Tender Oven Ribs

This weekend I traveled home to St. Louis to surprise my grandma for her birthday.  I had a wonderful time relaxing with my family and getting some cooking and crafting done.  While I was home I wanted to make my grandma an awesome dish.  I decided to cook up some St. Louis style ribs. These ribs are super easy to make and got great reviews from the family. They are so tender they just fall off the bone.  Don't worry about putting knives on the table! My mom made us some awesome sides to go with them including cole slaw and bakes zucchini fries. SOOO yummy.

My lovely Grandma

Oven baked ribs

Ingredients:

1 tsp paprika

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp red pepper flakes

1 tbsp onion flakes

1 tbsp garlic powder

1 tbsp black pepper

1 1/2 tbsp brown sugar

2 tbsp salt

2 slabs St. Louis style ribs

1 bottle of your favorite BBQ sauce

Instructions:

1) Remove the membrane from the bone side of each rack of ribs.  This can be done by firmly pulling with your fingers.  It is important to remove this to allow the rub to fully penetrate the meat.

2) Rince each slab in cool water and pat dry.

3) In a small bowl combine salt, pepper, brown sugar, paprika, red pepper flakes, onion flakes, cinnamon, and garlic powder.  Feel free to adjust the amounts to suit your tastes. 

4) Place the ribs in a pan large enough to lay flat.  Make sure the pan has decent sides because grease will build up in the pan as they are cooking.

5) Rub both sides of the ribs thoroughly with the rub.

6) Place the ribs in the pan so that they are meat side down.  Cover the pan with plastic wrap and place it in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours.  

7) After 2+ hours remove the ribs from the fridge and pre-heat the oven to 225 degrees.  Remove the plastic wrap from the ribs and cover the pan with foil.  Place in the oven and cook for 5 hours.

8) Remove the ribs from the oven and very carefully drain the fat from the pan.  Then brush BBQ sauce on the bone side of the ribs.  Once both slabs are covered flip the ribs over gently and cover the meat side with sauce.  

9) Bump the oven temp up to 300 degrees and place the ribs back in the oven for 30 minutes uncovered.

10) Remove from oven and ENJOY!