Cooking meat in a slow cooker is always a good idea. Cooking meat slowly allows it to tenderize properly, ensuring that you get the texture you're looking for without drying the meat out. Meat recipes are among the most common slow cooker dishes. This pork riblets recipe is a great dinner to prepare for your hungry crew.
You don't need a lot of ingredients to make this dish shine. Along with the riblets, you'll need oil, a bottle of barbecue sauce, and some basic seasonings that most cooks likely already have on hand. The riblets will need to be browned in a skillet before going into the slow cooker.
This is definitely a workday type of meal. It will need to cook on low for eight hours, so you can pop it in before work and come home to a finished meal. Not having to cook in the evening will be worth having to get up a few minutes earlier to prepare this dinner!
Remember to reserve a quarter of the barbecue sauce for the end of the recipe. If you think you'll forget, it may be a good idea to squeeze out a quarter of the bottle and set it aside for later. If you do happen to forget to keep a quarter of the bottle for later, it isn't the end of the world!
Barbecue Pork Riblets
Ingredients:
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4 pounds pork riblets
1 tablespoon cumin
2 teaspoon pepper
2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 tablespoon oil
1 (18 ounce) bottle of barbecue sauce
Directions:
1. Combine cumin, pepper, salt, and garlic powder and rub onto riblets.
2. Heat oil in a medium skillet and brown riblets.
3. Layer the riblets and ¾ of the bottle of barbecue sauce in the slow cooker, making sure to coat all of the meat.
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4. Cook on low for 8 hours.
5. Remove riblets to a serving platter and coat with remaining barbecue sauce.