Slow Cooker Sriracha Cranberry Baby Back Ribs are some pretty major comfort food!
My family and I experienced an 8-week driving trip around the USA a few years back, and we drove endlessly across Texas until we were satisfied that we had found a proper place to eat BBQ ribs. Have you ever driven across Texas?? Yeah, it’s quite big. It goes on forever. But those ribs were worth the drive. My son Brooks (now an adult) goes absolutely nuts for ribs. He actually lives in Texas now, so he’s lucky to have access to those wonderful Texas BBQ ribs all over the place! When he still lived at home, I created this recipe for slow cooker sriracha cranberry baby back ribs, and he loved those too.
Have you seen Sriracha ketchup? That’s the one ingredient you need for this recipe that you might not be familiar with! Heinz makes it, and so does Huy Fong Foods. You should be able to find it easy enough (check Walmart for sure). If you can’t find it, I did find a recipe for it >> Homemade Sriracha Ketchup.
How to make Slow Cooker Sriracha Cranberry Baby Back Ribs:
Set the ribs into the slow cooker. Cook on high heat for 3½ hours.
Once they are done slow cooking, they’ll be just tender enough to pull off the bone easily enough (but they won’t fall off the bone, which can be pesky). The ribs are brushed with additional Sriracha- Cranberry sauce and placed until the broiler until bubbly and hot.
At this point, they are ready to eat immediately. And you should do so!
My family does love this different kind of take on ribs. The Sriracha ketchup has just enough spice to make it interesting (but not so much that it scares the kids away), and the addition of cranberry sauce makes them a little bit sweet too. Enjoy!
The Best Slow Cooker Recipes:
- Crockpot Cranberry Pot Roast
- Slow Cooker Paella
- Slow Cooker Cajun Chicken Alfredo
- Crockpot Apple Butter
- Slow Cooker Beef Burgundy
Slow Cooker Sriracha Cranberry Baby Back Ribs
Recipe Details
Ingredients
- 2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 2 tablespoons garlic powder
- 1½ tablespoons smoked paprika
- One 14 ounce bottle Sriracha ketchup
- One 12-ounce can jellied cranberry sauce
- 4 pounds baby back ribs
- 1 cup water
Instructions
- In a small bowl, mix together the paprika, garlic powder, salt and pepper and set aside.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the Heinz® Tomato Ketchup Blended with Sriracha Flavor and cranberry sauce until smooth. Remove 1 cup of the sauce and set it aside.
- Remove the ribs from the package and pat dry, and set them meaty side up on a cutting board. Cut the ribs into 3 to 4 rib sections. Sprinkle the dry spice mixture onto the meaty side of the ribs and press to adhere to the meat.
- Pour the water into the bottom of the slow cooker.
- Spread the sauce generously onto both sides of the ribs. Set the ribs into the slow cooker. Cook on high heat for 3½ hours.
- Remove the ribs to a baking sheet (meaty side up). Preheat your oven broiler. Brush the remaining 1 cup of sauce onto the meaty side of the ribs. Broil for 3 to 5 minutes, or until the sauce is bubbling. Serve immediately.
Notes
- Sriracha ketchup is made by Heinz (found in the condiment aisle) and Huy Fong Foods (Asian products).
These look delicious!
Drooling!!! Yummo!
My first reaction was WHAT?! Heinz has a sriracha ketchup out?! As a Pittsburgh native, Heinz is the best ketchup brand ever. Even in Ireland, we ate Heinz (Irish ketchup tasted….different). Can’t wait to these the new ketchup and make these ribs!
I cannot wait to try these ribs. I’m a serious carnivore. Can’t get enough ribs on weekends.
I also cannot wait to try this sriracha. We have a Heinz factory about 20 minutes from our house. Leamington Ontario is known as the Tomato capital of Canada. We used to go in there to shop at the factory when my hubby did a 3 month apprentice there. He got to fix the huge boilers in the factory as part of his training for his engineer license. We are so loyal to Heinz having grown up so close to where it was made. You would be kicked out of our town if you put anything else on the table. Ha.
Loooove the sweet and spicy combo! And I must find this ketchup! I love to Sriracha ALL THE THINGS!
Love this, Lori. My family would be all over these baby back ribs!
My husband will LOVE these! Pinned!
Whoa!!! That ketchup! And these ribs!!! They look amazing! I make ribs the same way – slow cooker + broiler is the way to go.
A road trip aimed at finding the best BBQ around sounds pretty good! I’ve never been to Texas at all and I’m really wanting to go! These look positively finger licking good!
I Love this recipe.
Oh my gosh, girl! Those look finger-lickin-good! I haven’t seen this Sriracha Ketchup yet. I’m gonna have to go hunt it down!
The cranberry-sriracha flavors here sound delicious, and I had no idea that Heinz made a sriracha ketchup! It’s nice to know that now I don’t have to make my own. 🙂
Oh goodness, yes. YESSSS!
I I have to find the sriracha ketchup and make these ribs!! My Hubby will love them!
Whoa, so spicy, so scrumptious! I need to find some Heinz Sriracha ASAP!
Can you make your own sriracha ketchup? What would be the proportions?
no idea, but this product is available in stores now!
My family loves Sriracha everything and considering ketchup is pretty much it’s own food group, I will have to give this a try. Ribs are always a huge hit.
Girl I think you done did it again!!!!!!!!!!! Can’t wait to try this recipe!
Look and sound really good. Thank you.
Lori, haha, I was born and raised in Texas so know how big the state is! and I think we drove across once! Wow, can’t wait to try Heinz Sriracha Ketchup!! I bet it’s delicious! And your baby back ribs look amazing! love that you made them in the slow cooker but then finished them in the broiler. Brilliant. Thank you so much for the link love!