How To BBQ Pork Ribs

See if your neighbour can top you at the barbecue next time. Learn from a master chef how to cook pork ribs and a winning barbecue sauce to put on it. Enlarge

How To BBQ Pork Ribs

See if your neighbour can top you at the barbecue next time. Learn from a master chef how to cook pork ribs and a winning barbecue sauce to put on it.

Prep:
10m
Cook:
20m
Total:
30m
Serves:
5
Temp:
180° c  -  360° f

Step 1: You will need

  • 5 Ribs
  • Ketchup
  • Garlic
  • Cumin
  • Soy Sauce

Hello, there. I'm going to show you how to barbecue pork ribs. What we've done is put a barbecue over these - look at them - beautiful fat ribs.

I'm just going to stick them on top of our white hot coals. Now, if you look at how we actually set the coals up, only half the barbecue has got coals on it, which enables me to move them around, and that's an invisible temperature gauge. If they're getting a bit overcooked, turn them around, and once they're cooked, I can lay them to rest over here; they'll retain their heat and I can put other things on the barbecue.

But because this is the hottest part of the barbecue - look, you probably saw that already caught - I'm just going to turn these around and move that one. Look - nice and cooked. Now, once these are just charring off nicely, and for me, ribs in a barbecue, definitely what it's about, you'll want to know what went in the rib sauce that we dressed the ribs with.

It's quite simple: you get quite a little tomato ketchup, put in some cumin, maybe some onion, some garlic, I like to put a bit of soy sauce in as well, a little bit of chilli powder just to give it a kick. The thing that really sets this on fire, though, is adding some dark brown soft sugar. That really gives an enriched flavor to it.

I just put them in a bag, put the sauce in a bag, give them a good shake, ideally, leave them overnight, ready for your barbecue the next day. And you stick these out, who's not going to want that? Vegetarians, maybe. But for my money, this is what a barbecue's all about.

I reckon, probably about another minute and a half, and then we're done. Those are now beautifully cooked. Just have a look at that - charred all over.

Absolutely delicious! Everyone is going to groan with pleasure when you serve them. And that is how you barbecue pork ribs. .