Air Fryer Ribs With Spicy Blackberry Sauce

Air fried ribs with blackberry sauce cut open on a tray.

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Air Fryer Ribs With Spicy Blackberry Sauce

Savoury and subtly fruity.

Prep Time20

Cook Time47

Total Time1 7

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: American

Servings: servings

Calories: 859kcal

Author: Carolyn Hetke

Equipment

Air fryer or oven

Ingredients

Ribs

2 slabs baby back pork ribs about 3 lbs
4 tsps chili powder
4 cloves garlic minced
1 teaspoon salt (if you are conscious of sodium intake reduce salt to ½ teaspoon see Note 2.)

Blackberry Sauce

2 ½ cups blackberries about 12 ounces
½ cup ketchup
½ cup honey
2 Tbsps minced fresh garlic
2 Tbps balsamic vinegar
1 teaspoon hot pepper sauce up to 2 if you like really spicy

Instructions

Ribs

Preheat air fryer to 380°. For regular oven see Note 1 below.
Remove any silver skin from back of rib slabs.
Mix chili powder, garlic and salt together and rub mixture onto the ribs-mostly on the meaty side and ends.
Separate ribs as needed to fit on your air fryer tray(s). Try to keep at least 2 ribs together. Position ribs meaty side up to start.
Air fry 40 minutes, flipping ribs and trays at mid point.
Brush sauce on ribs and air fry at 350° for about 7 minutes, switching trays mid way.

Blackberry Sauce

While ribs are air frying purée all sauce ingredients in a blender. Strain over a sieve into a medium saucepan. You will need to press the mixture in order to make it pass through the sieve. Discard solids from sieve. Heat sauce over medium high heat until reduced to 1 cup. This may take 5-10 minutes depending on the size of your saucepan. Stir frequently during cooking.

Notes

Note 1: To bake in regular oven, preheat oven to 400 degrees. Prepare ribs according to instructions above. Bake rib slabs with the dry rub, meaty side up, on a rimmed baking sheet for 50 minutes. Brush sauce on ribs and bake a further 10 minutes until sauce thickens to a glaze. Cut slabs into 2-rib portions and serve.

Note 2: Reducing salt in the rub to ½ teaspoon reduces overall sodium to 652 mg.

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