A slow cooker is an ideal tool for preparing delicious meat dishes. Especially the housewives succeed in the pork ribs in the slow cooker. It turns out they are juicy, tasty and not as high in calories as they would if they were fried in a pan in oil. For a Sunday lunch, this is just the perfect choice. You can supplement the meat with vegetable salad or a variety of side dishes, which, by the way, can be cooked right along with the main course.
Classic cooking
Note that properly cooked pork ribs are not only a find for a delicious dinner, they are an ideal dish for spirits, a great snack for a light beer, and a lifesaver when the guests are already on the doorstep.
Product List
It is necessary to prepare in advance:
- 620 g of ribs;
- two onions;
- 2 tbsp. l tomato paste;
- 2 sweet peppers of different colors;
- a large bunch of dill;
- black pepper;
- butter;
- turmeric;
- salt;
- hops-suneli;
- Italian herbs (optional).
Three to four servings are obtained from the proposed amount of ingredients. The total cooking time is 1.2 hours. Your busy time is 20 minutes, the multicooker will do the rest.
Process description
First, prepare the meat. If the ribs were frozen, then it is recommended to defrost them at room temperature. If this is just bought meat, then cut it into small portions. In the multicooker bowl add one tablespoon of oil, on top lay the onions cut in half rings. Bell pepper is peeled, seeds and partitions are removed, and the flesh is cut into a small cube. It remains to put seasonings and spices for the meat, as well as a decent handful of finely chopped dill. Gently mix everything, turn on the "frying" mode. Without closing the lid, prepare the ribs in the multicooker for 12-15 minutes. During this time, you can stir the meat a couple of times.
At the fifteenth minute, add to the ribs half a glass of water and a pinch of salt. Mix. Change the “frying” to “stewing” and forget about the dish for one hour. The Kitchen Assistant will notify you that the ribs are ready. This recipe is perfect if you plan to serve a side dish. The gravy in which the meat was cooked will be a great addition to mashed potatoes, boiled rice or buckwheat. If a vegetable salad is used as a side dish, then we recommend serving ribs cooked in a slow cooker without a large amount of liquid sauce. He is in this case superfluous.
Pork ribs with potatoes in a slow cooker
If you don’t follow the diet, do not count calories, then not treating yourself to delicious ribs with fragrant potatoes is a real crime. Not only is the dish prepared almost without your participation, significantly saving valuable time, it also turns out to be incredibly tasty, satisfying and nutritious.
Will need the ingredients
First prepare the products:
- 650 g of pork ribs;
- bulb;
- 4 medium sized potatoes;
- a tablespoon of tomato paste;
- salt;
- water;
- favorite spices for pork.
How to cook stewed ribs in a slow cooker with potatoes
For starters, as in the previous recipe, we turn to meat. Pork ribs cut in portions are cooked faster, and it’s more convenient to eat them. Some housewives bake or fry the whole ribs, and the finished dish is already cut into portions. This option is acceptable, but not always and not convenient for everyone.
In our recipe, we will cut the ribs before starting cooking. Salt them a little, add fragrant spices. You can rub the ribs with turmeric or curry so that they acquire a delicious orange color. We send the meat to the bowl of the multicooker, where there is already a spoonful of oil.
Onions are cut into large rings, sent to the meat. Peel the potatoes and cut them into long strips. It is important that the potato slices are large enough. This will allow the two main ingredients to cook almost simultaneously. If the straw is too thin, then the potatoes can boil very much, turn into porridge.
When all the ingredients are in the bowl, add half a glass of water, mix, close the lid. Cooking mode - "quenching". The time is usually 1-1.2 hours. Depending on the model of the multicooker.
Ribs with cabbage
If the potato in the form of a side dish for meat is tired or you just wanted to slightly reduce the calorie content of the dish, then try to cook incredibly tasty ribs in a slow cooker with cabbage. Calorie stewed cabbage is not more than 40 kilocalories per 100 g of product. Agree, this is much less than that of potatoes.
What you need for cooking
The ingredients are as follows:
- 720 g pork ribs;
- bulb;
- 420 g of cabbage;
- carrot;
- tomato paste;
- bulb;
- salt;
- water;
- ground pepper;
- fresh greens;
- spices.
How to cook
My pork, cut into portions, as in previous recipes for ribs in a slow cooker. In the "frying" mode, we bring the ribs to a golden state. In the process of frying, we periodically stir the meat, gradually introducing salt, herbs, pepper. When a brown crust begins to form on the pork, the ribs need to be transferred to a plate. Finely chopped cabbage will take their place in the multicooker bowl.
Without changing the regime, add tomato paste, water to the vegetables and mix. We return the fried ribs to the dishes. Again, mix all the ingredients well, close the lid and cook the ribs in a slow cooker for 40 minutes. When serving, decorate the dish with a decent portion of fresh herbs.
Smoked ribs with buckwheat
A classic of the genre is such a dish as smoked ribs in a slow cooker with various side dishes. It can be rice, buckwheat, peas, beans and so on. For example, today we chose buckwheat.
Grocery list
For cooking you will need:
- 480 g of ribs;
- 120 g of onions;
- 220 g buckwheat;
- butter;
- water;
- to taste - spices, salt, dried thyme, ground pepper.
Cooking method
Before cooking, buckwheat should be sorted out, washed well. Onions - large half rings. Cut the ribs into portioned slices. Before sending to the multicooker bowl, it is recommended to rub the meat with salt and dried thyme. Leave the ribs to "rest" for 5-7 minutes.
Pour the oil into the bowl, put the meat slices, add the onion. On the baking program, lightly fry the ingredients. 10 minutes will be enough. Add the cereal, ground pepper, the required amount of water (usually 1/2) and, closing the lid, cook for 40 minutes. The mode is "quenching".
After the signal of the “kitchen assistant” we do not rush to open the lid. Let the slow cooker stand in order to allow the dish to "get". This recipe for pork ribs in a slow cooker is very simple, even an inexperienced housewife will cope with it. The big plus of this kitchen equipment is that it allows you to significantly save time. You just need to lay the necessary products, choose the correct mode and forget about cooking before the multicooker signal.
Cooking tips and features
- For stewing in a slow cooker, it is recommended to choose proportional meat pieces. This means that the amount of fat and meat on the ribs should be approximately the same. If the ribs are low-fat, then the dish will turn out dry and tasteless. If there is a large amount of fat on the ribs, and on the contrary, there is not enough meat, then as a result of cooking you will get stewed bacon. The meat will decrease in size, the fat will melt, and the dish will again be tasteless. In everything, as they say, we need a middle ground.
- For a more tender, juicy and soft dish, it is better to choose young meat. If the fat on the ribs is yellowish, then, most likely, you see the meat of an old pig.
- If the ribs were frozen, then before cooking they are removed from the freezer in advance and thawed at room temperature. No microwave if you don't want the meat to be dry and hard. You can help the process accelerate with warm water, but not microwave waves.
- To make the ribs more juicy, first fry them, and then proceed to stew.
- Meat will be juicy if it has been pickled in advance. For the marinade, you can take any products that are currently in the refrigerator: kefir, wine, honey, mayonnaise, beer, soy sauce and so on. You can add fresh herbs, fragrant dried herbs or finely chopped garlic to the marinade.