Easy Cook Ribs and Gourmet Warehouse Caribbean BBQ Sauce

     I recently had dinner with my dad and we decided to cook up some ribs to celebrate my new job.  So this is a little bit of a recipe and a little bit of a review at the same time.

     How we do our ribs, since we don't have a smoker, is that we cook them in the oven and then finish them on the grill.  This way we get fully cooked throughout without burning the sauce on it.

Easy Cook Ribs

by The Pirate Chef

Ingredients:

     1 Package of Pork Loin Back Ribs

     1 Tbl of Salt (I prefer to use sea salt)

     2 Tbls of Paprika

     1/2 Tbl of Ground Black Pepper

     BBQ Sauce

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F
2. Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil, use non-stick or wipe down with vegetable oil to prevent sticking.
3. Mix up salt, paprika, and black pepper in a bowl.  Feel free to double this if you think you'll need more.
4. Remove the packaging from the ribs, wash them well and pat dry with a paper towel.
5. Place the ribs upside-down (meat side down) on a plate and rub the seasoning mix into the underside of the ribs.
6. Flip the ribs over and rub the seasoning mix into the top and sides of the ribs.
7. Once the oven is preheated, slide the baking sheet with the ribs onto the center rack.
8. Cook for 1 1/2 hours.
9. Preheat the grill to med-low heat if you have gas, or cook with a little smaller amount of charcoal than you normally would. It's not going to take too long to finish the ribs off.
10. Once the ribs are done in the oven, carefully remove them from the baking sheet and place upside-down onto a plate to take to the grill.
11. Brush your BBQ sauce onto the underside of the ribs and flip over onto the grill.
12. Brush the tops and sides of the ribs with BBQ sauce as well. 
13. Let cook for a little bit, then flip and brush the underside again.
14. Repeat every couple of minutes until done.  Remember, you're not cooking the ribs, just finishing them up with sauce so don't overcook them. Mine came out perfectly cooked!
15. Enjoy with some good BBQ sides!

 

     For the sauce, I used Gourmet Warehouse's Caribbean BBQ Sauce and it was really good!

     Their sauce uses a ketchup base and some brown sugar for sweetness, no high fructose corn syrup here so that's really good!  The sauce does have a little citrus tanginess to it, something I wasn't expecting but it was a very nice change.  now this sauce does differ from your normal sweet and tangy bbq sauce in that it makes use of several Latin spices and spice mixes that we don't see too often in BBQ sauce.  All in all, the flavors are balanced out very well and gave a lot of flavor to the ribs and I'm looking forward to using it again on some other dishes soon.