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My mom taught me how to make this easy as 1-2-3-4-5 recipe. I remember her making this when I was a small child, it was my very favorite, and it is good served hot and fresh, or cold the next day. I don't think my mom invented this recipe, as if you google on the internet there are many 1-2-3-4-5 spare ribs recipes, but hers is different than most of the ones I've seen online. We still have an old elementary school cookbook where this was one of the recipes my mom submitted. I don't make this very often, but every time I make it I wonder why I don't make it more. It's so easy that the hardest part is cutting up the ribs. I don't even keep a written copy (other than the old school cookbook) since this is so easy to remember.
I hope one day to pass this recipe on to my own children, as it is fall off the bone delicious!
I hope one day to pass this recipe on to my own children, as it is fall off the bone delicious!
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For this recipe there are 5 ingredients other than pork spare ribs.
In this picture I have about 6 lbs of pork spare ribs, but I only cooked up 3 lbs. This recipe is quite easy to alter, you can make one person's worth or 6, depending on the size of your pot. You can also use baby back ribs, but you can use spare ribs and save yourself some $, since these come out nice and tender, even with the less expensive spare rib cut.
Other than that remember the ingredients in this order, it is also the ratio of the ingredients:
1 Sugar
2 Black Vinegar
3 Xiao Xing Cooking Wine (or other alcohol if you can't find xiao xing cooking wine)
4 Soy Sauce
5 Water
See even in the photo they're in order. I didn't do that on purpose, that's how ingrained this ratio is in my memory!
In this picture I have about 6 lbs of pork spare ribs, but I only cooked up 3 lbs. This recipe is quite easy to alter, you can make one person's worth or 6, depending on the size of your pot. You can also use baby back ribs, but you can use spare ribs and save yourself some $, since these come out nice and tender, even with the less expensive spare rib cut.
Other than that remember the ingredients in this order, it is also the ratio of the ingredients:
1 Sugar
2 Black Vinegar
3 Xiao Xing Cooking Wine (or other alcohol if you can't find xiao xing cooking wine)
4 Soy Sauce
5 Water
See even in the photo they're in order. I didn't do that on purpose, that's how ingrained this ratio is in my memory!
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Thank you for sharing :)
Im made another version tuesday night with the rest of the ribs, with more traditional bbq sauce ingredients (tomato sauce, vinegar, brown sugar, molasses, onion powder, garlic powder, chili powder and beer) and it was also good. I did not stick to the ratio, so basically cooking ribs at a low boil and then reducing to a sauce works great for any tasty sauce! No need for a grill!
Not to mention the ribs look delicious.