I seasoned the spare ribs lightly with five spice powder. Made my usual hunka spam. Smoked the ribs at 295F with applewood for 2 hours.
put together my five spice salt (5 TBS salt and 1TBS five spice powder)
and my marinade for the ribs
5 whole star anise (you can use 1 tsp anise seed)
3 TBS sherry
3 TBS soy
1 tsp salt
3 tsp sugar
some scallions
minced fresh ginger ( about 1 TBS)
After placing the mixture in a measuring cup, I added enough water to bring it up to 2 cups.
After the ribs had smoked for 2 hrs I made a foil pouch and placed the ribs meat side down...then covered with the marinade and sealed tight.
Put them back into the Pro..... Added a bowl of rice in chicken stock for my fried rice.
Sprinkled the spam with brown sugar and cayenne then spritzed with whiskey.
Two more hours in the Pro, I checked for pull back on the ribs.
They were moist and tender and soooooo full of goodness. :)
I cut the ribs into pieces and rolled lightly in cornstarch....
then fried quickly until light brown...
I sprinked the fried ribs with my five spice salt and served them with fried rice...
I love em. :)
I should mention the marinade pretty much over-powers any smoked flavor but they are soooo good!
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ok, aside from that looking so good i could start chewing on my laptop screen.. the "no wind" comment has me rather jealous.
pid
I like the post smoke fry - nice technique!
You have a kitchen? I really like the smoke then then fry idea - it never occured to me - as usual.
Haha Pid, Thanks!
I hope the wind dies down for you too. :)
Thank you David!
I love these ribs..the light crunch on the outside and the tender center. I love the five spice salt on a lot of things. :)
lol Larry! I have a kitchen. It just isn't as much fun to use as the outdoor stuff. :)
Thanks!!
Very nice ribs..5 spice is one of my favorites...It is over powering everything LoL but so nice...
hehe, no wind... we just got a burn ban today for Osage County.
Thanks Marc, I agree! :)
It is so powerful...but nice. Thanks for stopping by. :)
lol Phil, have you been getting this wind too? It's amazing.
If it quits blowing I will fall on my face, I've leaned into it for so long. :)
Hope you keep safe and watch for those fires.
Thanks!
What a neat idea for the after fry.
Who would've thunk?
I'm just waiting for it to warm up to bust out the outdoor culinary kitchen.
Wow, we're smoking ribs this weekend. I think I'll save back a few to fry--genius!
No wind here today but it's been 20 mph with 40 mph gusts for 3 days. :O Also no ribs so hook a neighbor up!!!
I love any kind of pork smoked with applewood. Gives it that sweet smokey taste. I can almost imagine how good those were.......Almost. :(
SG
Twelve ribs, the plateshots show just two, so how many did this feed, six?
;-), donald
Thanks Bushman, I'll send some of this warm weather your way!
Thanks Mrs JP, that 5 spice salt adds a lot of flavor to them. :)
Hey SG, glad to hear you're getting some of this wind too. lol
If ya lived closer I would have set you up with some of these ribs. Hope you have a great weekend!
Hi Donald! :)
There were three of us and I was able to hide one rib for my lunch the next day. lol
Thanks for stopping by. :)
Hi Cowgirl, love your blog!
Just wonderin', why do you throw in the spam so often? Why do you like it? I have never tried spam.
Cowgirl, now you're cooking like an island girl. Fried ribs are a fantastic treat. Your ribs look great and the fried rice, which we eat a lot of here on Guam, looks great also. Just the right color. Where'd you learn how to cook fried rice?
Thanks Anonymous! I've never been fond of spam until I tried it smoked. I love it with the cayenne brown sugar and a whiskey spritz. :)
I forgot to mention, it keeps people busy while you get the rest of the meal ready too. :)
Thank you so much Rueben! :)
I love fried rice. I have an old basic recipe that I use and then add whatever I have on hand.
I would love to learn the correct way to make it though.
Hope you post the recipe sometime!
Thanks :)
Basically you got it. Fried rice is something that is cooked with leftover rice and whatever else you have. Your rice looks great. Especially next to those fried ribs.
Just a great meal.
I'll send you some other recipes from Guam, I'm sure you will enjoy.
I started to smoke spam also during long smokes. Everyone loves it (even those that hate spam). It seems our oldest boxer is the biggest fan of it though. Luckily that day i had about 3 pieces.
I love the fry idea. Thanks for the recipes and for the inspiraton.
Thank you Rueben! :) I'm looking forward to learning more about how the people of Guam cook!
Thank you Kej! :) I'm glad to hear you like smoked spam too. Good luck with the fried ribs, if you don't want to cook them outside you can use an oven. (don't tell anyone I said that) :)
blasphemy! Cook them in the oven? Where is the fun in that? That means no beer and scheduled downtime to watch the smoker... ;-p
Hahaha Kej! I'm glad you said that! I like the way you think. :)
Thanks!
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