I've already cooked St. Louis style ribs, a pot roast, chicken and dumplings, Spanish rice, and baby lima beans in my new toy so I have a pretty good idea how to do this. Length of cooking time is really the only question. I googled it, of course, but the time to cook country style ribs seems to fall into two camps: ~10 minutes or ~45 minutes. I'm afraid 10 minutes won't get them done and certainly not tender. I'm also afraid that 45 minutes will overcook the ribs making them drier than I want...and also completely falling apart.
Completely falling apart would work if I was going for pulled pork, and I really love my pulled pork, but that's not the texture I'm going for. I want the meat well done and tender, but still hanging together so I can get the ribs out of the pot in one piece for the next step.
I plan to put a dry rub on the ribs before they go into the pot, cook them, then put them on a baking sheet, slather barbecue sauce all over them and then put them under the broiler for a few minutes so the sauce will caramelize and really get tasty!
So, here's my plan:
- Coat each of the ribs with a dry rub. I make my own.
- Put the trivet in the pot with 1 cup of water (broth might be better, but I don't have any right now).
- Put the ribs on the trivet, and pour some barbecue sauce over them. I use the bottled Kraft stuff because we all like the flavor of it.
- Cook under pressure for 20 minutes (split the difference).
- Do a 15 minute natural pressure release, then vent the remaining pressure.
- Check for internal temperature with my instant read thermometer. For pork I look for 160 degrees, but with the 15 minute rest it might be a bit lower, but I'm not taking chances with underdone pork!
6b. If the ribs need more cooking, I'll put them back under pressure for another few minutes followed by a quick release and check again. - Move the ribs to a foil lined baking sheet and slather on the bbq sauce.
- Broil the ribs at 450 degrees in the toaster oven until the sauce on the ribs begins to caramelize and blacken. I actually like the slightly burned bits, but I only want a few spots to start to blacken. I'm not looking to really burn these ribs.
I'll let you know how they come out!
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