Food & Wine
Smoked honey sesame pork ribs
These old school American-style ribs are the perfect use of a barbeque smoker for a weekend dinner.
Preparation: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 2 h 40 minutes
Serves: 4
Ingredients:
- 2 racks pork ribs
- 100 g honey
- 100 g butter, sliced
- 50 g sesame seeds
- 1 spring onion (scallion), thinly sliced
Rub (Dry spice mix)
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon smoked paprika
- 1 teaspoon celery powder
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 1 tablespoon freshly cracked black pepper, finely ground
- 1 tablespoon kosher salt
Method:
- Combine all of the rub ingredients in a bowl.
- Remove the membrane from the underside of the pork ribs and apply liberal coating of the rub to completely cover all sides of the ribs.
- Indirectly hot smoke the ribs for 1 hour inside a barbecue smoker at 130°C with apple or peach wood chunks or chips.
- Remove the ribs from the smoker and drizzle with the honey, top with sliced butter.
- Double wrap each rack of ribs in foil and return to the smoker for a further 1½ hours at 130°C.
- Allow the ribs to rest for 10 minutes before slicing and sprinkling with sesame seeds and spring onion to serve.
Tips:
- Drizzle with extra pre-smoked honey before serving for an extra sweet kick.
This is an edited extract from Ribs: With Low and Slow BBQ Guide by Adam Roberts, New Holland Publishers, RRP $45, available from all good bookstores or online.
Republished with permission of Wyza.com.au.