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Tender, juicy, fall-off-the-bone, finger-licking ribs in less than 30 minutes made in a pressure cooker.
Why We Love This Recipe
Pressure cooking ribs is a great way to get tender juicy BBQ ribs without spending hours and hours of preparation and slow cooking. This is a fantastic instant pot/pressure cooker beginner recipe to get you the confidence and love for pressure cooking. But don’t shy away because it’s beginner – it’s definitely a recipe you will use over and over.
Ingredients
Let’s Make Instant Pot BBQ Ribs
- Remove ribs from packaging and pat dry with a paper towel.
- Loosen and remove the membrane on the back of the ribs but lifting it with a knife and then tearing it off with your hands.
- Mix dry rub ingredients in a small bowl.
- Rub the dry mix on both sides of the ribs.
- Place the water and the vinegar into the pressure cooker.
- Place the ribs in the pressure cooker standing up with the meaty side facing inward.
- Cook the ribs for 25 minutes with self-release or natural release for 15 minutes.
- Cover a cookie sheet with aluminum foil and when the ribs are finished in the pressure cooker, transfer them to the cookie sheet.
- Set the oven to broil.
- Brush both sides of the ribs with bottled BBQ sauce or homemade BBQ sauce and broil them for 5 minutes. Watch the ribs carefully and don’t walk away because they will begin to brown quickly. If the ribs are cooking faster than 5 minutes, remove them, and if they appear to need another minute or two cook them a bit longer.
- Cut the ribs into individual rib pieces or serve them as a slab.
Krazy Kitchen Mom Tips
- When removing the membrane, use a paper towel in your hands to get a good grip because the meat is slippery. Even better, have the butcher at your market remove the membrane for you.
- Rib cooking times are important. For this recipe, I used pork spare ribs which take 25-30 minutes while baby back ribs will take 20-25 minutes.
- If you like ribs with a smokey outdoor flavor, use a few drops of liquid smoke in the water to infuse the smoky flavor.
- It’s best to broil the ribs before cutting them. Let them cool for a few minutes after broiling before cutting.
- Use a good store-bought BBQ sauce. Sweet Baby Rays is my go-to sauce. You can also make homemade BBQ sauce. My Peach BBQ Sauce goes perfectly on these ribs.
More KKM Pressure Cooker/Instant Pot Recipes
- Instant Pot Pork Carnitas
- Instant Pot Hard Boiled Eggs
- Instant Pot Coconut Lime Rice
- Pressure Cooker Red Wine Short Ribs
- Pressure Cooker Corned Beef
Instant Pot BBQ Ribs
Tender, juicy, fall-off-the-bone, finger-licking ribs in less than 20 minutes made in a pressure cooker.
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Servings: 4 servings
Ingredients
Dry Rub
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 tbsp paprika
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
Other Ingredients
- 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
- 3/4 cup water
- bottled BBQ sauce
Instructions
- Remove ribs from packaging and pat dry with a paper towel.
- Loosen and remove the membrane on the back of the ribs but lifting it with a knife and then tearing it off with your hands.
- Mix dry rub ingredients in a small bowl.
- Rub the dry mix on both sides of the ribs.
- Place the water and the vinegar into the pressure cooker.
- Place the ribs in the pressure cooker standing up with the meaty side facing inward.
- Cook the ribs for 25 minutes with self-release or natural release for 15 minutes.
- Cover a cookie sheet with aluminum foil and when the ribs are finished in the pressure cooker, transfer them to the cookie sheet.
- Set the oven to broil.
- Brush both sides of the ribs with bottled BBQ sauce or homemade BBQ sauce and broil them for 5 minutes. Watch the ribs carefully and don't walk away because they will begin to brown quickly. If the ribs are cooking faster than 5 minutes, remove them and if they appear to need another minute or two cook them a bit longer.
- Cut the ribs into individual rib pieces or serve them as a slab.
Notes
Krazy Kitchen Mom Tips
- When removing the membrane, use a paper towel in your hands to get a good grip because the meat is slippery. Even better, have the butcher at your market remove the membrane for you.
- Rib cooking times are important. For this recipe, I used pork spare ribs which take 25-30 minutes while baby back ribs will take 20-25 minutes.
- If you like ribs with a smokey outdoor flavor, use a few drops of liquid smoke in the water to infuse the smoky flavor.
- It’s best to broil the ribs before cutting them. Let them cool for a few minutes after broiling before cutting.
- Use a good store-bought BBQ sauce. Sweet Baby Rays is my go-to sauce. You can also make homemade BBQ sauce. My Peach BBQ Sauce goes perfectly on these ribs.
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