Chinese Style BBQ ribs

By Janet-2

Ingredients

• Sauce:
• rack of pork spare ribs, trim to St. Louis style ribs
• 1 cup of hoisin sauce
• 1 cup of soy sauce
• 1 cup ketchup
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup sherry
• 2 tbsp. grated fresh ginger
• 6 cloves minced garlic
• 1 tsp. cayenne pepper
• 2 tsp. sesame oil
• Basting sauce:
• 1/2 cup ketchup
• 1/2 cup red currant jelly
• For smoking:
• 8 teabags of Earl Grey tea

Preparation

Step 1

- Prepare ribs: take your paring knife and cut under the membrane in the back and take a paper towel and pull it all off across the ribs.

- Whisk all sauce ingredients together. Take 1/2 cup and reserve. Use the rest to baste the ribs. Put ribs in a baking pan and cover pan with foil and bake in in 350 degree oven for 2-2 1/2 hrs .

- Take the leftover pan liquids and degrease it. Add the degreased liquid to a saucepan and simmer for 5 minutes till it reduces to 1/2 cup. Add the reserved liquid sauce. Add 1/2 cup of ketchup and 1/2 cup red currant jelly and simmer.

- take 8 bags of earl grey tea and moisten with lukewarm water. Take out and put in a foil and enclose it by creating an envelope.

- Heat charcoal on the grill. Put tea packet on grey-ash ready charcoals. Grill for 10 minutes to smoke the grill. Then add ribs and grill for 30 minutes and then glaze it with sauce and cook for an additional 1 hour.

- rest ribs for 10 minutes off the grill and then serve.