SLOW COOKED RIBS

http://www.eat-tori.com/2011/06/slow-cooked-ribs-at-home.html

Equipment
1 large casserole dish or slow cooker. 1 bbq. 1 brush for basting.

Shopping/ foraging

1.8 kg of pork ribs (you can either buy them in a rack or separately- I find the separate ones easier to handle in the casserole dish and to grill. It also means you don't need to cut them before your eat them).
200 ml orange juice
300 ml of smoked BBQ sauce
100 ml tomato sauce
1 tablespoon of hot mustard
1 tablespoon of grated raw ginger
1 tablespoon of garlic, grated or sliced
1 tablespoon of Cayenne pepper (more or less depending on how spicy you like them)
2 tablespoons of marmalade, melted with 1 tablespoon of boiling water.

Here’s how we roll

1. The night before serving mix together the marinade in a big Tupperware. Mx in everything in except for 100ml of the smoked bbq sauce. Then tumble all of the ribs in it, snap the lid on and leave it in the fridge overnight to marinate.

2. Preheat the oven to 120 C or 250 F and put all of the ribs and the marinade in a big casserole pot to cook for 7 hours with the lid on. If I had a slow cooker, I’d put them in that and let them slowly cook all day.


3. Every two hours or so move the ribs around in the liquid to make sure they’re all covered. If you're scared by the amount of fat that's leaching out, you can ladle off some of the cooking liquid and put it in a jar in the fridge for two hours to chill. Then scoop off the fat that's solidified on the top and return the liquid to the pot. There's plenty of liquid to cook in, so they should be fine.

4. An hour before serving pluck the ribs out of the cooking liquid and transfer them to a platter and cover it with foil so they don’t dry out.

5. Let the bbq heat up. Before grilling baste the ribs with the extra bbq sauce, thinned with and a few tablespoons of the cooking liquid.

6. Cook the ribs on the bbq until the outside have crisped and charred a little.

7. I serve with rhubarb pickle (recipe coming soon) and a big green salad. And wet cloths to wipe sticky hands on.