
Thai Tom Yum Pork Ribs
- SERVES: 2
- PREP: 8 to 24 hours for marinating, 1 hour to cook
- TOTAL TIME: minimum 9 hours
All the flavor of Tom Yum soup but glazed onto tender, sticky ribs.
Before you say “NOOOO I can’t make this!! I can’t get tom yum seasoning!!”, trust me, you can, and it is SO worth keeping for the rest of time. I usually get mine via Amazon Prime but if you’re anti-that for whatever reason, there are a ton of cool spice places online that you can get it on right now, here on the same Al Gore internet you are currently connected to.
Brine
- 4
cups water
- ¼
cup Tom Yum soup base (I got one on Amazon, a powder base called Cot Lau Thai Lan)
- ¼
cup fish sauce
- ¼
cup sugar
Ribs
- 1
rack of baby back pork ribs (anywhere from 8 to 11 ribs on the rack)
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