Baby Back Pork Ribs

Name: Baby Back Pork Ribs
Yield: Serves 4-6 as one of 4-5 robata dishes
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 100 ml (scant ½ cup) soy sauce; 2 cloves of garlic, sliced; ½ bunch of spring onions (scallions), chopped into fine rings; 1 tbsp potato flour; 4 tbsp granulated sugar; 2 racks of baby back pork ribs; 8 dried shiitake mushrooms; 10 whole peppercorns; 200 ml (¾ cup) dashi; 2 dried chillies; Sake-Mirin Spray; vegetable oil; 2 tbsp mixed sesame seeds; ½ bunch of spring onions (scallions), chopped into fine rings

Preparation info

Serves
4-6
as one of 4-5 robata dishes

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Robata

By Silla Bjerrum

Published 2018

About

I recommend buying good-quality free-range reared pork for this dish from a good butcher. This recipe is all about tenderizing the meat in advance so it literally falls off the bone.

Ingredients

2 cloves of garlic, sliced
100 ml (scant ½ cup) soy sauce

Asia
Japan
Starter

Method

Preheat the oven to 220°C (425°F/Gas mark 7). First prepare the poaching liquid for the ribs. Place the garlic in a mixing bowl with half the soy sauce, the dried chillies, dashi, peppercorns and shiitake mushrooms. Pour in about 1 litre (4 cups) of boiling water. Gently bring to the b