If you love fall-off-the-bone delicious gluten free ribs, this recipe is a family-pleasing dinner recipe to try! I am talking flavor-popping ribs with a finger-licking homemade sweet and spicy barbecue sauce your family is going to LOVE!
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Raise your hands if you love barbecue ribs!! Our family loves to make ribs. BBQ pork ribs are the perfect meal to make on the grill. I feel like my teens are always hungry and I often have to buy more than one rack of ribs to satisfy their appetite!
Grab a few simple ingredients and fire up your grill! You are sure to love this recipe for BBQ spare ribs on the grill. If you love to grill, try this Grilled Pork Chops recipe too!
Made these for the 4th and Memorial Day……fabulous!!”
Cathy r., Facebook comment
Allergen Information:
These barbecue ribs are gluten-free, dairy-free, oat-free, soy-free, and egg-free. Always double-check the ingredients if you use a bottled store-bought barbecue sauce.
Ways To Cook Ribs:
- Start the ribs in the oven and finish on the grill. This is the quickest cooking method.
- Cook them the whole time on the grill the whole time. You will love the flavor you get cooking these ribs on the grill, but it will take longer.
- Cook them in a smoker. We love our barrel smoker, but it takes many hours.
- Bake the gluten free barbecue ribs in the oven.
Ingredient Notes For Gluten Free Pork Ribs:
For the full list of ingredients and amounts, please go to the recipe card below.
- Ribs – I used bone-in pork ribs for this recipe.
- Strawberry Jam – Any brand is fine.
- Ketchup – You can use any brand of ketchup; check to ensure your ketchup is gluten free.
- Green Chiles – Use mild or medium spice.
- Maple Syrup – This adds a bit of sweetness that really works well in this recipe.
- Molasses – I used blackstrap molasses.
- Garlic – Use minced garlic.
- Spice Rub – The spice rub is below. I like to use either McCormick or Penzeys, as these are gluten free.
Substitutions:
There are a few easy substitutions you can use in this sweet and spicy ribs recipe:
- You can use honey in place of maple syrup.
- If you don’t have ketchup, you can use pizza sauce. Pizza sauce is sweet, similar to ketchup.
- If you do not want these spicy, omit the green chiles.
Are you ready to grill some barbecue gluten free ribs?
Step-By-Step Photos and Directions:
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Step 1: Let’s make the barbecue spice rub! The rub adds flavor to the ribs while they cook and primes the meat for the barbecue sauce. The most important flavors in this rub are salt and paprika.
Spice Rub Recipe:
These spices blend in with the barbecue sauce’s strawberry and green chile flavors, which you will read about shortly! In a small bowl, combine:
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon of cumin
Step 2: Dash outside and preheat the grill to 200º F (or preheat your oven to 300º F if you plan to precook the pork ribs a bit in your oven first.)
Step 3: Spread the rub onto the uncooked ribs, coating both sides. Let the meat sit for 15 minutes.
Step 4: Wrap the pork ribs in tin foil and allow them to cook for 1 hour on the grill. I will turn the ribs over every 20-25 minutes so they cook evenly. Keep the heat low at 200º F.
Step 5: Unwrap the pork ribs and brush both sides with the homemade barbecue sauce. (See the recipe below!) I love using these BBQ Tools, which come with tongs, a marinade brush, and more!
Step 6: Cook without the foil, basting the ribs with barbecue sauce every 20 minutes. Turn the ribs each time you add sauce. Continue to slow grill the ribs.
Step 7: These BBQ gluten free ribs are done when they have an internal temperature of 160-170º F. Use a knife to slice between each rib to cut up the rack of ribs.
Frequently Asked Questions:
Pork ribs can be obtained from three areas of a pig: country-style, back ribs, and spare ribs.
I love back ribs because they tend to be leaner and more tender when cooked.
You can store these ribs in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 3 days or freeze them in a zip-style freezer bag.
More Gluten Free Dinner Recipes:
- Gluten Free Pork Fried Rice
- Easy Gluten Free Ground Pork Pasta Sauce
- Grilled Pork Chops
- Ground Pork Chili
- Boneless Spare Ribs
- Crockpot BBQ Chicken
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Sweet and Spicy Barbecue Grilled Pork Ribs
Ingredients
- 2 pounds bone in pork ribs
- ⅓ cup strawberry jam
- ⅓ cup ketchup
- 1 tablespoon green chiles finely chopped; you pick the spice level
- 3 tablespoon maple syrup
- 1 tablespoon molasses regular or blackstrap
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
- 2 cloves minced garlic
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Instructions
- Preheat the grill to 200º F.
- Place 2 pounds bone in pork ribs on foil and cover with salt and pepper to taste. Allow to sit 5 minutes.
- Wrap the pork ribs in foil and slow cook on the grill for 30 minutes.
- Combine 1/3 cup strawberry jam, 1/3 cup ketchup, 1 tablespoon green chiles, 3 tablespoon maple syrup, 2 cloves minced garlic, 1/8 teaspoon salt, and 1 tablespoon molasses in a saucepan, cover, and simmer on low for 15 minutes. Coat the pork ribs with the sauce when they are almost done cooking!
- Remove the pork ribs from the foil and coat the pork ribs in the homemade barbecue sauce.
- Cook for an additional 15 minutes, turning the ribs over so both sides are cooked with the sauce. Check for an internal temperature of 160-170º F.
Notes
- You can control the heat level by using mild, medium, or hot green chiles. If you do not like spicy, you can omit these.
- Store leftover ribs in an airtight container in the refrigerator.
SPECIAL NOTE
Please know that every gluten free flour blend has a different starch to grain ratio. If you use a blend I didn’t test, my rule of thumb is to add more flour if your dough or batter is wet and add more liquid if the dough or batter is too dry!
Nutrition
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