewives complain that the meat is obtained, as if boiled. The fix is ​​simple: just cut the bag 15 minutes before cooked and let the dish fry on top.

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You can cook pork ribs in the oven immediately with potatoes - it absorbs meat juice and becomes very tasty, turning into a satisfying, thorough side dish for men.

Gourmet Secrets You can supplement the food, make it richer if you put large pieces of any vegetables in the package: eggplant, pepper, zucchini, carrots. You will get a kind of vegetable stew, which is distinguished by a strong aroma, bright rich taste.

Pork ribs marinades

Fans of meat dishes are well aware of how a regular marinade is capable of unrecognizably changing the taste of a dish, shifting the emphasis from spice to sweet, from bitterness to spiciness.

The best marinades for pork ribs (in addition to the above) are recognized:

• Orange juice.
• Kefir.
• Yogurt.
• Natural yogurt and yogurt.
• Spicy tomato sauce and olive herbs.
• Tkemali (cherry plum sauce).

There are fans of unexpected marinating mixes like apricot sauce or pineapple based. In any case, baked pork ribs is far from a trivial dish and, with some efforts, fantasies, can bring real pleasure to gourmets every day.