Instant Pot Baby Back Ribs. Cooked in a Instant Pot® with beef broth, these spice-rubbed baby back ribs are finished in the oven for crispy, fall-off-the-bone meat. All Reviews for Instant Pot® Baby Back Ribs. BABY, Get BACK - You asked for it, so you're getting it!
I prefer baby back ribs but you can also use spare ribs.
Your favorite BBQ sauce (We used Sweet Baby Ray's Barbecue Sauce).
How long to cook the baby back ribs in the Instant Pot Electric Pressure Cooker?
You can cook Instant Pot Baby Back Ribs using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Instant Pot Baby Back Ribs
- Prepare 2 of full racks of baby back ribs.
- Prepare of Dry Rub.
- Prepare 1/4 cup of brown sugar.
- You need 2 tablespoon of garlic salt.
- Prepare 2 tablespoon of chili powder.
- It's 1 teaspoon of black pepper.
- You need 1 teaspoon of cayenne pepper (optional).
- It's of Cooking Liquid.
- Prepare 1 cup of beef broth.
- Prepare 12 ounce of beer or root beer.
- You need 2 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar.
- You need 1 teaspoon of liquid smoke (personally I will increase this next time).
- Prepare 1 cup of BBQ sauce.
We had a little fun with some baby back ribs and tested different cooking. Combine the Rub ingredients in a small dish. I've learned the InstantPot will pressure cook meat and very quickly at that. I didn't MAKE it the same way it's written out, however, I COOKED it in the same manner and the ribs did come ouy delicious.
Instant Pot Baby Back Ribs step by step
- Remove membrane from ribs. (I skip this step on the recommendation of 2 butchers who told me I "watch" to many cooking shows, and to leave the membrane on).
- Coat with the dry rub. If you do this early enough, put ribs on plate, cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate. If done spur of moment let rest at least 30 minutes..
- Place trivet in bottom of IP, add liquid ingredients EXCEPT BBQ sauce..
- Stack ribs on the trivet on their side next to one another..
- High pressure cook for 30 minutes. Do a natural release..
- Baste with BBQ sauce and broil for 5-7 minutes. This finishing touch actually makes the ribs in my opinion..
Season ribs with brown sugar mixture, rubbing in thoroughly on both sides. And while you may think that baby back ribs on the grill are best, the fact of the matter is that Instant Pot ribs first cooked in the pressure cooker. No worries, these Instant Pot Baby Back Ribs are ready in under an hour! Start with the best-quality pork baby back ribs you can find/afford. Speaking of easy, I just recently got these baby back ribs delivered straight to my doorstep with ButcherBox and didn't feel like grilling them up for hours, which is why I threw them in the instant pot.