Instant Pot Country Style Ribs – These Instant Pot Country Style Ribs are so tender and flavorful! They start with a simple dry rub, are smothered in bbq sauce, and cooked up in your Instant Pot pressure cooker for a delicious and easy meal!
Yes, you guys! Back in action with the Instant Pot!
After I used it to make the Instant Pot Spaghetti, I couldn’t wait to put more delicious foods up in this bad boy.
We’re also back in action with back to school.
I feel like moms and dads everywhere are torn on whether they’re happy to have their kids head back to class or not.
I’m in the “not” category this year. Summer just went by way too fast!
Can they just go back in October or something? Because, I mean, it IS really warm here still.
It should be illegal to send people back to school when it’s still warm enough out to go swimming.
Right?? Right.
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I decided to go with country style pork ribs because they are so very meaty!
I do like baby back ribs as well, but I’ve definitely bought them, then been disappointed at the measly amount of meat I got out of it.
Using country style ribs ensures that everybody leaves the table satisfied!
Depending on your grocery store, sometimes these ribs are sold bone in, and sometimes bone out. Mine were bone out. But, either one will work just fine!
I love how easy these are and that I can have some tasty BBQ ribs on the table in about an hour.
Yes, I said an hour, but pretty much all of that time is hands off for you because the ribs are cooking to super tender perfection in the Instant Pot!
The dry rub for these babies is made up of spices that you most likely already have at home.
You slather the dry rub on. Get some beef broth in the bottom of your Instant Pot. Put the ribs in and pour on your favorite BBQ sauce. Then, let it do it’s thing!
These boneless pork ribs will melt in your mouth, and become a new family favorite!
~Nichole
Instant Pot Country Style Ribs
Ingredients
- 3 Pounds Country Style Pork Ribs
DRY RUB:
- 1 Tablespoon Brown Sugar
- 1 Teaspoon Salt, Paprika, Garlic Powder, Onion Powder, Pepper, Cumin.
- 1/4 Teaspoon Cayenne Pepper, Optional
- 3/4 Cup Beef Broth, Water can be substituted
- 1/2 Cup BBQ Sauce, Plus more for serving
Instructions
- In a small bowl mix together the dry rub ingredients until well combined. Spread the dry rub evenly on both sides of the ribs and massage into the meat.
- Pour the beef broth into the bottom of your Instant Pot. Add the ribs to the Instant Pot and pour over the BBQ sauce.
- Lock the lid on the pressure cooker. Cook on manual, high pressure, for 45 minutes. After cooking is finished, use the natural release method. This will take about 15-20 minutes.
- Remove ribs and serve immediately with extra BBQ sauce as desired!
Nutrition
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I just made this recipe except the amount of meat I had was ~7 lbs of bone-in country ribs. I doubled the ingredients and stacked my ribs in the Instant Pot and cooked them for 50 min. instead of the 45. (All of this fit just under the 2/3 line in my pot.) The seasoning was a winner as the ribs were delicious and fell apart. My husband, daughter and son-in-law said this should be a regular part of my cooking repertoire.
Thanks for GREAT ribs!!
Nichole, great receipe, the ribs turned out excellent! My ribs partly frozen so I added 15 min and they turned out great! The outsides were just thawed enough to get the rub to stick to them
What better way to break in my new Instant Pot ~ made this today and my husband was very pleased as was I. This will be a recipe to keep. Always looking for new ideas being that I am not a great cook lol but, between my Crock-pot & now my Instant pot I can be 🙂 Thank you
I have 6 lbs of meat…do I double the cooking time??
you dont double the time with instapot. Time always stays the same
Should the Instant Pot be set to “keep warm” for the natural release time, or should that feature be turned off?
I always leave mine on “keep warm” when natural releasing or quick releasing. It shouldn’t affect the release time.
These were incredible!
Can you do these in the crock pot? My boyfriend has lost the plug to the pressure cooker.
My family LOVES these. My 17yo asked for them for her birthday. Great recipe.
From frozen ribs or thawed?
Thawed
My ribs are frozen.. please help me with instructions for frozen ribs. What would be the difference in cook time?
For frozen ribs I cooked 15 min longer and they were falling off the bone!
This was awesome! Thank you! I used Swerve brown sugar replacement and Sugar-Free BBQ sauce and it was a HUGE hit for my entire family.
Made it as is. It was really great but over cooked. I live on Vancouver island so maybe it’s a sea level issue. I’ve only had instant pot for a couple of weeks and have over cooked everything so far 😂. Thank s for the yummy recipe
Just as good as the reviews. Whole family enjoyed these. We got a pack of 2.75lbs for about $3 on sale and I didn’t know how to make them. This recipe was perfect. Super tender and flavorful.
Quick.
Juicy.
Easy to remember.
DELICIOUS!!
My family loves this recipe so much that I try to make it every other week.
If I’m using 1.5lbs of meat, should I reduce cooking time?
Hello, I made this and had about the amount of meat. I still cooked the meat 45 mins and rest about 10, drained the meat and then added more BBQ sauce. It came out perfect.
My family just loves this recipe, so it’s in the rotation in our house. Yesterday, I made some for a friend while giving her an instant pot lesson and her family loved it as well!! She said her family devoured it! I sometimes substitute a pre-made BBQ rub for the seasonings and it still comes out tasty.
Absolutely amazing! I tried this tonight and it was a big hit. Thank you Nichole for sharing this wonderful recipe.