Easy grilled dishes done three ways

BT Toronto | posted Wednesday, May 28th, 2014

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Honeybun garlic ribs

Ingredients:

• 1 Rack of Baby Back Pork Ribs
• ½ cup Molasses
• 2 tbsp Worcestershire Sauce
• ½ cup Ketchup
• ½ cup Cola
• ¼ cup Brown sugar
• ¼ cup Apple Cider Vinegar
• 2 tsp  Garlic Butter
• 5 tsp Honey

For Brine:

• 4 tbsp Sea Salt
• 2 tbsp Peppercorns
• 6 Bay Leaves
• 3 tbsp Dried Chives
• 3 tbsp Garlic Powder
• 3 tbsp Onion Powder
• 1 tbsp Paprika

Method:

1. Prepare ribs by cleaning off extra fat and silver skin backing from rack.
2. In a large pot of water, add brine ingredients. Bring to a boil and cook ribs for 40 minutes.
3. To make sauce, add ingredients, one by one to a pot and heat so sugars dissolve and all ingredients are mixed.
4. Removed boiled ribs and sauce them with homemade BBQ sauce. Put ribs in slow-cooker and cook for extended amount of time on low. Sauce ribs while cooking for added flavor.
5. On a hot grill, place slow-cooked and sauced ribs for final grilling. Grill both sides of ribs a few minutes each, adding more homemade BBQ sauce for desired sauciness 

Pork tenderloin

Ingredients:

• 1 Pork Tenderloin
• 1 ½ cup Coconut Milk
• ¼ cup Peanut Butter
• 2 tbsp Fresh Lime Juice
• ¼ cup Soy Sauce
• 4 Cloves Garlic, chopped fine
• 2 Thai Chilli Pepper, seeded and diced
• 2 tbsp Cilantro, chopped
• Salt & Pepper

Method:

1. Clean and prepare tenderloin, removing excess fat.
2. Cut tenderloin into either large cubes (later to be put on skewers) or into large discs for plating)
3. Combine all ingredients in a bowl, add pork tenderloin and chill for 12-24 hours
4. Pre-heat the grill.  Remove tenderloin from marinade.
5. On a medium heat, brush grill with small amount of oil. Grill the pork either on skewers or as pork discs for 7-8 minutes – or until cooked throughout.
6. Serve with grilled asparagus, wrapped with prosciutto

Prosciutto-wrapped asparagus

Ingredients:

• 1 bunch Asparagus
• 300 g Thinly sliced prosciutto
• 1 tbsp Garlic Cream Cheese

Method:

1. Put a small amount of garlic cream cheese on a slice of prosciutto
2. Place three cleaned and trimmed asparagus stalks on the prosciutto
3. Roll and wrap the prosciutto around the asparagus
4. On a medium heat, grill the asparagus for a few minutes each side.

Courtesy Chef Christopher Tan, www.thefoodfella.com