This easy oven baked bbq baby back ribs recipe is cooked at 300F covered in foil for 2 ½ hours. After baking, remove foil cover, baste pork ribs with barbecue sauce, and caramelize the bbq sauce on the ribs in the final moments of cooking.
These four ingredient baked baby back ribs are so tender that they fall off the bone. Bonus: they are extremely easy to make.
Look no further for a tender fall off the bone oven baked baby back ribs recipe. These oven baked ribs will become an easy "go to" pork rib recipe.
Love your crock-pot or slow cooker? Throw the pork baby back ribs in it with the BBQ sauce and cook on low for 8 hours.
How Many People Does A Rack of Baby Back Ribs Serve
4-5 lbs of ribs sounds like a lot until you start eating... One large rack of baby back ribs generally weighs ~2 ½ lbs and serves 3 people.
It's just as easy to bake two racks of baby backs at the same time.
Buy two racks of pork ribs and have leftovers. Can't go wrong with leftover ribs!
How To Take The Membrane Off of Baby Back Ribs
Pull any fat off the ribs that easily comes off with your fingers. If you can’t pull it off then it supposed to be there.
Fat and the pork membrane are slippery. Grab a couple paper towels - it will make it easier to grasp the membrane and pull it off.
Make a knife cut through the membrane but not through the meat. It is located on the bony side of pork ribs. The cut gives you a place to grab and pull. Watch the video below for help.
Sometimes the butcher does this already. Sometimes the membrane is so thin that's it impossible to get it off.
Don't understand what the membrane is? Skip taking it off, most people and restaurants skip it anyway and it can be pulled off after the ribs are cooked while eating.
The difference between Pork Baby Back Ribs and St. Louis Style Ribs:
- Baby back pork ribs are above St. Louis ribs and located near the top of the ribs by the loin / spine. The bones are smaller and more curved compared to St. Louis ribs. St. Louis ribs are located more toward the belly and are flatter and bigger.
- Baby back ribs are a little more tender, leaner, and therefore cost more cash than St. Louis ribs. St. Louis ribs have a little more flavor and fat than baby back ribs.
Oven Baked BBQ Baby Back Ribs Recipe FAQS
Cook baby back ribs in the oven covered at 300F for 2 ½ hours.
With this recipe - yes! Cover baby back ribs tightly with two layers of aluminum foil before baking for extremely tender fall off the bone ribs.
A 2 ½ pound rack of pork baby back ribs generally feeds around 3 people. A rack of ribs has between 10-13 ribs.
Oven Baked BBQ Baby Back Ribs
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This easy oven baked bbq baby back ribs recipe is cooked at 300F covered in foil for 2 ½ hours. After baking, remove foil cover, baste pork ribs with barbecue sauce, and caramelize the bbq sauce on the ribs in the final moments of cooking.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 150 minutes
- Total Time: 2 hours 35 minutes
- Yield: 6
- Category: Main Dish / Dinner
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
- Diet: Gluten Free
Ingredients
Ingredient List Ribs:
- 4-5 lb Pork Baby Back Ribs (2 racks or 1 big rack)
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- ¾ cup BBQ Sauce or Ingredients below to make it yourself.
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 300F and line a baking sheet with aluminum foil for easy clean up.
For the sauce:
- Use a store bought bbq sauce (my fav. by far is Sweet Baby Ray's Original)
For the ribs:
- Pull any fat off the ribs that easily comes off with your fingers (if you can't pull it off then it supposed to be there!). Peel off any tough membrane that is on the bony side of the ribs if it's not done already.
- salt and pepper the ribs
- Cut the ribs into manageable sizes (if needed) that will fit onto a baking sheet.
- Line a baking sheet
with two large sheets of aluminum foil for each rack of ribs (enough to cover the ribs).
- Place ribs meat side up (bones down) in the foil and crimp the foil into packets and place on baking sheet. Bake 2 ½ hours or until ribs are tender.
- Uncover ribs (careful - it's hot!), slather with bbq sauce & broil uncovered for 2-4 minutes or until BBQ sauce is boiling and browned.
- Serve with potato salad and corn on the cob and extra barbecue sauce on the side. Add salt to taste. Happy Finger Lickin'! Beckie
with two large sheets of aluminum foil for each rack of ribs (enough to cover the ribs). Notes
- Love your crock-pot or slow cooker
? Throw the ribs in it with the BBQ sauce and cook on low for 8 hours.
? Throw the ribs in it with the BBQ sauce and cook on low for 8 hours.Things In My Kitchen:
- 12 x 17 jelly roll baking sheet - I use this for practically everything that goes in my oven.
- 6 quart crock-pot for days when I'm gone all day and want to come home and eat right away.
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Serving Suggestion
Serve my favorite BBQ Baby Back Ribs with a complementary side dish like a cool cucumber salad or cole slaw, or a Succotash, or go big and pair it with a potato salad.
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Found this on The So Good.
It looks great. I am going to try this for Memorial Day
Let me know how it turns out Mary Anne and give any feedback if you've got it. Thanks for trying it out!
I made these for a party on Saturday and they were a hit! Delicious and easy, my kind of recipe. Thanks, Beckie!
YAY LaReina! Total crowd pleaser and sooooo easy!