Nuri’s Ribs: Grilled Baby Backs with Sweet Soy Glaze

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    2 to 4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Planet Barbecue

By Steven Raichlen

Published 2010

  • About

For every rule, there is an exception. If I had a dollar for every time I have preached never to boil ribs, I’d be floating on a yacht in the Sea of Siam. Yet here I am at a lively restaurant called Naughty Nuri’s Warung in Ubud, Bali, sipping icy martinis with a motley crowd of expats, backpackers, and local yuppies, watching the flames dance at the grill, and I’m about to devour a dish I spent years disparaging: ribs that have been boiled prior to grilling. Of course, they’re glaze