Easy Slow Cooker Ribs

You don’t need a fancy grill or smoker to make delicious BBQ ribs. If you’re a city dweller like me, with zero outdoor space, you improvise the way you cook meats. This healthy, slow-cooker rib recipe is easy and nutritious. Using pasture-raised pork is important to keep your food toxins too a minimum. Toxins are stored in the animals fat and who wants to give up eating that melt-in-your-mouth fat? Try this rib recipe dry (just sea salt or seasonings) or wet (add your favorite sugar-free BBQ sauce) and enjoy knowing that you stayed clear of rubs with rancid seed oils, hidden sugars and conventionally-raised pork by cooking them at home.

Serves 1-2

Ingredients

• 1/2 rack to 1 rack of pork ribs

• 1/4 c. to 1/2 c. apple cider vinegar

• salt

• pepper (optional)

• garlic powder (optional)

  Directions

• If the silver membrane has not been removed, go ahead and remove it using a butter knife (just slip it under the membrane and pull back with your fingers).

• Pour 1/4 c. apple cider vinegar into slow cooker for 1/2 slab and 1/2 c. for a full slab.

• Season the ribs on both sides.

• Place the ribs into the slow cooker standing upright, using the walls of the slow cooker to hold the ribs up.

• Place cover on slow cooker and set on low for 6 hours.

• When ribs are done cooking, carefully remove so that they don’t fall apart and place them on a cookie sheet lined with silpat or parchment paper.

• If cooking right away, turn the broiler on, or place in the fridge until you want to cook them.

• You can add your BBQ sauce at this point or keep them dry.

• Set under broiler for a few minutes per side- do not walk away and keep an eye on them burning especially if they have sauce on them.

• Cut and serve.