Oven-baked Japanese Spare Ribs
These ribs are honestly so delicious, you have to try!
I do love some good old BBQ ribs, but this one just holds a special space in my heart. Every Christmas, my mom would make these amazingly flavorful pork ribs. As a child, I thought “Wow, this is one of the best ribs I’ve ever had. Making this must have been so hard!” My sister and I would literally fight over the last piece and had to do rock, scissors, paper to decide who can have it.
Little did I know, this was such a simple and easy recipe 🙂 All you have to do is to mix the sauce together, marinate the ribs for four hours, and stick them into the oven! Ta-da!
While waiting, you can even sit back and relax, go on a walk, play with your dog, etc.
You don’t even have to care about the weather outside because this is all done in the oven! It’s seriously easy and so delicious. I hope y’all will enjoy them as much as I do 🙂
Oven-Baked Japanese Spare Ribs
Ingredients
- 1 rack pork ribs
- 5 cloves garlic
- 1/2 ginger root (minced ginger or ginger paste would work fine, too!)
- 4 stalks green onion
Sauce
- 3 tbsp sake (white wine as an alternative)
- 3 tbsp mirin (If you don't have mirin at home, just add one more tbsp of sugar!)
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 5 tbsp soy sauce
- 2 tbsp sesame oil
Instructions
- Cut ribs apart in individual pieces (If there's a thin membrane on the back side of your ribs, carefully remove it by sliding a knife under it and peel it off). Set aside.
- In a ziplock bag, mix together the sauce ingredients.
- Chop green onions, slice the ginger, and smash garlic cloves. Add them into the sauce mix.
- Add the ribs into the sauce mix, close the bag, and massage them.
- Put the bag in the fridge and leave it for four hours (I left it overnight and it was delicious! If you want it to be super flavorful, I suggest you marinate them for about 10 hours).
- Preheat the oven at 375F.
- Once preheated, on a baking sheet, line the aluminum foil, and place ribs evenly. Pour some marinade on top.
- Bake them for 15 minutes. Flip them and bake for another 15 minutes. (If you have a lot of time, you could also bake them for 2 hours at 250F and bake them for another 10 minutes at 350F.)