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Last week I decided to splurge and get a rack of ribs for date night! My boyfriend had never eaten ribs that weren't cooked in a sweet soy sauce broth or cooked until the meat fell of the bones!! He said that in his hometown, ribs aren't readily available so he never really experienced eating them. I took this wonderful opportunity to let him taste the amazing-ness of Low Carb Ribs and BBQ sauce! Yeah...you heard me. BBQ does not exist here.
I originally wanted a full rack of ribs and asked the grocery store if they had any, but they only had like small parts of ribs that weren't cut so I settled for that. I decided to make it in the slow cooker in the morning because I had stuff to do all day and didn't have time to cook. This homemade BBQ sauce is one of my favourites to make as it's so simple but full of flavour! If you don't feel like making a BBQ sauce, then you should definitely try some dry rub ribs as you only need a few spices and you're ready to go!
These ribs go really well with some keto cheesy biscuits or some low carb biscuits with cheddar and jalapeno as you could even make a rib sandwich with them if you wanted!
I like using crushed tomatoes instead of ketchup to keep it lower carb and use stevia to sweeten it instead of sugar. The liquid smoke and smoked paprika powder make it even more delicious! As if it was smoked for real! Serve these over some creamy keto mashed cauliflower and you are ready to have dinner!
Recipe Card
Low Carb Smoky BBQ Ribs
Ingredients
- 1.1kg rack spare ribs (38 oz)
Sugar-free BBQ Sauce
- ½ cup crushed tomatoes
- 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tbsp smoked paprika
- 1 tbsp liquid smoke
- ½ tsp cayenne pepper
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp black pepper
- 2 cloves garlic
- ¼ tsp stevia powder
Instructions
- Mince the garlic cloves. In a bowl combine the BBQ sauce ingredients and mix well.
- Place the rack of ribs into a slow cooker and pour the BBQ sauce all over.
- Put the slow cooker on low and cook for 8 hours, or on high for 4 hours.
- Once cooked, preheat the oven to 210C/410F. Carefully take out the rack of ribs from the slow cooker (the bones will fall off easily) and place on a baking tray. Spoon half of the BBQ sauce from the slow cooker and pour over the ribs.
- Bake in the oven for an additional 10 minutes to get that crispy flavourful skin.
- Take the remainder of the BBQ sauce and put it in a bowl. You can use it later to dip the ribs in.
- Cut the ribs up and they are ready to serve!!
Notes
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Savanna
Thank you so much for a delicious recipe!!
Larissa
This is now my go to BBQ sauce for everything. Today I'm slow cooking a brisket with it. I leave out the sweetener, i don't think it needs it. Thank you so much for such a fabulous recipe.
Jill Kennington
Fantastic! We didn’t have liquid smoke and I was lazy and didn’t cook in the oven at the end but still every morsel was devoured. YUM!
Hélène Nicole
I said it before, who needs to go out to the restaurant with recipes like this!
Lois Becker
Do you drain the tomatoes?
Mira
No, it's a crushed tomato can.
Deborah Eden
Anogher great recipe from u will def try
I makeribs alll the time i just season generously with salt pepper and smoked paprika cook on low in the oven covered with foil and a smalll amount of water so they dont dry out and then squeeze fresh lemon.
I like the idea of having a more saucy one 🙂
Mira
The sauce was definitely my favourite part, and the tender meat of course!!
Rhonda Lynn
So, what did your boyfriend think?
Mira
Amazing obviously!! He asked me to buy another rack and make more as one rack wasn't enough! But it's too expensive lol it's like 25-30$ for one rack here 🙁