Slow cooked with just a bit of flavor and then finished in the oven with your favorite sauce, these pork ribs are easy and delicious.
Ingredients
- kosher salt: 1 Tbsp
- white sugar: 1 Tbsp
- pork spareribs: 1 pound
- red pepper flakes: 0.5 tsp (to taste, optional)
- five-spice powder: 0.25 tsp (to taste, optional)
- ground black pepper: 0.25 tsp (to taste, optional)
- liquid smoke flavoring: 2 tsp (to taste, optional)
- barbecue sauce: 0.5 cup (to taste)
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Stages of cooking
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Mix salt and sugar together in a small bowl. Sprinkle all over ribs. Coat with red pepper flakes, five-spice powder, and black pepper. Slide ribs into a large vacuum-seal bag; pour in liquid smoke. Seal.
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Immerse bag in a heat-proof container of water with a sous vide cooker. Set temperature to 140 degrees F (60 degrees C); cook for 8 hours.
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Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C). Set oven rack about 6 inches from the heat source and turn on the broiler. Place a wire rack on top of a baking sheet.
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Pull ribs out of the bag; spread onto the prepared baking sheet and brush with barbeque sauce.
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Bake in the preheated oven until bubbly, 4 to 5 minutes. Flip and continue baking until other side bubbles, 2 to 3 minutes more.
