Pork ribs ... What could be tastier? In my family they are preferred by any, even more expensive and “refined” types of meat. Ribs in spicy marinade, sweet honey sauce, kebab ribs or stewed with potatoes ... What recipes do we not use to prepare this affordable product. The answer to the question of how to fry ribs, usually depends on the set of ingredients that are available in the refrigerator at a particular time.
If there is nothing but ribs and onions, we make barbecue in a pan. How to cook ribs so that they taste like kebab?
To start, wash the ribs, divide into portions, soak in the marinade. Its composition also depends on the mood, the availability of necessary products. Most of all I like pickling meat in vinegar with onions. However, you can use dry wine, tomatoes, kefir, even beer. The main thing is to add more spices to the liquid so that the meat becomes fragrant, juicy.
After holding the ribs in the marinade for about two hours, take them out, peel them from the onion, fry them in a hot frying pan until crust. Then turn it over, wait again until a crust appears. We put onion in the pan, remaining in the marinade, make minimal heat, simmer. You need to salt the ready-made meat, otherwise it will release the juice into the pan, and itself will remain dry.
Shish kebab is a tasty, but familiar dish. But how to cook ribs to create an unexpected, unbroken taste?
We usually treat guests with ribs in a honey dressing.
First, prepare the marinade. To do this, mix 100 ml of dry wine (white), the same amount of honey melted in steam, add to taste sweet soy sauce, red pepper (ground), paprika (also ground), garlic. You can pour a little water so that the sauce does not turn out to be sugary. Soak the ribs in this composition. After an hour, they can be fried, previously dried with a towel. The pan should be hot, and the ribs must be fried until tender. After that, they are transferred to a deep fryer or a thick-walled pan.
In the oil remaining from frying, fry the garlic until golden, pour in the same marinade from under the meat. Stirring, wait until it becomes thick. Pour the thickened sauce into the ribs, salt, simmer for a quarter of an hour under the lid in the oven. A royal dish is obtained.
Sometimes we buy smoked ribs. They are fragrant, do not require much processing time, and the food from them is very tasty. How to cook smoked ribs? Our children just love to nibble them. Yes, and we loved in childhood. And now we like smoked ribs stewed with potatoes most of all.
To begin with, we cut them into portioned pieces, my. Although they are ready for use, it is not known how they were stored in the store. Fry portioned slices, then fry onions and carrots in the same oil. Put the ribs in a saucepan, chopped large potatoes, add a glass of water, begin to stew. After 20 minutes, spread the fried onions, carrots, add spices, salt, bring under a tightly covered lid until cooked.
Sometimes (very rarely) in minutes of severe fatigue, I ask myself the question: how to cook ribs in order to spend as little effort and time as possible? At such moments, I use the traditional village recipe that I got from my grandmother.
I take a pan with thick walls, spread its bottom with cabbage leaves. They will not allow the meat to burn. I put ribs, onions, finely chopped lard on them, pour half a glass of water, put it in the oven. After an hour I take it out, add potatoes, carrots, parsnips, spices, chopped tomato without skin, salt. If there is not enough liquid, I add half a glass or a glass. And again in the oven for an hour. It turns out a gentle, fragrant dish, which was prepared almost without my participation. It is also good for health, because nothing is fried in it, which means that carcinogens do not form.