How to cook Oven-Roasted Spare Ribs

Learn how to make delicious oven-roasted spare ribs. We like to use a lot of garlic in our recipe but you can use as much as you like!

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 1 rack pork spare ribs (we prefer baby-back ribs)
• Salt and pepper
• Olive oil
• Garlic
• Bay leaves (fresh or dried)
• Chicken broth
• Dry white wine (you can use cooking wine)
• Red-wine vinegar
• Honey
• Crushed hot red pepper

1. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.

2. Cut the rack of spare ribs between the bones into single ribs.

3. Pat the spare ribs dry and season them with salt and pepper. Toss them in a roasting pan (or a glass baking dish) with:
   1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil
   12 cloves garlic, peeled
   4 fresh or dried bay leaves
   1 cup chicken broth

4. Roast for 45 minutes to an hour. Turn occasionally until the ribs are golden brown.

5. While the ribs are roasting, make the glaze:
   1 cup dry white wine
   1/2 cup red-wine vinegar
   2 Tablespoons honey
   1-2 teaspoons crushed hot red pepper
   Stir together in a bowl until the honey is dissolved.

6. Pour the glaze over the ribs (after roasting 45 mins-1 hr). Continue baking for another 20-30 minutes, turning every few minutes until the glaze is syrupy.

Tips & Warnings

• crush each garlic clove with the flat of a large knife for more flavor
• you can substitute the chicken broth with beef broth
• for a sweeter rib you can add more honey to your glaze
• after adding the glaze, we usually start cooking rice pilaf (20-30 mins) which goes very nicely with the garlicy ribs!
• our favorite vegetable to serve with the ribs is broccoli!
• keep an eye on the ribs for the last 20-30 mins of cooking to make sure they don't dry out and make sure you turn them several times to get a good coating of glaze

[grimsleygl]

on 6/28/2009 Great recipe! Found it just at the point where I really needed it today. Thanks bunches. 5*'s

[argyle]

on 1/28/2009 This is a great way to cook ribs when it's too cold to BBQ! Thanks.