Barbequed Chilli Ribs
I appear to have been on a chilli-kick lately. Could this all have resulted from that one time when, due to a friend’s intolerance for the addictive hot stuff, I was prevented from adding any chilli to our pasta sauce?
This time, I was keen to turn some beef short ribs into sticky, chilli-coated barbequed ribs…but things don’t always turn out the way that I hope. After surfing through a couple of recipes, I couldn’t decide whether it would be better to cook them in the oven or just under the grill. I was going to opt for the grill but these pieces of beef short ribs were quite meaty and thick and I was worried that they would not cook through properly just under the grill. So, what did I do? After marinating the ribs in a mixture of hoisin, soy sauce, chilli bean sauce and some other ingredients that I forget now, I baked them in the oven for ~15 min then under the grill so that the outside would be brown and sitcky-looking. The ribs looked fantastic – you can see for yourself in the photo – but they were hard to cut through and slightly dehydrated. Anyway, not much I could do on the night. We had them with steamed edamame and chilli-fish from Infinity Cafe.
For dessert, Chocolate Ripple cake drizzled with the same Caramel au Beurre Sale as featured here. I first learnt how to make this dessert in primary school from a neighbour and never would have thought before that that there could be a dessert that was so effortless and yet so addictive. I wonder if this would work just as well with gingernut biscuits?
April 24th, 2006 at 7:11 pm
Oh wow.. you’ve made me so hungry!
April 24th, 2006 at 8:28 pm
Yup, that dessert makes me want to forget that I’ve had plenty to eat tonight.
That last one is a particularly delicious shot!
April 25th, 2006 at 12:08 am
Good morning! That is a lovely sight to greet tired eyes first thing in the morning.
Well done, Cin!
April 28th, 2006 at 1:25 pm
Chocolate Ripple Cake…..I’d forgotten that it even existed….will be making one this weekend! Ginger Snaps work well in this dessert and adding some chopped ginger and/or ginger wine gives it added zing. Anna
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