Easy Oven Baked Country Style Pork Ribs – The Best Recipe

Easy oven baked country style pork ribs are tasty fall apart fork tender alternatives to traditional pork ribs. They’re affordable, easy to cook, and SOOO good! This will quickly become one of your favorite rib recipes!

Country Style Ribs are super easy and the perfect recipe when cold or rainy weather isn’t hospitable to grilling outside on the porch! Serve them with mashed potatoes and homemade gravy or rolls and a salad… You’ll be whipping up this easy recipe, inside or outdoors, all year round!

I’m smothering country style ribs in a homemade rub and smothering them in my favorite barbecue sauce. Their fall-apart tender meat has a great flavor, and it’s very easy to make. Just a few simple ingredients, ten minutes of prep, and after baking you’ll have gorgeous country ribs, meat so tender it easily shreds with just a fork!

Serve these easy oven baked country-style pork ribs with your favorite sides like BBQ Baked Beans, or loaded potato salad, is a perfect dinner for the whole family or for a potluck… These tender boneless pork ribs are the most popular dish at any potluck gathering!

What Are Country Style Pork Ribs?

Country-style pork ribs aren’t actually ribs… Baked to fall apart perfection, these boneless pork ribs are from the shoulder cut of pork and it’s the same meat used for pulled pork! If you were to get these as bone-in “ribs” you’d see the same y-shaped bone you see when cooking bone-in pork butt roast or pork shoulder roast.

Hence, just like a pork butt shoulder roast, country style pork ribs are affordable and usually cost about $2 per pound. (Way more affordable than beef ribs, baby back ribs or spare ribs.) Plus, they are much meatier than real pork ribs, and they don’t have all the yucky cartilage on real ribs… So now you can see how you get more for your buck with country-style pork ribs!

Country style ribs have the same wonderful fat marbling that keeps them nice and moist through the long, slow and low baking process to fall-apart apart ribs! Speaking of the long, slow, and low baking process…

How To Make Boneless Country-Style Pork Ribs In The Oven

For fall-apart tender ribs, country-style ribs MUST cook low and slow for a long time! If you try to speed it up you’ll get chewy pork, Ewe. Good news… The baking time is easy for you as it’s all hands-off! After only 10 minutes of prep time, country style ribs are ready to go in the oven! Your oven does almost all the work, so you can relax!

Oven-Baked Country Style Rib Ingredients

One of the best things about these mouth-watering BBQ ribs is that they are meaty, flavorful, inexpensive, and easy to make!

• 4 pounds of country style pork ribs.
• Dry Rub
• 1 ½-2 cups of your favorite BBQ sauce

1. Preheat oven temperature to 300 degrees.
2. Line a baking dish with foil for easy cleanup!
3. Start to prepare or choose a dry rub.
4. Season ribs generously with the dry rub!

Tools

You’ll need a roasting pan and aluminum foil and a baisting brush!

Use Your Favorite Dry Rub or Mix Your Own In A Small Bowl:

• 2 teaspoons chili powder
• 1 tablespoon packed dark brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon smoked paprika
• 2 teaspoons cumin
• 1 tsp garlic powder
• A teaspoon of onion powder
• 1 tsp of your favorite salt
• 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
• 1 teaspoon black pepper

5- After seasoning, place ribs in a single layer on your foil lined baking dish. (Use a baking dish instead of a tray, because you need a high rim for juices that the meat will release as it bakes.) If using a baking sheet, make sure you’ve got some good side rims to hold juices.

• 6- Cover ribs tightly with foil and bake at 275°F. Set timer for 2 hours cooking time. (Go read a book, watch your favorite show, workout, or relax for a couple hours while your oven is doing the work!
• 7- After baking for 2 hours, uncover the ribs (be careful because the steam will be very hot) DRAIN OFF liquid from baking dish. Beware, the ribs look kinda gross and at this point in the process… Don’t worry, next time they come out of the oven, they’ll be tender and beautiful!
• 8- Using a brush, apply a generous coat of your favorite BBQ sauce over all of the ribs.
• 9- Bake uncovered for another 1 hour.
• 10- Turn oven to the broil setting, broil for 2 minutes to let bbq sauce bubble and lightly brown. KEEP AN EYE ON THEM SO THEY DON’T BURN.
• 11- Brush with a little more sauce.
• 12- Let ribs rest for 5-10 minutes, and enjoy!

