The Ultimate Rib Recipe

I think so anyway, certainly for homemade ribs.  It's a recipe that amazingly enough comes from my brother and tweaked a bit.  Incredibly easy, very quick and so tasty.

The sauce did about 10 ribs.

3-4 shallots finely chopped
3-4 cloves garlic finely chopped
1 tsp fennel seeds pounded up
1 good tsp Chinese five spice
100g dark sugar
Soy sauce
Tomato ketchup
Worcestershire sauce
onion salt
garlic salt
black pepper
olive oil.



Coat the ribs in a little oil, out in a baking tray, cover with foil and cook for about 30 mins at 140ish (mine's a fan oven)

Meanwhile sweat off the onions and garlic in some oil, add the fennel seeds, then the five spice powder and the sugar. Let the sugar melt and start bubbling then add about a tablespoon of soy sauce, a tablespoon of ketchup and a splash of worcestershire sauce, some onion and garlic salt and black pepper. Taste and add more soy or ketchup or both.

Pour sauce over the ribs and cook covered with foil for 20 mins, then uncovered for another 20 mins.

The house is filled with the most amazing smell and the ribs come out with a lovely sticky coating, messy but definitely worth grubby fingers.