Easy Oven Roasted Slow Cooked Pork Ribs

Preparation: 10 mins | Cooking Time: ~3½ hours | Serves: 4

Ingredients

• Baby back pork ribs (~1kg)
• 1 tbsp smoked paprika
• 1 tbsp onion powder
• 1 tbsp garlic powder
• 1 tbsp brown sugar
• ½ tsp salt
• ½ tsp pepper
• 1 tbsp honey
• 150ml apple juice

Method

• Heat oven to 140°c (~280°f)
• Combine, in a bowl, paprika, onion powder, garlic powder, sugar, salt and pepper.
• Liberally rub mixture over the ribs.
• Place ribs, rib side up (meat side down), in a roasting tray and add apple juice to the tray. Ribs should sit comfortably flat in the tray, if too long cut ribs in half and arrange appropriately.
• Tightly cover the tray with aluminum foil.
• Place in the oven 3 hours. At 1½ hours check and add a little more apple juice if required.
• After 3 hours remove and drain pan juices into saucepan.
• Set oven to grill and place ribs back to oven to grill for 5-10 minutes to colour. Keep an eye on them.
• At the same time, add honey to the pan juices and simmer, reducing until thickened.
• Once ribs have browned remove and liberally baste with pan juices and wrap in foil for 10 mins to rest.
• After resting, unwrap ribs and again baste with a little more of the reduced pan juices. 
• Slice the ribs into individual pieces and serve.

Tips & Alternatives

• Half way through cooking check to ensure there is ample liquid in the pan.
• You can add a little white wine and/or additional honey to the apple juice to make a slightly richer pan sauce.