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Takes. 20 minutes if you goof off during the process, an hour if you cara- melize the onions
Ingredients
1 slab leftover cooked Last Meal Ribs 1 large onion
9 sandwich pickle slices
2 tablespoons butter
3 quality buns
6 tablespoons of your favorite BBQ sauce
About the ribs. You can use either babybacks or spareribs or St. Louis cut. About the pickles. You can buy your favorite pickles, or better still, make them
yourself. It’s easy.
About the buns. We like a serious bun like a brioche bun or pretzel roll, as in the picture at the top of the page. Click the link for a recipe for making your own brioche burger buns. We even make ours on the grill!
Method
1| Prep. You have a choice. You can chop the onion and serve it raw on the sandwich, or you can cook it. Or both! You can just lightly cook the onion in a pan with in some butter, or grill it, or you can slowly caramelize it. Cara- melizing makes the onion into a sweet relish that can obviate the need for sauce. Click the link for instructions. Meanwhile, take the butter out of the fridge so it can soften and be easier to spread.
2| Slice the rib slab into individual bones, and carefully run a sharp knife along the bones to remove the meat, trying not to hack off any cartilage. Then chop the meat into 1/2-inch chunks. Reheat the meat in a microwave. This will warm it up quickly with minimal moisture loss.
3| Butter and toast. Butter the buns and toast under a hot broiler to add crunch. This is an important step.
4| Assemble. Create the sandwich by placing a heaping scoop of chopped meat on the bottom bun and top with 1 or 2 tablespoons of sauce. Top
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