Name: Cheese Baby Back Ribs 치즈등갈비
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 3 h
Total time: 3 h 10 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 1 Rack of baby back ribs (about 3lb.); 7 Cups cold water; 10 Cloves garlic, crushed or 1 bulb of garlic cut into halves; 2 to 3Slices of fresh ginger (Oreo cookie size); 1/2 Yellow or white onion, cut into quarter; 1/2 cup soju, sake(rice wine) or vodka; 1 Tbs. Black pepper corn; 2 Bay leaves; 4 Dried Thai chili, crushed or 1 Tbs. red pepper flakes; 3 Tbs. Soy sauce; 3 Tbs. Sugar; 3 Tbs. Gochujang, Korean red pepper paste; 2 Tbs. Soy sauce; 2 Tbs. Mirin; 3 Tbs. Honey; 3 Tbs. Sambal, chili garlic sauce; 5 Cloves garlic; 2 Tbs. Korean sweet plum sauce, apricot preserve or apple jelly; 1/4 tsp. Black pepper; 2 Cups Mozzarella Cheese; 3 Tbs. Sour cream, creama, heavy cream, cream cheese or milk

Ingredients

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For the Ribs

1 Rack of baby back ribs (about 3lb.)
7 cups cold water
10 Cloves garlic, crushed or 1 bulb of garlic cut into halves
2 to 3Slices of fresh ginger (Oreo cookie size)
1/2 Yellow or white onion, cut into quarter
1/2 cup soju, sake(rice wine) or vodka
1 Tbs. Black pepper corn
2 Bay leaves
4 Dried Thai chili, crushed or 1 Tbs. red pepper flakes
3 Tbs. Soy sauce
3 Tbs. Sugar

For the Sauce

3 Tbs. Gochujang, Korean red pepper paste
2 Tbs. Soy sauce
2 Tbs. Mirin
3 Tbs. Honey
3 Tbs. Sambal, chili garlic sauce
5 Cloves garlic
2 Tbs. Korean sweet plum sauce, apricot preserve or apple jelly
1/4 tsp. Black pepper

For the Cheese Mixture

2 cups Mozzarella Cheese
3 Tbs. Sour cream, creama, heavy cream, cream cheese or milk

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Instructions

Cut baby back ribs into single pieces
In a large pot, combine all ingredients for ribs and stir gently so everything will mix into water. Make sure ribs are covered with seasoned water.
Cover with a lid and bring it to boil over high heat. When it starts boiling reduce heat to medium and cook ribs for 1 hour 30 minutes. Stir once about half way though cooking time so they will cook evenly.
Mean while, let’s make spicy sauce and prepare cheese mixture!
In a blender, food processor or using a hand blender, blend all ingredients for sauce until very smooth. Cover and keep it in a refrigerator until ready to use.
In a mixing bowl, add cheese and cream; mix well, Cover and keep it in a refrigerator until ready to use.
Turn off heat and carefully take ribs out from pot to a plate. Be gentle to handling soft ribs. Place ribs in a refrigerator for 20 minutes so meat will cool and firm up before grill.
Heat your grill over medium heat; and place ribs on grill. (If you can’t grill, you can use broiler or just cook it on a stove. Please see note for the directions of broiler) Keep brushing spicy sauce we made earlier, and flip over as many times as you need to until sauce has only about 1 Tbs. left. It will look shiny and nicely chard. Remove from grill.
In a large cast iron skillet, spread cheese mixture around edge, like a ring. Place grilled ribs in middle carefully. Heat cast iron skillet over medium high heat; when cheese melted completely and you can hear sizzling sound, it’s ready to serve!
Serve immediately and enjoy!

Notes

1. Stove
Stove Heat a large skillet over high heat and add cooled ribs and pour sauce. Cook about 10 minutes over medium-high heat until meat has a nice caramelization and liquid reduced as sticky glaze on ribs.

2. Broil
Prepare a baking sheet with aluminum foil. Heat a broiler and place an oven rack a few inches below heating element. Place cooled ribs on a prepared baking sheet, brush with sauce and broil ribs about 2 minutes. Flip over ribs and brush with more sauce and broil for 2 minutes. Repeat 3 to 4 times or until you are satisfied with the caramelization and chard.

Prep Time: 10 mins
Cook Time: 3 hours