Smoked Rib Tips (BBQ Recipe)

Smoked Chicago Rib Tips: Juicy, Bark-Crusted Bites with Bold BBQ Flavor

Ladies and gentlemen, food lovers and flavor chasers, your fellow flavor nerd is tappin' in with a Chi-Town meets Texas smoke session — Chicago Rib Tips smoked Texas style, baby!

We takin’ those juicy pork rib tips, hittin’ ‘em with a bold BBQ rub of paprika, brown sugar, black pepper, cumin, etc. and lettin’ that low-and-slow smoke do the two-step for about 3 hours 'til they’re tender with a bark that bites back.

Beats and Eats (music to pair with mac and cheese)

Lil Keke’s “Southside” rides shotgun with this one—'cause like them rib tips, it's raw, smooth, and street-certified.

Can’t find tips or don't have time to trim those spare ribs? Pork Riblets will do in a pinch, but tips bring more chew, more edge, more soul. Wrap 'em in butcher paper at the halfway mark for extra tenderness, or hit 'em with your favorite bbq sauce for that sticky-finger finish.

Serve the rib tips recipe with smoky instant pot baked beans, collard greens slaw, or smoked mac and cheese to round out the block party plate.

That rub? Paprika brings the smoke, brown sugar balances the heat, black pepper kicks it up, and cumin drops that deep-down earthy hum that keeps your taste buds bumpin’.

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Smoked Rib Tips

Tender meaty pieces of pork rubbed with spices and slow smoked to moist chewy morsels.

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Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 3 hours hours

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: BBQ

Servings: 4 people

Calories: 334kcal

Author: Marwin Brown

Equipment

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  Smoker

Ingredients

• ▢ 1 pound rib tips
• ▢ 1 tablespoon smoked paprika
• ▢ 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• ▢ 1 tablespoon brown sugar
• ▢ 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• ▢ ½ tablespoon kosher salt
• ▢ ½ tablespoon coarse black pepper
• ▢ ½ teaspoon ground cumin

Instructions

• Mix rub ingredients together in a mixing bowl.
  
• Rub the rib slabs generously with the rub and refrigerate at least 2 hours but preferred overnight.
  
• Smoke ribs between 225-250 degrees F for 3-4 hours.
  
• Optional - Last 30 minuets of cook time baste slabs with bbq sauce
• Allow rib tips to rest 5 minutes. Chop the ribs into smaller pieces.
  
• Serve

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Notes

Smoke the tips intact vs cutting them first. Smoking them whole will preserve their moisture.
To cook them Chicago style increase the temperature to 300 degrees and baste the ribs the last 30 minutes of cook with your favorite bbq sauce.
Whenever I buy slabs of ribs, I carve them and then freeze the tips until I'm ready to cook them.

Nutrition

Calories: 334kcal | Carbohydrates: 5g | Protein: 19g | Fat: 27g | Saturated Fat: 9g | Sodium: 965mg | Potassium: 68mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 3g | Vitamin A: 1049IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 7mg | Iron: 1mg

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