Slow Cooker Apple BBQ Ribs
on Oct 28, 2015, Updated Jan 30, 2024
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These Slow Cooker Apple BBQ Ribs will make for a great Crock-Pot meal this fall. We added in some apple flavors to our ribs along with some sweet brown sugar flavors to give these ribs a yummy kick.
Slow Cooker Apple BBQ Ribs
My family loves baby back ribs. Their favorite rib recipe happens to be our Slow Cooker Coke Ribs that I make very frequently. I found a great sale a few weeks ago at Kroger on Spare Ribs so I tossed them in my cart. I had to brainstorm a bit as I was wanting to give these spare ribs a fall flare.
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Apple flavors sounded perfect so I decided on making these ribs with apples, a bit of applesauce, and also added in a bit of apple cider vinegar. I really like to make my ribs in the slow cooker now. I find cooking in the Crock-Pot to be so much easier than boiling and broiling both.
I like that I can toss our ribs in the slow cooker and have them ready at dinner time. Since we eat ribs so often, it was great to add some different flavors to these ribs. The sticky glaze that the applesauce mixture created was perfect!
Grab yourself some ribs, apples, applesauce, cider vinegar, brown sugar, onion, and your favorite BBQ sauce. You can have dinner cooking in no time at all. I used a sweet brown sugar BBQ sauce that i found right at my local Kroger and it worked perfect with this recipe.
INGREDIENTS
5 lb Pork Spareribs (2 racks)
1 1/2 cup Applesauce
18 oz BBQ Sauce
1/2 cup Brown Sugar
1/4 cup Apple Cider Vinegar
1 Onion, finely diced
1 Apple, cored and sliced
DIRECTIONS
Cut ribs into portion sized sections (about 3 ribs each)
Place ribs around sides and bottom of crock, meaty side toward toward to crock,
Spread apple slices over ribs.
Combine onion, applesauce, brown sugar, vinegar and 1/2 of BBQ sauce in blender.
Pulse until blended.
Pour sauce over ribs.
Cook on high 5 hours, or on low for 8 hours, until ribs are tender.
Remove from slow cooker and brush with remaining BBQ sauce.
To get more crispy ribs, transfer ribs to foil line baking sheet and broil for several minutes.
Do you have a favorite rib recipe?
Slow Cooker Apple BBQ Ribs
Ingredients
- 5 lb Pork Spareribs, 2 racks
- 1 1/2 cup Applesauce
- 18 oz BBQ Sauce
- 1/2 cup Brown Sugar
- 1/4 cup Apple Cider Vinegar
- 1 Onion, finely diced
- 1 Apple, cored and sliced
Instructions
- Cut ribs into portion sized sections (about 3 ribs each)
- place ribs around sides and bottom of crock, meaty sie toward toward to crock,
- Spread apple slices over ribs.
- Combine onion, applesauce, brown sugar, vinegar and 1/2 of BBQ sauce in blender.
- Pulse until blended.
- Pour sauce over ribs.
- Cook on high 5 hours, or on low for 8 hours, until ribs are tender.
- Remove from slow cooker and brush with remaining BBQ sauce.
- To get more crispy ribs, transfer ribes to foil line baking sheet and broil for several minutes.
Looking for other great slow cooker recipes? Be sure to see some of these other recipes that I have shared…
Enjoyed the apple taste
I found this recipe, and my husband made them. We ALL devoured them…including my 5 year old! We had mashed potatoes and corn bread muffins, and it was a delicious meal to eat after my dental procedure. It was fall apart scrumptious +
Can’t wait to try this recipe. We love to eat ribs.
Can you put these in the oven?
350. For 2 hours, covered with foil. Then put bbq sauce on them and broil for a few minutes. Flip and do the other side. I simmered the sauce on low heat while the ribs cooked.
How do you think these would be with beef ribs? We don’t eat pork.
Jenn,
I love ribs and my slow cooker. These apple bbq ribs sound great and perfect for this year.
Blessings,
Diane