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Here’s a super simple dry rub for a slab of pork ribs. Works great with chicken, too. Mix together the brown sugar, paprika, salt, black pepper, and garlic powder. Rub into pork ribs. For best results, allow ribs to marinate overnight. Grill ribs as desired.

The starting place of great barbecue ribs is the rub. These rib rub recipes give that authentic barbecue flavor while bringing out the most of the ribs. Some of these are spicy hot, some sweet, and some savory. Read through to find the perfect rub for your ribs .

Memphis-Style Rib Rub The Spruce / Claire Cohen. In Memphis, ribs are traditionally served up dry. This doesn’t mean that the meat is tough and dried out, there just isn’t a barbecue sauce. This traditional Memphis barbecue rub recipe is the base of a great rack of pork ribs and one of my most popular rib rubs.

Even though salt is the predominant ingredient in this dry rub for ribs (as it is in most dry rubs), I sometimes refer to this as a brown sugar rib rub, since there鈥檚 quite a bit of that too. The molasses flavor of brown sugar is a nice way to add a touch of sweetness to savory foods, and it鈥檚 a key element in my harissa bbq sauce as well.