Marinated Thai-Style Pork Spareribs

Name: Marinated Thai-Style Pork Spareribs
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 237 milliliters coarsely chopped fresh cilantro including thin stems (and roots, if possible); 2 Tbsps Thai or Vietnamese fish sauce (nam pla or nuoc mam); 1 3-inch piece fresh ginger, sliced; 8 large cloves garlic, peeled; 1 teaspoon fresh coarsely ground black pepper; 1 teaspoon kosher salt; 2 kilograms pork spare ribs, cut by your butcher across the bone into 2- to 3-inch racks, each rack cut between the bones into individual 2- to 3-inch-long riblets; 10 scallions, coarsely chopped; 237 milliliters sliced shallots; 6 Tbsps soy sauce; 2 Tbsps sugar; 4 servings Thai Chile-Herb Dipping Sauce

You can never have too many main course recipes, so give Marinated Thai-Style Pork Spareribs a try. This recipe covers 48% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 4. Watching your figure? This gluten free and dairy free recipe has 924 calories, 92g of protein, and 54g of fat per serving. Head to the store and pick up sugar, thai chile-herb dipping sauce, ginger, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the fresh ginger you could follow this main course with the Fresh Ginger Cookies as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes.

Instructions

Put the shallots, scallions, ginger, garlic, cilantro, soy sauce, fish sauce, salt, pepper, and sugar in the bowl of a food processor. Process to a loose, finely chopped paste, scraping down the sides of the bowl once or twice.

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Fish Sauce

Green Onions

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Cilantro

Shallot

Garlic

Ginger

Pepper

Sugar

Salt

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Bowl

Place pork ribs in a large bowl or a pair of heavy resealable plastic bags. Thoroughly coat the ribs with the marinade, massaging the paste into the flesh for a minute or so. Cover and marinate at room temperature for 2 hours or up to 5 hours in the refrigerator, tossing the ribs once or twice during this time.

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Pork Ribs

Marinade

Ribs

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Ziploc Bags

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Preheat oven to 350°F.

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Spread the ribs out, bone-side down, on two large, parchment-lined baking sheets and bake until ribs are deeply colored and very tender but not yet falling from the bone, about 11/2 hours, occasionally rotating the pans to encourage even cooking.

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Ribs

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Oven

Remove from the oven and serve with small bowls of Thai Chile-Herb Dipping Sauce.

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Dipping Sauce

Thai Chili

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Oven

From Lobel's Meat Bible: All You Need to Know About Meat and Poultry from America's Master Butchers by Stanley, Evan, Mark, and David Lobel, with Mary Goodbody and David Whiteman. Text copyright © 2009 by Morris Lobel & Sons, Inc.; photographs © 2009 by Lucy Schaeffer. Published by Chronicle Books LLC.

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