Mexican style ribs with Camote.

Saturday I made mexican BBQ ribs and a mexican sweet potato dish called Camote.

Teaser picture!



I started this off by trimming up some spares and making the trimmings into tips for the wife. The tips just got a dusting of Meat Smack rub. The rib portion got rubbed with the wet mecican rub I'm about to show you.



Here's the ingredients I used for the wet rub on the ribs.



This is just enough for one slab of ribs.

1TB ancho powder or 3 ancho chillies
1 Tomato (skinned)
3 chipoltles in adobo sauce
1/4 ts cumin
1TB Mas Guapo
1TB chopped garlic
juice of 1/2 orange
juice of 1/2 lime



I ran all that through the blender and rubbed the ribs down. The left over I simmered on the stove to condence it down into a paste for schmearing later.







Into the MAK at 250° burning a mix of hickory,cherry and maple. These were foiled after an 1 1/2 hours.



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Here the tips are going into foil with a schmear.



Happy Happy!



Here I'm rubbing the what I'll call the paste over the ribs again before going into the foil. I put on a pretty good coating but left just enough to rub them again once out of the foil.







The ribs are going to cook another hour or so and thats just enough time for the camote to cook. This is super simple and compliments the spicy ribs perfectly.

I skinned three sweet potatoes and cubed them up into 1 inch cubes.





Next I buttered a dish and put the cubed sweet potatoes in. I covered the dish and cooked them at 375° for 45 minutes.

While the potatoes are cooking I got the other camote ingredients together.

1 stick of butter
1/4 cup of honey
a few dashes of cinnamon.



Told ya it was super simple!
I melted the butter and honey in the microwave for 30 seconds and gave it a quick stir.
Once the potatoes are close to done I poured the butter, honey and cinnamon over the potatoes and cooked them uncovered for another 10 - 15 minutes. Here they are going back into the oven.



The ribs are getting really close now and here they are coming out of the foil. Whooo they smell good!



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Two words.."OH YEAH"
One more schmearing with the paste I made earlier and the foil juices then back on for ten minutes.





Ribs are done so lets eat!!

The wifes tips are looking good!





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Lets plate up some mexican style ribs and camote.









I added a tortilla to sop up the honey butter from the sweet potatoes..delicious!
A cold XX to wash it down with was the perfect compliment to the meal.
The ribs....tender, spicy but not over the top spicy and the sweetness off the potatoes
went very well with the spicy ribs.

Thanks for looking!

Looks excellent as always! Love the easy way of cooking the sweet potatoes. I think I will have to try that soon. Thanks!!

Chili Head said:

Happy Happy!

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here's my favorite pic. now thats a thing of beauty. excellet rib dude. very nice.

Man that looks GOOD! Killer job dude!

Thanks guys!

The ribs look like Sparky's ribs. Good job!!! I'm not much of a sweet potato fan, but I wouldn't hesitate to eat those. They looked really good. I did have some sweet potato fries recently that were worth ordering again. I must be changing in my old age.

Art