These Instant Pot BBQ Ribs are so easy and come with Duo Crisp Instructions.

Pressure cooking the pork ribs first gives you delicious, tender, fall-off-the-bone meat with hardly any effort.

Instant Pot BBQ Ribs with Duo Crisp Air Fryer lid instructions

There is nothing like pressure cooking ingredients to make your life easier.

Then you can finish them off on the grill, oven, air fryer or, if you're super lucky, with the new Instant Pot Duo Crisp + Air Fryer.

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The delicious final result of the crispy Instant Pot Duo Crisp BBQ ribs

Instant Pot BBQ Ribs (with Duo Crisp instructions)

Maria Bravo

Delicious, tender, fall-off-the-bone pork ribs with very little effort

5 from 2 votes

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Course Appetizer, Main Course

Cuisine British

Servings people, cook more if you want more, same timings

Equipment

Instant Pot or Instant Pot Duo Crisp

Ingredients

500 ml water cold
700 g pork ribs you can do more, pressure cooking time will remain the same
BBQ sauce of your choice or any other sauce you fancy

Instructions

Pour 500 ml water (cold) in the inner pot, trivet in place (lower setting if it's the Duo Crisp trivet), place the 700 g pork ribs (or however many you want) on the trivet jenga style so that they can balance on each other.
Make sure the sealing ring is in properly (press down on it following its circumference a few times). Lock the lid in. Steam release handle pointing to Sealing (no need to do anything if you have a self-sealing lid).
Pressure Cook 15 minutes, high pressure, do natural pressure release at the end, they can be on keep warm for a while if you're doing other things.

To glaze:

Duo Crisp / Ninja Foodi: Discard the cooking water. Quickly dry the inner pot and place back on the base. Place ribs in an ovenproof dish (I use an enamel dish) and smother with BBQ sauce of your choice (or sauce of your choice). Swap the Crisp trivet to the higher setting. Place the dish on the trivet. Air Frying lid on, press Grill / Broil (204ºC / 400ºF) and programme 5 minutes. If your air fryer lid or air fryer go higher in temperature do it! Enjoy!
Oven or grill: Place ribs in an ovenproof dish or tray and smother with BBQ sauce of your choice (or sauce of your choice) and pop in a preheated hot oven or grill for 5 minutes. Enjoy!

Notes

*Instant Pot Terminology

Quick pressure release (QPR, also called quick release or QR) means venting the steam as soon as the pressure cooking process finishes, i.e. moving the steam release handle from Sealing to Venting.

Natural pressure release (NPR, also called natural release or NR) means letting the float valve pop back down of its own accord, so basically you don’t need to do anything at the end and can keep your feet up. If it takes over 15 minutes, you're ok to release the rest of the steam (by turning the steam release handle to Venting) that may be left in order to unlock and open the lid.

Sometimes you'll see me talk of a combination of NPR followed by a QPR. For example a recipe may have a 4 minute NPR followed by a QPR. You wait for 4 minutes at the end of the pressure cooking time and then do a QPR by moving the steam release handle from Sealing to Venting.

Keyword BBQ sauce, Instant Pot, Instant Pot Duo Crisp, Pork ribs

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Hold on, I can finish them off in an Instant Pot?

Yes you can, with the Instant Pot Duo Crisp + Air Fryer!

The Crisp comes with two lids:

the usual Instant Pot standard lid (actually self-sealing with pressure release button so quite fancy)
an Air Fryer Lid that also dehydrates!!

You can swap between the lids in no time and you can even lift the Air Fryer Lid to check progress, the cooker will pause and then continue where it left off once you put the lid back on.

Instant Pot Duo Crisp with air fryer lid on - now available in UK and Europe

Super easy to use, the Crisp also has a sous vide setting!

So it pressure cooks, it slow cooks, it steams, it sous vides... it will basically make your life A LOT EASIER and so much less messy.

Seriously, who likes cleaning the oven?

The Crisp is super easy to keep clean. The inner pot, air fryer basket, tray plus trivet (steamer rack) all go in the dishwasher.

The Air Fryer lid just needs a quick wipe.

Want to pressure cook ribs for more than two people?

Add more ribs and keep the timings the same. Just remember not to fill past the ⅔ line of your Instant Pot.

Remember those filling rules.

Want support for your Instant Pot?

Make sure you join my Pressure Cooking UK with Feisty Tapas group.

Want more recipes for your Instant Pot Duo Crisp?

Check out all my recipes for the Instant Pot Duo Crisp. These are the ones that utilise the Air Fryer Lid.

You can cook all my usual Instant Pot recipes too.

Step-by-Step Photos

1.

Pour 500 ml water (cold) in the inner pot, trivet in place (lower setting if it's the Duo Crisp trivet), place the ribs on the trivet jenga style so that they can balance on each other.

Pork ribs ready to pressure cook on the Instant Pot Duo Crisp trivet

2.

Make sure the sealing ring is in properly (press down on it following its circumference a few times). Lock the lid in. Steam release handle pointing to Sealing (no need to do anything if you have a self-sealing lid).

3.

Pressure Cook 15 minutes, high pressure, do natural pressure release at the end, they can be on keep warm for a while if you're doing other things.

4.

Duo Crisp:

Discard the cooking water. Quickly dry the inner pot and place back on the base.

Place ribs in an ovenproof dish (I use an enamel dish) and smother with BBQ sauce (or sauce of your choice).

Swap the Crisp trivet to the higher setting. Place the dish on the trivet.

Air Frying lid on, press Broi / Grill (204ºC) and programme 5 minutes. Enjoy!

Instant Pot BBQ Pork ribs just finished still on trivet in the Instant Pot Duo Crisp inner pot

Oven / grill / air fryer:

Place ribs in an ovenproof dish or tray and smother with BBQ sauce (or sauce of your choice) and pop in a preheated hot oven or grill for 5 minutes. Enjoy!

Of course, you could pop them on the barbecue too!

Once you try the recipe, make sure you come tell me how it turned out!

Instant Pot BBQ Ribs (with Duo Crisp Instructions)

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