Melting ribs with tamarind chipotle sauce

Melting ribs with tamarind chipotle sauce

This Mexican-inspired barbecue sauce gives a new twist to pork ribs

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 4

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

Ready in 2 hours

Method

  1. Heat the oven to 140C/fan 120C/gas 1. Rub the ribs with the chilli powder, 3 tbsp of the brown sugar and season. Put the ribs on 2 baking trays and cook for 2 hours.
  2. In a large dry frying pan, blacken the onion slices, tomatoes (cut-side down) and cloves of unpeeled garlic for about 10 minutes. Peel the garlic and put in a food processor with the onion, tomatoes, tamarind, chipotles, remaining sugar and coriander. Season and blend together until smooth. Heat the barbecue and remove the ribs from the oven. Brush liberally with the sauce and grill for 5 minutes each side.

781 kcalories, protein 60.6g, carbohydrate 47.2g, fat 40.2 g, saturated fat 14.7g, fibre 1.5g, salt 1.11 g

Recipe from olive magazine, August 2007.

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  • 01 February 2011

    paulavery commented on this recipe

    I made this to perk me up during the first couple of weeks in Jan :) although modified the recipe slightly as I'm not really very fond of Adobo sauce. I bought some dried chipotle chillies online and soaked them in hot water for about 20 minutes. I used some of the water I'd soaked them in whilst blending everything together to give it a good consistency. Turned out really good. I got the chipotle from www.capsicana.co.uk

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 4

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

Ready in 2 hours

Ingredients

  • 2½ kg pork spare ribs
  • 2 tbsp mild chilli powder
  • 5 tbsp soft brown sugar
  • 1 medium onion , thickly sliced
  • 3 plum tomatoes , halved
  • 5 garlic cloves
  • 100g tamarind paste
  • 4 tbsp chipotle chillies in adobo sauce (from Sainsbury's Special Selection or buy online from coolchilli.co.uk)
  • a small bunch coriander
  • corn on the cob to serve
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781 kcalories, protein 60.6g, carbohydrate 47.2g, fat 40.2 g, saturated fat 14.7g, fibre 1.5g, salt 1.11 g

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