Pellet smoked baby back ribs
Delicious baby back ribs with an apple juice and garlic paprika dry rub.
Servings 5 people
Cost $8
Ingredients
- 2 racks baby back pork ribs
- 1-2 cups apple juice
- Southern style BBQ sauce
- BBQ dry rub of your choice
Homemade dry rub
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 2 tbsp white sugar
- 1 tbsp black pepper
- 1 tbsp garlic powder
- 1 tbsp paprika
Instructions
Dry rub
- A dry rub gives your meat a nice crust to work with. Though ingredients can be interchangeable, be sure to use some kind of sugar, pepper and paprika to create satisfying taste, texture and color.
- Mix ingredients well and place in a spice shaker.
- Spread rub generously onto the front and back of ribs before first smoke on the grill.
Baby back ribs
- Add your chosen flavor of wood pellets to your smoker and preheat to 225F with the lid closed.
- Remove the membrane on the back side of the ribs with a knife and paper towel.
- Rub generously with dry rub.
- Place the seasoned baby back ribs on your grill and smoke for 2 hours.
- After 2 hours, remove ribs from the smoker and wrap in aluminium foil.
- Generously marinate ribs with apple juice, seal the foil, and return ribs to the grill for another 2 hours.
- Remove ribs and coat them with BBQ sauce, then place back on the grill for 15 mins.
- Keep an eye on the grill during this final stage so the coatings don’t burn.
- Let the ribs rest on the grill for 10 mins, then serve nice and hot.
