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Oven Baked Barbecue Spare Ribs

Andie Mitchell
4 to 6 servings
Beginner

This sauce can be served over spare ribs and mashed potatoes.

Total Steps

2

Ingredients

11

Tools Needed

3

Ingredients

  • 1 <a href="/food/YCPMHNRB/onion">onion</a>
  • 2 tablespoons Butter or shortening
  • 0 <a href="/food/SWV3CGDQ/pepper">pepper</a> to taste
  • 0 <a href="/food/7WDLGSY7/salt">Salt</a>
  • 0.75 of a 14 oz. bottle <a href="/food/GH7F8TJP/catsup">catsup</a>
  • 2 teaspoons <a href="/recipe/7H6GRJ2P/kitchen-bouquet">Kitchen Bouquet</a>
  • 1 teaspoon <a href="/food/PCGHNLWF/lemon-juice">lemon juice</a>
  • 1 tablespoon <a href="/food/Y4YDG2F4/vinegar">vinegar</a>
  • 2 tablespoon <a href="/food/GHZ654L7/brown-sugar">brown sugar</a>
  • 1 qt. <a href="/food/PXTR53Z5/water">water</a> (boiling hot)
  • 1 strip (2 ½ - 3 lbs.) <a href="/food/NY43YG7Z/spare-ribs">spare ribs</a>

Instructions

1

Step 1

Add boiling water to a large roasting pan, add vinegar, brown sugar, lemon juice, Kitchen Bouquet, and catsup, stir and mix well.

2

Step 2

Cut spare ribs into strips and add salt and pepper to taste. Brown spare ribs in 2 tablespoons shortening. When brown, put in a roaster with catsup mixture. Peel onion and put in pan. Cover. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour then turn meat over. Add more water to sauce if necessary. Return to oven and bake 1 more hour. To thicken sauce combine 3 tablespoons flour and 1/2 cup water and mix. Take onion out of pan and add mixture to thicken sauce 1/2 hour before end of cooking time. The sauce will thicken during the last half hour of cooking.

Tools & Equipment

Roasting pan
Roaster
Oven

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