Super easy Slow Cooker Pork Ribs with Spicy Bean Sauce using a mix of ginger, chili, fermented black and soy beans. Delicious with steam rice.
It has been really, really cold here these past two weeks with sub zero temperatures and literally bone chilling wind chills. Thank God, modern homes are equipped with a furnace and fireplace so that we can weather this bitter cold comfortably indoors. I can’t really complain as I am a stay-at-home mom and can limit going outdoors to a minimum at this time. My heart goes out to those who have to work outdoors. Good thing we will have a reprieve this coming weekend where the temperature will rise above zero Fahrenheit, still very cold by most standards but certainly much better than what we are experiencing right now.
If you are a parent working outside the home, a comforting thought is having a hot dish waiting for you and your family when you step in the door. That is where the slow cooker comes in. It is no wonder that slow cooker dishes are so popular at this time of the year. All the ingredients can be placed in the insert the night before and simply popped into the cooker in the morning. It should always be set to cook at low for 6 to 8 hours unless you know you will be home before that.
This Slow Cooker Pork Ribs with Spicy Bean Sauce recipe is one that I have cooked countless times on the stove. I have converted it to work just as well in the slow cooker. I added the potatoes to absorb some of the gravy and to thicken the sauce. It can certainly be omitted if preferred. For minimum prep work, I used the Korean gochujang for the chili paste. I did set the slow cooker to cook on high for 4 hours but you can set it to slow for 6 to 8 hours instead.
- 2¼ lbs (1kg) bone-in pork ribs, cut into smaller pieces
- 3 small potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks
- 1 tbsp salted/fermented black beans, chopped
- 1 tbsp salted/fermented soy beans, chopped
- 2 tbsp ginger, minced
- 2 tsp chili paste
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1 tbsp corn starch
- Place pork ribs and potatoes in slow cooker insert.
- Combine all sauce ingredients with 1 cup (240ml) water in a small bowl. Pour over pork ribs and potatoes.
- Cover and cook on high for 4 hours.
Enjoy…..and have a wonderful day! 😎
Love this recipe! Have to try it before the weather improves!
Thanks Pola! I hope you get to try it soon.
That look’s truly delicious and you are certainly making your slow cooker earn its keep!
Thanks Denise! Yes, I have putting my slow cooker to good use. Find it very comforting to have something ready for dinner come evening and I am busy with other things. 🙂
Hi Biren,
These look wonderful, but I am wondering what makes the gravy? There doesn’t appear to be any liquid in the sauce ingredients. Am I missing something?
Please add 1 cup (240ml) water to the sauce ingredients. The pork ribs will also release a little more liquid to make up the sauce.
Now that’s a spectacular feast. 🙂
Thanks Ramona! 🙂
I bet the meat just falls right off the bone. These look so good, tender and delicious! What a great meal to come home to!
Thanks MJ! The meat does fall off the bones and it was so much easier to just place everything in the slow cooker amd press a few buttons. 🙂
Wow, this looks delicious. It has one of my favourite seasoning ingredients – black beans. For some strange reason, I have never cooked pork with black beans. Your combination of fermented black beans and soy beans looks really tasty. I will try out this recipe very soon with a pressure cooker instead as I do not yet own a slow cooker. Have a nice day, Biren!
You should give it a try. Black beans are great with pork but I prefer a mix of black and soy beans. It should work in the pressure cooker. Just adjust the time.
I found this recipe through Foodgawker; it looks amazing and perfect for the winter!
Thanks for visiting, Diana! This is one of my favorite ways of cooking pork ribs. I normally cook it on the stove but the slow cooker works great too for this recipe.
Hi Biren!
This looks delicious plus quick & easy too. Slow cookers are heaven sent for a confused cook like me especially on busy weekends.
Btw for over more than a month I have been unable to post comments here as there was never a CAPTCHA code below so I was stuck but suddenly I see one today so I’m going to send this now and wish you and your family a very belated Happy New Year 2013 Biren. Its been a revealing year so far for me having discovered great food blogs of your’s and Denise’s.
I use my pressure cooker more than my slow cooker but I am slowly warming up to it. Sorry to hear my captcha has been misbehaving but glad to know it came to its senses. Thank you for the kind words and also the well wishes. I hope you are off to a great start for 2013. 🙂
I haven’t been using my slow cooker for a while now and I might start getting busy with all the ideas you have been posting cooking with the slow cooker 🙂
It’s still very cold here in Belgium. It was snowing today and again tomorrow. Really chilly at nights, hence, this dish is a saviour. Ha ha ha..