Slow Cooker Baby Back Ribs

Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 255 min
Servings: 6
Yield: 6 servings

Description

Slow cooker ribs cooked in a crockpot until tender, then coated with your favorite barbeque sauce for fall off the bone, lip-smacking ribs every time.

Ingredients

3 pounds baby back ribs, trimmed
salt and ground black pepper, to taste
1/2 cup water
1/2 onion, sliced
1 clove garlic, minced
1 (18 ounce) bottle barbeque sauce

Directions

1 Gather all ingredients.
2 Season ribs with salt and pepper.
3 Pour 1/2 cup water into the slow cooker, then add ribs. Scatter onion and garlic over top. Cover and cook on Low for 8 hours or High for 4 hours.
4 When the ribs are almost finished, preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
5 Transfer ribs from the slow cooker to a baking sheet; discard onion and garlic. Coat ribs with barbeque sauce.
6 Bake ribs in the preheated oven until sauce caramelizes and sticks to meat, 10 to 15 minutes.
7 Enjoy! No need to fire up the grill or smoker to enjoy finger-licking good barbecue ribs. This slow cooker ribs recipe will quickly become your favorite set-it-and-forget-it meal. The fall-off-the bone meat is a surefire crowd-pleaser. Once the meat is perfectly tender, the sauce gets brown and bubbly thanks to a quick session in the oven. No one will know you didn't spend the whole day tending to these these delicious ribs.