Brown Sugar Rub for Ribs
Brown Sugar Rub for Ribs
This 4-Ingredient Brown Sugar Rub is simple to make, and so delicious you’ll never make ribs or pork again without it!
If you’re looking for a delicious dry rub to take the taste of ribs and pork to the next level of flavour, then you’re in the right place! This Brown Sugar Rub is absolutely the best.
About this Brown Sugar Rub Recipe:
This is a 4 ingredient spice rub made with the most simple ingredients. Ribs with this rub are baked in the oven, on low heat, then finished on the barbecue with BBQ sauce. But this rub is also a great pork rub…I like to apply it to pork roasts before putting them in the oven or smoker. The result is the most flavourful and tender meat ever!
Just 4 ingredients!
Simple and delicious.
This Brown Sugar Rib Rub is so simple to make, and you likely have all of the ingredients in your cupboards right now. This rub takes no time at all to make, and the flavour it adds to pork ribs is amazing! (it’s also really delicious on chicken too!)
Handy tip!
Make a double or even triple batch of this brown sugar rub, then store it in a jar in your spice cabinet for later. All you need is a mason jar and a lid from an old parmesan cheese container (these lids fit mason jars perfectly, making them an ideal shaker). It’s really handy to have this spice mix ready made for when I need it!
Brown Sugar Rub for Ribs
Ingredients
- 2 tsp salt
- 3 tbsp golden brown sugar you can use dark brown sugar too
- 2 – 3 tbsp chili powder
- fresh ground black pepper
- 2 racks of back ribs see above picture
Instructions
Making the Rub:
- In a small bowl, combine the salt, brown sugar, chili powder and fresh ground pepper.
Making the Ribs:
- Preheat your oven to 300 degrees F.
- Lay the ribs out onto a baking sheet lined with aluminum foil.
- Rub all of the rub mixture over the top, meaty part of the rack of ribs.
- Then completely and tightly cover the ribs with another sheet of tin foil.
- Bake for 2 1/2 to 3 hours.
- Once the ribs have baked, slather them in your favourite BBQ sauce, and finish them off on your barbecue at medium to hight heat. Grill them just long enough for the BBQ sauce to caramelize and the ribs to get at great smoky barbecue flavour.
Recipe adapted from Martha Stewart
Great for Father’s Day!
Prepare this rub recipe and package it up in a jar for Dad. Then add some of Dad’s favourite BBQ sauce and a brush for application, throw in some of his favourite beer and you’ve made Dad’s day!
Oh, and just because this is funny…my cat photobombed this shot! Peek-a-boo! LOL!
Have a delicious day!
This is a fantastic idea! Thanks Jo-Anna! I think I’ll do something like this for my hubby and dad 🙂
Thank Elaine! 😉
My hubby would love this, and so would my dad. Yum! Sorry about the rain, hopefully that Summer sunshine will be pouring in soon 🙂
Ribs are the best aren’t they?! Yum! And I hope our summer sun comes soon too!! Realllllly soon!
Such a good idea… I really think I’m going to do this for fathers day-for my padre and for my father-in-law. You totally have me craving ribs now!!!
Thanks Jaclyn! I’m suddenly craving ribs again too…yum!
I will give this rub a try. I ran out of my usual clubhouse seasoning and I found you. I see you enjoy bullseye Guinness. I love bullseye brand BBQ sauce. I was low on BBQ sauce one day so I mixed half Guinness half old west hickory (also bullseye brand) … oh man it was amazing delish!! I have not gone back, I mix a batch every time I BBQ ribs. Have a fab day!
Oh what a great idea to add Guinness…SO good! I hope you enjoy the rub!
Hi! Can I use this in a slow cooker/crock pot? Thanks
Absolutely, I use it all the time in my slow cooker!