Cherry Cola Glazed Spare Ribs

  4.4 – 32 reviews  • Pork
Level: Easy
Total: 1 hr 50 min
Prep: 5 min
Cook: 1 hr 45 min
Yield: 6 servings
Level: Easy
Total: 1 hr 50 min
Prep: 5 min
Cook: 1 hr 45 min
Yield: 6 servings

Ingredients

  1. 1/3 cup Sandra Lee All-Purpose Rub
  2. 2 tablespoons teriyaki mix (recommended: Kikkoman)
  3. 3 racks pork spare ribs
  4. 1 cup cherry cola
  5. 1 cup BBQ sauce
  6. 1/3 cup cherry preserves
  7. 2 tablespoons teriyaki mix (recommended: Kikkoman)

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  2. In a small bowl, combine All-Purpose Rub with 2 tablespoons teriyaki mix. Sprinkle seasoning over ribs and pat in.
  3. Place ribs in a shallow roasting pan. Tightly cover with foil. Bake in oven for 1 hour.
  4. While ribs are cooking, make glaze by combining glaze ingredients in a saucepan over medium heat. Simmer 10 minutes and remove from heat.
  5. Remove ribs from oven and carefully drain fat from roasting pan. Generously brush with glaze and continue baking ribs, uncovered for 30 to 45 minutes more or until tender, turning and brushing occasionally with glaze. Remove from grill and cut into servings. Serve hot with glaze on the side.
  6. For Outdoor Grill:
  7. Set up grill for indirect cooking over medium heat. (No heat source under meat). Prepare ribs as directed. Place ribs in rib rack over drip pan on hot grill. Add a handful of hickory chips to hot coals or smoke box. Cover grill. Rotate ribs around rack every 30 minutes. After 1 hour, add 10 briquettes to each pile of coals and another handful of soaked hickory chips. Cook 2 to 2 1/2 hours. About 20 minutes before ribs are done, remove ribs from rib rack and lay meat side down on grill. Generously brush with glaze and pile ribs in center of grill over drip pan. Cover and cook 10 minutes. Turn ribs and brush on more glaze and re-pile. Cook an additional 10 minutes.

Reviews

Melissa Day
Ever since I saw these on Sandra’s show, years ago, I have been making them. They are wonderful! Some times I’ll make another rib recipe and my family as well as myself wonder why! This recipe is THAT GOOD!
Denise Suarez
Fabulous !!!
Erin Moore
Excellent
Holly Butler
My 7 year old son does not like my husband’s smoked ribs, but he loved my cherry cola glazed ribs! They are delicious, in a sweet, gooey,yuumy kind of way! I used whatever rub we had on hand, no problem! I’m sure with her specific rub it would be even better.
Kimberly Howard
I made this recipe for my family last night and it was awesome! The sauce was very flavorful. The only problem I had was that I did not know what Sandra Lees All Purpose Rub was, or where I could get it. Technically that really was not a problem at all because I had another rub I used in place of it. Either way, the ribs were tender and flavorful, and the sauce was fantastic. (I also am in the habit of slow cooking my ribs for tenderness, so my ribs were in the oven 3 hours before I began to glaze them. My new “go to” recipe for barbecue sauce! Thanks, Sandra!
Kaitlyn Santiago
This is for dhens97668 and all others who need the recipe for Sandra Lee’s All-Purpose Rub: It is on her recipe for “Southwestern Chicken with Mango-Peach Salsa”. This recipe is also very tasty and I do use the rub for a lot of other things other than chicken, ie. shrimp, lamb, steak, and even on firm tofu as a coating before frying it when it’s used in my family veggie dishes. Hope this helps.
Christian Ryan
Made these over the week-end and they were delish, Family loved them. I used Grill Mates Pork Rub and Kikkomans Teriyaki/Garlic marinate. The Glaze was a hit as well…I have been requested to make these for every family/ friend gathering…Thank you Sandra never disappointing…
Andrea Lyons
Fabulous ribs and easy!!!
James Lawson
might try if i knew what sandra lee seasoning was?
Melissa Diaz
the ribs were good — I used a regular store bought pork rub, and a fried rice seasoning packet – the roasting method left them cooked and tender, but not as tender as a slower cooking method might. The glaze was fantastic though, it’s a quick sauce that I would use on many, many things in the future.

 

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