Barbecued Spare Ribs

Name: Barbecued Spare Ribs
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: South Africa
Ingredients: 250 ml (1 cup) tomato ketchup; 80 ml (⅓ cup) lemon juice; 85 g (3 oz) butter; 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar; 1 kg (2 lb 4 oz) baby-back pork ribs, halved horizontally if large; 4 tablespoons brown sugar; 1 onion, minced in a processor or very finely chopped; 2 tablespoons worcestershire sauce; 80 ml (⅓ cup) runny honey

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Falling Cloudberries

By Tessa Kiros

Published 2004

About

These are those wonderful sweet ribs that you find at the steak houses in South Africa. They bring you just a great big rack of spare ribs and perhaps some garlic bread and you eat with your fingers. I love making this type of thing from time to time. These need a bit of marinating beforehand.

Ingredients

85 g (3 oz) butter
1 onion, minced in a processor or very finely chopped

Africa
South Africa
Main course
Gluten-free

Method

Heat the butter in a wide non-stick saucepan and sauté the onion over gentle heat until softened but not browned. Add the rest of the ingredients (except the ribs) and 250 ml (1 cup) of water to the pan an