I had team night at my house. It happens often, but was our first for Shotgun. Knowing I’d have a house full of hungry boys, I tried to think of something hearty and filling. Ribs were on sale, so that decided it for me!
You can do these in the crock pot just as easy. I just wanted to use the dutch oven and cook them outside on the grill to keep my messes down since I was making rolls, too.
What you’ll need:
boneless ribs, salt, pepper, garlic powder if wanted, BBQ sauce
Since I wanted these to taste a little rustic and campfire-y, I started at the grill. You can brown them on your stove top if you’d like. Just brown them. As you can see it was nice and sunny after all our rain, so I went for the good stuff! Besides, I hate washing pans and cleaning up splatters!
I put the ribs on a hot grill and sprinkled them with kosher salt and pepper. I like kosher salt! It has such better flavor!
Put plenty on them. You can add garlic powder, too, but I forgot.
Flip them over and season them on that side, too. I’m not sure if my grill was not hot enough or if I was impatient. You can brown them more than this.
Once their seared, put them in your dutch oven or your crock pot, whichever you prefer.
Stack ’em on in there. Then put the lid on them and set them back on your grill with the temperature turned to low. If you have a thermometer on your grill, I kept the temperature at 300 and cooked them for 3 hours. If you are crock-potting, then turn them on high for 3-4 hours or low for 5-6 depending on your time.
After cooking for 3 hours, drain off the liquid. It took two of us to drain, so there was no picture taking of draining the dutch ovens, but here is the liquid. Now you can save this and freeze it or refrigerate it if you are going to use it soon for soups or gravies.
After the liquid is drained off, then pour your BBQ sauce over the top. You can use your favorite or make a homemade one. (I’ll post one below). Then put the lid on and put it back on to cook for another 30 minutes or until you are ready to eat.
Looking good already, huh? This picture will have to suffice for the final one because once we brought them in and had prayer and lined them up, I forgot to take a picture.
But here is a picture of some really cute boys eating their dinner.
There you have it. Two dutch ovens full of ribs, baked potato, green salad, Herbed Oatmeal Pan Bread and koolaid. It just doesn’t get any better than this!!
Oh yeah, with the team’s 14 + my 8 + the 1 who dropped in= around 23 people. We had just enough left for Mr. Perfect to have a couple of lunches made which left 1-2 ribs. I hope they were all full!