Barbecued Country-Style Pork Ribs

Preparation info
  • Makes

    6 to 8

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Glory of Southern Cooking

By James Villas

Published 2007

  • About

If the high ratio of fat to lean meat is what makes baby back pork ribs so ideal for the barbecue grill, lean, meaty country-style ribs, cut from the shoulder end of the pork loin, are the perfect candidate for slow parboiling, before being finished in the oven with a robust barbecue sauce to give them plenty of character. Beautiful as these ribs might look in the market, be warned that if you simply plop them on a hot grill and baste them with sauce, not only will the meat most likely be t