Ways With Pork and Barbecue Sauce In Your Slow Cooker or Crockpot
Pork chops or ribs and barbecue sauce is just a great combination. Take the work out of these dishes and make them in your slow cooker or crockpot. Come home after a long day to a great tasting meal with very little work. Whether you prefer Pork Chops or Ribs, we have a recipe for you. The ribs recipe is one from my sister that I have used for over thirty years. She put this together one Sunday when she was having my parents, me and my family to her home for dinner after church. We sat down at her kitchen table, wrote down what she had done, tweeked it, and have been making these ribs all these years. We often get requests for this recipe and have shared it with many over the years. I made a family cookbook sixteen years ago and this is one of the recipes everyone asked me to put in it.
MY SISTER'S BARBECUED RIBS
4 lb country-style pork ribs
1 can tomato soup
1/2 cup cider vinegar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tsp celery seed
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp salt
1 tsp chili powder
dash of cayenne pepper
Layer ribs in crockpot or slow cooker.
In a mixing bowl, combine the tomato soup (undiluted), vinegar, brown sugar, soy sauce, celery seed, chili powder, and cayene pepper. Whisk to blend well. Pour mixture over the ribs; cover pot and cook at medium setting for at least 8 hours. Skim the fat from the juices before serving.
BBQ PORK CHOPS
1 tbsp paprika
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp freshly ground black pepper
4 (6-oz each) bone-in center-cut pork loin chops, trimmed
1 tsp olive oil
1 large yellow onion, thinly sliced
1 cup tomato puree
1/4 cup ketchup
2 tbsp honey
1/2 tsp chili powder
Preheat broiler. Spray a cookie sheet that has sides with nonstick cooking spray.
Mix paprika, garlic powder, salt, and pepper in cup. Rub pork chops with the oil then the spice mixture. Place the chops on the prepared cookie sheet and broil 5-inches from the heat until lightly browned on each side.
In a saucepan, cook the onion, tomato puree, ketchup, honey, and chili powder to soften onion and blend flavors. Spread half the sauce in the bottom of a 5 to 6-quarts slow cooker. Place the browned chops over the sauce in the slow cooker. Mix any drippings from the chops into the remaining sauce. Pour sauce over the chops. Cover and cook on low until the chops are fork tender, 3 to 4 hours.
Enjoy!
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