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.
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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Instant Pot BBQ Ribs (with Duo Crisp instructions)
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
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.
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.
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!
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!
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Doug says
I have a duo crisp and followed your recipe to a tee.Worked out great!Thank You
Margaret says
I don't like BBQ sauce so I made these with a dry rub. I pressure cooked first then just sprinkled a dry mix of spices ( cumin, garlic, salt, turmeric, onion) and air fried for 6 then turned and 2 min later I had delicious, moist ribs.