Baked BBQ Baby Back Ribs. Chef John’s indoor baby back ribs are seasoned with a homemade dry rub, then glazed with barbeque sauce and baked until tender and delicious. For make ahead ‘ready to BBQ Ribs’ I usually coat the ribs in the dry rub and wrap tightly and let sit in the refrigerator over night. Learn how to make Baked BBQ Baby Back Ribs!
We bake the ribs before adding any sauce, then when they are baked, we brush on our favorite barbecue sauce. You can use the barbecue sauce suggested in the recipe below (it’s so simple to make) or use your favorite homemade or store-bought. Here’s what you need: baby back ribs, salt, black pepper, paprika, cayenne pepper, dried oregano, brown sugar, BBQ sauce, green beans. You can have Baked BBQ Baby Back Ribs using 3 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Baked BBQ Baby Back Ribs
- Prepare 1 rack of baby back pork ribs.
- It’s of Badia Holy Smokes pork and meat rub or dry rub of your choosing.
- You need 1 cup of Sweet Baby Ray’s Sweet ‘n Spicy Barbecue Sauce.
Rub in the seasonings evenly on both sides. Place the ribs on a baking sheet lined with foil. First things first, rinse your ribs. Usually, ribs come vacuum-packed and can be sitting in liquid that you definitely want to wash away.
Baked BBQ Baby Back Ribs step by step
- Preheat oven to 250 degrees.
- Place ribs meat side down on aluminum foil. Prick back of ribs several times with a knife..
- Generously apply coating of dry rub to all sides of ribs.
- With ribs meat side down fold foil around it tightly. Place on a sheet pan..
- Bake for 2 hours. Remove and cool 15 minutes..
- Increase oven temp to 350 degrees F.
- Open foil,drain and discard accumulated juices and fat.Brush barbacue sauce on all sides of ribs..
- Place ribs meat side up on the foil on the pan. Leave foil open..
- Bake for 10 minutes remove from oven brush another coat of barbacue sauce on meat side only. Repeat baking and brushing with sauce 4 times for total of 50 minutes..
The key to cooking great baked ribs is low temp and lots of time. Yes, “baked barbecued” baby back ribs is an oxymoron, because if you bake ribs, you are certainly NOT barbecuing them. When time and/or weather prevents us from getting to the smoker, though, this oven method for barbecued baby back ribs works great. This is the Ultimate BBQ Baby Back Rib Recipe! Cooked slow in the oven with a homemade spice rub, then finished on the grill with your favorite BBQ sauce.