For years I have been “afraid” of cooking ribs. I enjoy the meat, i enjoy when others make it for me, I just wasn’t willing to risk making it myself
Today was the day! As luck would have it, we got a free can of dr pepper. So I got the necessary items from store and chuckle the whole time, that my “free” soda was making a $20 dollar meal. hahahaha
I followed the instructions, but could only find a little bit of the sinew, but it all ended up cooking just fine, so perhaps it had already been removed. But that is also another “scary” reason why i haven’t cooked this meat prior.
We used our favorite BBq sauce – devil spit and off it went for 8 hours
Slow Cooker Dr Pepper Ribs
Notes
Careful with the dr pepper, it can wash off your bbq sauce and spices.
Ingredients
- 4 lbs. rack baby back pork ribs (1 rack is usually about 3-4 pounds, any size that will fit in the slow cooker will work fine.
- ¼ tsp. pepper
- ½ tsp. garlic powder
- 1 tsp. hickory liquid smoke
- 1 cup barbecue sauce (I use Sweet Baby Rays)
- 12 oz. can Dr. Pepper
Instructions
- Remove the sinew from the ribs (it’s the white slimey thing on the rounded back part of the ribs.) Do this by lifting a edge of it up with a knife, then grabbing it with 2 fingers. If your lucky the entire things will come off in one pull.
- Cut the ribs into 4 even sections, or in half. Doesn’t matter how you slice it.
- Add to the slow cooker
- Sprinkle over the pepper, garlic powder and add the liquid smoke.
- Drizzle over the barbecue sauce.
- Pour the Dr. Pepper in.
Verdict:
Fall off the bone delicious!
I would definitely make this again
I’m also very proud of myself for trying a new recipe for something that scared me! You can be strong and successful too!
