Easy Oven Baked BBQ Ribs
No fuss BBQ ribs cooked in your favorite BBQ sauce.
Equipment
- Rimmed baking sheet -OR- glass baking dish
- Silicone pastry brush
- Small sauce pan
Ingredients
- 1 rack St. Louis pork ribs
- 4 tbsp dry rub I like sweet hickory or anything maple
- 1½ cups BBQ sauce I used Lillie's Carolina Barbeque Sauce
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 250°.
- Pat your rack of ribs dry with paper towels then season generously with the dry rub of your choice, salt and pepper.
- Using a sharp knife poke holes all across the skin side of the rack of ribs.
- Wrap the rack of ribs tightly in foil and set them on a rimmed baking sheet or a glass baking dish. This will catch any juices that run out of the foil pack to reserve for the BBQ glaze.
- Bake at 250° for 2.5-3 hours.
- Remove the rack of ribs and carefully remove them from the foil making sure to reserve the cooking liquid from the foil and the pan.
- Turn the oven temperature up to 350°.
- Pour the cooking liquid into a small sauce pan and place the rack of ribs back on the sheet pan or glass baking dish.
- Brush both sides of the rack of ribs with 1 cup of your favorite BBQ sauce (reserving the remaining ½ cup for the glaze).
- Return the ribs to the oven uncovered, meat side up, for 45-55 minutes.
- Let ribs rest 15-20 minutes before cutting. While you wait make the BBQ Glaze.
BBQ Glaze
- Combine the reserved cooking liquid from the ribs and ½ a cup of your favorite BBQ sauce in a small sauce pan. Simmer for 20 minutes to reduce by half. Pour over individual ribs once plated.
Notes
If you do not have a pastry brush, use the back of a spoon or a spatula to coat the BBQ sauce on the rack of ribs.
If you are using baby back ribs you will need to adjust the cook time to 2 hours at 250° followed by brushing the ribs with the BBQ sauce and going back in the oven for 45 minutes at 350°.