Cooking Pork Ribs In Oven

Pork ribs succulent and tender falling off the bone with a wonderful sticky BBQ sauce makes for a superb meal in it’s own right with jacket potatoe skins and dipping sauce it does not come much tastier than that does it?!

So, how do you go about cooking pork ribs in the oven producing such wonderfully tasty results?

There are a mulitide of methods and recipes to cook ribs in the oven and some considerable preparation which can be conducted upon the ribs to enahnce and infuse the meat with different flavours. A popular method of flavouring your baby back pork ribs is to smoke them using various types of smoking chips, Oak being a truly exceptional flavour for ribs.

But lets say we do not have a smoker and just wish to bake our ribs in the oven without too much fuss but still giving us some tasty, and tender ribs. Below is my twist on a simple yet delicious method of baking ribs in the oven. Ensure that you prepare in advance for this dish though given the cooking times involved which primarily are to ensure that your pork ribs fall off the bone yet are still succulent and full of flavour.

Basic Oven Cooked Pork Ribs with BBQ Sauce

1. Preheat your oven to 250 degrees

2. Brush the ribs with some BBQ sauce (BBQ ketchup or a purpose bought BBQ sauce)

3. Place the ribs in an oven proof roasting tray (if they are too long simply cut into sizable pieces to fit)

4. Make up some pork stock from a stock cube (usually 1 cube to 1 pint of stock)

5. Pour the stock into the roasting tray to a depth of 1cm (reserve the remaing for later)

6. Cover with tight fitting foil and bake in the oven for 2 and half hours turning once halfway through cooking (top up the liquid with remaining stock at the halfway point if needed).

7. After 2 and a half hours remove the foil and coat with more BBQ sauce and bake in the oven for a further 15 mintues, turn baste with BBQ sauce and roast for a further 15 minutes.

After 3 hours of cooking in the oven your BBQ pork ribs will now be succulent (from the steaming) and tender (3 hour cooking time). Leave to rest for 5 minutes covered loosly with the foil and then eat!

How Long Do You Cook Pork Baby Back Ribs

Pork Baby Back ribs are a firm favourite and for very good reason. Packed full of flavour and further enhanced through seasonings and Hickory Smoked BBQ Pork flavourings (a favourite of mine) these little finger sized ribs are very tender and succulent but exactly how long do you cook pork baby back ribs for?

The most common way of preparing baby back pork ribs is to boil the ribs for around 45 mintutes in boiling water. This in effect further tenderises the ribs and cooks them through. Once cooked, drained and cooled (they are best left overnight in the refrigerator) they will then requiring roasting in a hot oven.

Place the ribs into an appropriate ovenproof dish and cover with tin foil and cook at around 250 degrees for 3 hours. Once cooled, it is now time to add your seasonings whether that is via some form of tasty sauce spread over the ribs or dry seasoning which ever you will then need to place the ribs under the a medium grill for around 4 minutes or until they are slightly crispy (but not burnt!).

If you are using a sauce take care when grilling your pork ribs that the heat setting is moderate and not too hot otherwise you will simply burn the sauce leaving the ribs underneath slightly soggy.

Quite a protracted process I know, to get the ribs to the grill, but well worth the effort!