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Home | Round-Ups | 11 Revelatory Rib Recipes for Memorial Day
By David Leite
Published May 26, 2021, Updated Jun 26, 2023
These rib recipes give you the option of making them on the grill, in the oven, even in the Instant Pot, pressure cooker, or slow cooker. What we're trying to say is you can revel in barbecued rib awesomeness rain or shine, all year long.
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Contents
- Barbecue Beef Ribs
- Amazing St. Louis Ribs
- Pressure Cooker Ribs
- Fall-Off-the-Bone Baby Back Ribs
- Smoked Spare Ribs
- Barbecued Baby Back Ribs
- Slow Cooker Ribs
- Smoked Pork Ribs
- St. Louis Style Ribs
- Vietnamese Pork Ribs
- Korean-Style BBQ Ribs
Geno Loro
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Barbecue Beef Ribs
Just like a country ham that’s dry-cured with salt and sugar and aged to perfection, a good beef rib sauce must balance sweet (in this case brown sugar) with spicy (cayenne and dry mustard). And, as with baby back pork ribs, beef ribs benefit from the added depth and complexity of a rich sauce because they don’t have that much flavor to begin with.
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Chia Chong
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Amazing St. Louis Ribs
Everyone is capable of making great barbecue on their own. The key is consistency, and the key to consistency is simple: Internal temperature always prevails over time. That makes these St. Louis ribs tender, the rub and sauce make them flavorful every time.
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Silvio Knezevic
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Pressure Cooker Ribs
These pressure cooker ribs, which are easy and ideal for the Instant Pot, are finished in the oven with a brown sugar and Dijon glaze. It's a super-fast method for knee-wobbling, lip-smacking, fall-off-the-bone tenderness.
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Quentin Bacon
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Fall-Off-the-Bone Baby Back Ribs
These fall-off-the-bone baby back ribs are first cooked low and slow in the oven and then slathered with a homemade chipotle maple barbecue sauce before being tossed on the grill for just a mere half hour for the finishing touch.
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Aimee Buxton
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Smoked Spare Ribs
These smoked spare ribs are coated in a spicy rub, slowly smoked, and finished with a Texas-style barbecue sauce. No smoker required.
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HLPhoto
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Barbecued Baby Back Ribs
These barbecued baby back ribs are first brined to keep them juicy, then liberally coated with a superlative spice rub made with paprika, chile, cumin, and pepper, and finally grilled low and slow until they’re almost falling-off-the-bone tender. So spectacular they require no sauce whatsoever.
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Keller + Keller
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Slow Cooker Ribs
These slow cooker ribs will feed a crowd and leave your oven free with these lip-smacking beauties.
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Keller + Keller
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Smoked Pork Ribs
I like to go all out and serve some of the classic sides to go with the smoked meat: mac and cheese, braised collards or turnip greens, potato salad, coleslaw, beans, cornbread, and corn on the cob.
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Johnny Miller
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St. Louis Style Ribs
St. Louis style ribs start with a sweet and spicy dry rub. Then we double down with tangy, sweet barbecue sauce made with red-wine vinegar and blackstrap molasses. Guaranteed to wobble knees.
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Ben Cole
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Vietnamese Pork Ribs
These Vietnamese pork ribs have layers of sweet, savory, and spicy thanks to its five spice marinade and a tangy citrus and soy basting sauce that clings to every crevice while the ribs finish on the grill.
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Ola Smit
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Korean-Style BBQ Ribs
Korean-style BBQ ribs are sticky, sweet, and tangy. Ginger, honey, brown sugar, and vinegar come together to infuse juicy ribs with Korean flavors. They're cooked in foil so the cleanup is easy-peasy, too.
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4 Comments
These all look absolutely yummy! and you have the right amount of variety. I, personally, could do without the “Piers Morgan Fox Nation ads tho”…. Disgusting.
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You should publish a recipe for pork ribs Rosticciana. Not all ribs need to be in the style of American BBQ.
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Thanks, Bkhuna. We’ll keep that in mind when we’re looking for and developing recipes.
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