Chipotle and Beer Short Ribs

📝 Ingredients

• 1.5 kg short ribs (cut thickly)
• Sauce:
• 660 ml beer
• 470 g 1 bottle fruit chutney
• 1 x 400g tin tomato puree
• 125 ml sugar
• 100 g chipotle chillies in adobe sauce (roughly chopped)
• 60 ml Worcester sauce
• 15 ml smoked paprika
• 15 ml white vinegar
• 10 ml salt

👨‍🍳 Instructions

1. 1Boil the ribs in a large pot with salted water (make sure the water covers the ribs) for 40 minutes
2. 2Place all the sauce ingredients in a large pot and stir while bringing to the boil
3. 3Reduce the heat and simmer for 20 minutes, stirring regularly
4. 4Remove the ribs from the water and add to the sauce
5. 5Add a ladle or two of the cooking water if needed to cover the ribs with sauce and boil, half covered with a lid, for another 40 minutes
6. 6Remove the ribs and place in a baking tray
7. 7The sauce should be thick enough to stick to the back of a spoon, if not bring to a boil and reduce until it does
8. 8Once the sauce is thick pour over the ribs in the baking tray
9. 9Preheat the oven to 200 degrees C and roast the ribs for another 20 minutes until caramelised and sticky
10. 10Adapted from Caro de Waal