What To Serve With Baked Country-Style Ribs

This hearty main dish calls for hearty side dishes! I love to serve country-style ribs with these sides: loaded potato salad, or Mashed potatoes and country-style gravy, baked beans, Pasta Salad, fruit salad, corn-on-the-cob, or thick slices of homemade bread spread with garlic butter garlic, and salt. And a cold glass of lemonade and homemade Chocolate cake make this an unforgettable feast!

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Oven Baked Country-Style Ribs Recipe Notes

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• Making these for a party or large gathering? A good rule of thumb is to make 2 (two) ribs for each person. That is a generous serving, and I think it’s always better to have extras than not enough. If you are making a large batch of country style ribs, prepare them 2 trays at a time. You will need to add fifteen minutes to the first baking time, so 2 hours and 15 minutes, then swap spots (one on top of the other) halfway through both baking times… This way they will cook evenly on both trays.
• Be super careful taking ribs out of the oven the first time! There is a lot of HOT liquid that can splash out of the pan and burn you. Plus the steam is super hot when opening the foil!
• Applying BBQ sauce requires a brush. I love silicone basting brushes because they work awesome, last forever, and can go in the dishwasher without problems.
• You can also make this recipe using a slow cooker too. Just remember to drain off extra liquid after the first 2 hours of cooking, then cover these bad boys with your favorite BBQ sauce and continue cooking on low for another 2 hours. You can easily serve these from your crock pot or slow cooker.

What To Do With Leftovers

Store leftovers in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 1 week. Leftover country style ribs make awesome the next-day for sandwiches! Just put them between bread or on a roll with some mustard, lettuce, or sauerkraut and you’ve got a tasty lunch!

You can also freeze leftovers in an airtight container for up to 3 months! To serve, just thaw in the fridge add bbq sauce on top to prevent drying out, and bake at 275 for 20 minutes!

NUTRITION INFORMATION

Serving size 2 ribs. Calories: 385, Carbohydrates: 24.59g, Protein: 29.27g, Fat: 18.08g, Cholesterol: 109 mg, Sodium: 956.05mg, Potassium: 633.44mg, Fiber: 1.23g, Sugar: 19.44g, Vitamin A: 748.81IU, Iron: 2.18mg

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Are Baked Country Style Pork Ribs Tough?

Country-style ribs can be tough if they aren’t cooked right! If you try to grill them, they’ll be tough. However, if you cook them right, meaning slow and low like this recipe, they will be fall off the bone (or blade) tender and delicious!

These cheap, easy to make and oh so good ribs are an excellent alternative to baby back pork ribs… It could be your new favorite way to eat pork!

Tips

Do not butter or grease your baking dish… These “ribs” have plenty of fat that melts while they cook preventing them from sticking. That fat also makes these tender and delicious!

At the grocery store look for country-style ribs that are evenly sized, so they cook evenly!

Try adding a couple of teaspoons of apple cider vinegar for extra flavor and tenderness!

Let your ribs REST for 10 minutes after removing them from the oven! This allows your meat to reabsorb its juices before serving!

Bone-In or Boneless Country Style Ribs?

You can use either bone in or boneless ribs… Just decrease the cooking time for boneless ribs by 30 minutes!

Food Safety Note From The USDA

Today’s pork can be safely enjoyed when cooked to an internal temperature of 145 °F as measured with a food thermometer before removing meat from the heat source. For safety and quality, allow meat to rest for at least three minutes before carving or consuming. 

Some other foodborne micro-organisms that can be found in pork, as well as other meats and poultry, are Escherichia coli, Salmonella, Staphylococcus aureus, Yersinia enterocolitica and Listeria monocytogenes. People can become infected with these bacteria by consuming raw or undercooked pork, or from the cross-contamination of food contact surfaces, such as countertops, cutting boards, utensils. These bacteria are all destroyed by proper handling and thorough cooking.

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