Baby Back Ribs

Recipe courtesy Dave Lieberman

Show: Good Deal with Dave LiebermanEpisode: BBQ Night

Rated: 5 stars out of 5Rate itRead users' reviews (47)

RECIPE
COMMENTS & REVIEWS(47)

Cook Time:
1 hr 15 min
Level:
Easy
Yield:
4 servings

Times:

Prep: 15 min
Inactive Prep: 10 min
Cook: 1 hr 15 min
Total:: 1 hr 40 min

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Ingredients

2 racks baby back ribs (about 2 1/2 pounds)
1 recipe Bourbon Barbecue Sauce, recipe follows

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Cut the racks of ribs in half crosswise. Rub the ribs, paying special attention to the meaty side, with 1/2 cup of the sauce. Lay the rib pieces meat side down in an 11 by 13-inch baking dish. The pieces will overlap slightly.

Cover the dish tightly with aluminum foil and bake until the meat begins to pull away from the ends of the bones and the ribs are just tender, about 1 hour. You can bake the ribs up to a day before and keep them refrigerated. Bring refrigerated ribs to room temperature about 1 hour before you grill them.

Preheat an outdoor grill to medium-high heat. Grill the ribs, brushing them with about half the remaining sauce, until they're crispy and heated through, about 10 minutes. Move the ribs around as they grill, the sugar in barbecue sauce makes it easy for them to burn. Let the ribs rest for 5 to 10 minutes before cutting them into 1 or 2-bone pieces. Put out the rest of the sauce for dipping or brush it over the ribs.

Bourbon Barbeque Sauce:

1/2 cup steak sauce

1/2 cup bourbon or good dark beer

2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce

1/4 cup packed dark brown sugar

1 teaspoon regular or grainy Dijon mustard

2 pinches red pepper flakes

Kosher salt

Stir all ingredients together in a small bowl until sugar is dissolved. The sauce will keep in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks.

Yield: about 1 1/2 cups

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Jessica Bridgeville, PA 09-17-2009
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My favorite!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

These are so good! My mom fell in love with the recipe, and so we make them all of the time. I love them, too! Yum :)
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Monique Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 08-11-2009
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Good ribs, Especially if you like Bourbon!
Rated: 4 stars out of 5

Followed recipe as written. Made this for a few friends--they really enjoyed them. Personally, I prefer a more BBQ Sauce... flavor to the Bourbon flavor!Read more
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Darren Fremont, CA 07-18-2009
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Excellent recipe
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

Never knew ribs could be so easy. The meat practically fell off the bones as I was removing the rack from the grill. Tasty!
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Emiko Portola Valley, CA 06-22-2009
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yummy yummy
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

yumm
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Brady Alpharetta, GA 05-26-2009
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Excellent
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

This was the first time I have cooked ribs and it was very easy and was very good. These turned out better than any ribs I... have ever had at any BBQ joint. I used to think that cooking good ribs meant spending a whole day dedicated to slow cooking and smoking your ribs with some secret sauce. Now I know it is pretty easy. This is how I will make them forever. Read more
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Paul Minneapolis, MN 05-24-2009
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Easy - excellent taste - GREAT tasting ribs
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

This was the first time I have ever cooked ribs and these were excellent. I took advice of some of the other reviewers and... increased the cooking time to almost 2 hours and probably could have done a little longer but the guests were arriving so needed to get busy with the grillin'. I had more ribs than the recipe so I ended up trippling the sauce incredients. For my family's tastes I probably should have used slightly less bourbon but not much. I used a steak sauce very similar to A1 and substituted a fake low sodium soy sauce for worstershire sauce because I am alergic to soy. Turned out awesome. Will make again. My 8 year old loved them and the wife gave a "we can have this again". Read more