BBQ Ribs & Warm Sweet Potato Salad
One of the types of cooking that I enjoy most is the "family style" meals where you make big servings of food all at once that can feed a large group of people. More times than not I just do not have the time to cook a healthy and delicious multiple course meal but without the option for fast food you must find a way to make it work. Family style cooking is my solution to this problem. Easy meals that take very little time to prepare and get in the oven (or slow cooker sometimes) and they taste absolutely amazing!
The ribs in this simple meal I describe as bacon ribs. The slow cook time in the oven brings out the amazing flavors and texture that you expect from a high quality pork rib (or beef rib if you prefer). The heavy salting and flash on a high heat BBQ caramelizes the fats on these ribs and gives you a salty, crunchy, bacon-like flavor that does not feel like a dietary restriction! The hearty sweet potato and carrot medley that is baked and basted in the fats from the slow cooked ribs is filling and flavorful, but most importantly, 100% AIP friendly. This is one of my favorite recipes for an easy way to feed a large group of people or when I need to feed a person with a huge appetite and no appreciation for what AIP means. This meal is a success every time.
Prep time
10 minutes
Cooking time
2 hours
Recipe yield
2 to 4 servings
Ingredients needed
1 rack baby back pork ribs
3 large sweet potatoes
3 large carrots
2 or 3 large onions
2 cloves of garlic
2 teaspoons pink salt
Step 1 - Preheat oven to 300 degrees Fahrenheit
Step 2 - Chop all onions, carrots and sweet potatoes into bite sized pieces
Step 3 - Put a layer of chopped onions in a deep baking dish
Step 4 - Salt ribs and add them to the baking dish, membrane side up, and cover with the rest of the onions as well as garlic, carrots and sweet potatoes. Some people prefer to remove the membrane from the ribs but I don't bother
Step 5 - Cover and bake for 2 hours at 300 degrees Fahrenheit
Step 6 - Check ribs after two hours for doneness. The bones should pull away cleanly with a light tug
Step 7 - Remove ribs and let stand for 10 minutes
Step 8 - Stir remaining vegetables and onions together and season to taste with salt
Step 9 - The ribs are fully cooked but five minutes per side on a hot BBQ goes a long way to enhancing the flavor and caramelizing the fat
The ribs do not need long on the BBQ to get the fat to crisp up. If you are feeding someone who does not prefer AIP food then you could easily add flavoring like a BBQ sauce to some of the ribs when you flash them on the BBQ (just be sure to control any cross contamination potential).
Truthfully the ribs do not need BBQ sauce. They will be moist and flavorful from slow cooking them with the onions and veggies. When just seasoned with salt and some high heat on the BBQ these ribs take on a crunchy, salty, bacon-like flavor that pretty much everyone will love.
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