How to Cook BBQ Ribs with a Stovetop / Oven

Good BBQ style ribs taste great, but can be a pain to make in an outdoor smoker or on a BBQ grill. Here's how to do everything in the comfort of your own kitchen using just your conventional stovetop & oven.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Stovetop / Oven
• Country Style Pork Ribs
• Garlic
• Pepper
• Salt
• Cinnamon
• Kraft Thick & Tangy Spicy BBQ Sauce
• Tongs
• Stew Pot
• Baking Pan / Sheet
• Frying Pan
• Basting Brush

1. Place your defrosted country style pork ribs into a large stew pot. When the ribs fill the pot about halfway (or slightly more) that's a full pot. You want enough extra room in the pot so that in case the water boils up it doesn't, overflow.

2. Now that your ribs are in the pot, put in your seasoning. Put about 2 tablespoons of salt, pepper (fresh ground if possible), and garlic powder or fresh chopped garlic over the ribs. For an additional mystery ingredient, try adding a half teaspoon of cinnamon to the seasonings.

3. After the seasoning has been added to the pot, add water to the pot just until the water covers the ribs. Use hot water to fill the pot to shorten the time it takes to get that water to a boil.

4. Put the pot onto your stove at high heat. Get the water to a low boil.

5. When the water in your pot reaches a boil, reduce the heat to bring that boil down to a simmer. Cover the pot with a lid and keep an eye on it so that it doesn't boil over. If it starts to boil up, just reduce the heat for a little while. Keep the ribs cooking in the pot for about 60 minutes.

6. Preheat your oven to 300 degrees F. about 10 - 15 minutes before your pot cooking is done. Get out a baking pan / sheet and take out your BBQ sauce and basting brush.

7. After cooking in the pot for 60 minutes, take the ribs out of the water and place them into your baking pan. Try to shake off all the excess water when pulling them out of the pot.

8. Once all of the ribs are in the baking pan, use the basting brush to liberally coat your ribs in BBQ sauce. If you have enough sauce, cover the ribs in sauce (but not so much sauce that they "dissappear" in your pan).

9. Put your baking pan into the oven for about 60 minutes to allow the ribs to cook further.

10. After 60 minutes, take your ribs out of the oven. Put your baking pan on the stove top for easy access and get out a large frying pan.

11. Put your frying pan onto the stovetop and heat it up on high. You want the frying pan to be very hot so we can sear the ribs very quickly to simulate the charring you'd get from a BBQ-flame grill.

12. Once the pan is hot enough, give each rib another quick basting of BBQ sauce before throwing into the frying pan. Use your best judgement when cooking in the pan so that you carmelize the BBQ sauce onto the meat and also slightly char the ribs as well. You just want a little bit of the ribs to blacken, but not the entire thing.

13. Once done "grilling" your ribs in the frying pan, put them on a plate to serve hot off the grill. Put a little more BBQ sauce on them and you're good to go!!!

Tips & Warnings

• When buying your your pork ribs at the supermarket, look for "country style pork ribs" or just ask your butcher for the equivalent. Country style cut ribs are usually significantly cheaper than "baby back" pork ribs, but are just as tasty. If you need to cook a meat dish for a lot of people, this is one of the more cost efficient meats to choose.
• When grilling the ribs in your frying pan, you don't need to use any oil or non-stick cooking spray. We're not trying to "fry" the ribs, we're using an extremely hot pan to sear and char the ribs.
• After finishing your cooking with the frying pan, let that pan soak in water before cleaning because there's probably going to be a lot of burnt meat and dried BBQ sauce stuck to it.
• When shaking water off of the ribs when you remove them from the stew pot, be very careful. You don't want to drop the rib by accident and splash yourself with the steaming hot water in the pot!
• For sanitary purposes you should use a clean basting brush and tongs for each stage of the cooking process.
• Always use a clean tray / pot / plate when transferring the ribs. Don't place your cooked ribs back into the same container that was holding them raw.