Slow Cooker Crock Pot

Barbecuing meat isn’t just confined to cooking outdoors anymore. These days, you can barbecue indoors as well – just not with an open fire or hearth, that is. You can use your oven or you can use your slow cooker (crock pot) as well. Here’s a delectable, fall-off-the-bone barbecue short ribs in slow cooker recipe without the muss and fuss of open flame or continued basting.

The ingredients for this barbecue short ribs in slow cooker that can serve 6-8 persons:

4 lbs. beef short ribs
12 ounces or 1 ½ cup of your favorite barbecue sauce*
Water (measurement depends on how high the meat fits in your crock pot)

*If you want to make barbecue sauce from scratch, here’s a do-it-yourself mixture that’s ketchup-based. This batch is more than you’ll need to cover the short ribs in slow cooker so the excess can be used as a dipping sauce for when the ribs are done.

2 cups (just about 16 ounces) ketchup
2 tbs. teriyaki sauce (if not available, use soy sauce)
Dash of hot sauce
Salt and pepper, to taste
2 tbs. vinegar (if possible, red wine)
1 tbs. sugar

You can opt to brown the ribs in a pan of hot oil first, if you want to. But in the spirit of the no-muss, no-fuss principle with slow cooking, we’re just going to go ahead and dump the short ribs in slow cooker right off the bat.

Then, pour the barbecue sauce on top of the meat. If you’re using a bottled barbecue sauce, dump it all over the short ribs in slow cooker and add just enough water so that there’s enough liquid in there for it to simmer. There’s no need to cover the meat with water though, just add enough till it’s halfway to a quarter-full.

If you’re making the do-it-yourself sauce, mix all the ingredients together in a bowl first. Then, pour it all over the meat but leave at least a quarter of a cup for dipping later. You shouldn’t need to add water because this sauce is not so thick once you’ve mixed it well. Afterwards, put the lid on and cook the short ribs in slow cooker for 8-10 hours on a low setting.

This recipe of barbecue short ribs in slow cooker is so yummy and the meat will literally fall off the bone — it’s that tender. What’s great about cooking short ribs in slow cooker this way is that you can use any kind of bottled sauce you want as long as you add a bit of water so that it will simmer and stew in the crock pot.

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