Enjoy these tender, smoked pork ribs, rubbed with a hot spice mixture – a wonderful grilled dinner recipe.
Hot and Spicy Ribs
- Prep Time 15 min
- Total 5 hr 15 min
- Servings 6
- Ingredients 9
Ingredients
Ribs
- 4 cups hickory wood chips
- 5 pounds pork spareribs (not cut into 16 serving pieces)
- Barbecue sauce, if desired
Hot And Spicy Rub
- 1 tablespoon garlic powder
- 1 tablespoon paprika
- 2 teaspoons ground red pepper (cayenne)
- 2 teaspoons dried thyme leaves, crumbled
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon pepper
Instructions
-
Step1In large bowl, cover wood chips with water; soak 30 minutes.
-
Step2Drain wood chips. Prepare and heat smoker using wood chips and adding water to water pan following manufacturer’s directions.
-
Step3In small bowl, mix rub ingredients. Cut rack of pork in half to fit on smoker rack if necessary. Rub spice mixture into pork.
-
Step4Place pork on rack in smoker. Cover and smoke 4 hours 30 minutes to 5 hours or until tender and no longer pink next to bones. If smoking stops, add additional wood chips through side door of smoker. Serve pork with barbecue sauce.
Nutrition
580
Calories
45g
Total Fat
43g
Protein
2g
Total Carbohydrate
0g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 580
- Calories from Fat
- 400
- Total Fat
- 45g
- 69%
- Saturated Fat
- 16g
- 82%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 180mg
- 60%
- Sodium
- 530mg
- 22%
- Potassium
- 510mg
- 15%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 2g
- 1%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 0g
- Protein
- 43g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 15%
- 15%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 8%
- 8%
- Iron
- 15%
- 15%
Exchanges:
0 Starch; 0 Fruit; 0 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 3 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
0Tips from the Betty Crocker Kitchens
{{tipItemHeadingFormat.replace('{0}',props.index + 1)}}
© 2025 ®/TM General Mills All Rights Reserved