By Lola Obembe
This past weekend presented another opportunity for catering practicals a la Lola.
I’ve really taken a liking to sweet barbeque pork ribs and I order them whenever I go out to eat in Lagos, if it’s on the menu. This time I decided to experiment with a recipe I found on BBC, because if I can make this delicious recipe myself, I could probably be saving a substantial amount of money…
I’m pleased to announce to you that this first try was a monumental success. Details of Lola’s sweet sticky Pork Ribs are below:
Ingredients:
- Two Cans of Coke (or any other cola)
- One Slab of Pork Ribs
- 2 tablespoons of sweet chili sauce
- 8 tablespoons of ketchup
- 8 tablespoons of brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons of soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon of Japanese seasoning oil
- 3 cups of water
Method:
Step 1: Rinse off the ribs and put them in a pan with the coke and water. Pop them in an oven pre-heated to 160C.
Allow the ribs to cook well until not quite falling off the bone.
I discovered afterwards that you need to slice off the layer of fat before cooking.
Step 2: Mix up all the other ingredients in a pan and simmer for 2 minutes until they bubble up. This recipe was supposed to have Worchester sauce but no thanks to SPAR in Lekki, there isn’t any. The Japanese oil was an improvisation…
Step 3: Bring the ribs out from the oven and pat dry. Baste them with the sauce and pop in the fridge for about an hour. They should come out looking something like this:
Step 4: The fun part! Grill the meat until crispy on the outside and juicy in the middle. Ideally this should be on an open fire…but a wise man once said something about a crayfish and a condition…
Step 5: Eat!
Enjoy!
