Spiced marmalade glazed pork ribs with fresh radish salad

Marmalade glazed ribs

This dish is a great sticky winter warmer, now that the BBQ has been cleaned up and stuck back in the garden shed.

Serves: 2
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes

Ingredients

6 tbsp Streamline thick cut orange marmalade
1 star anise
Pinch dried chilli flakes
1 garlic clove, crushed
1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
Pinch of salt
8 pork spare ribs (depending on size)

6 radishes
1 orange
2 tsp olive oil
2 tsp white wine vinegar
1 tsp Dijon mustard
½ bag washed watercress
Salt and black pepper

Preheat the oven to 220C/ 200C fan/ 7 gas.

Method

In a small saucepan, heat the Streamline marmalade, star anise, chilli, garlic and Worcestershire sauce, add a good pinch of salt and stir till everything is warm and combined. Discard the star anise. Put the ribs in a roasting dish and drizzle over the sauce (or use a pastry brush to paint the sauce all over the ribs if grilling on the barbecue).

Bake the ribs for 20 mins, turning and basting several times until the meat is cooked and the sauce is sticky.

While the ribs are cooking, slice the radishes then cut the skin and pith from the orange and slice into thin disks. Whisk together the oil, vinegar and mustard and seasoning. Put all the salad ingredients in a bowl and toss in the dressing. Serve with the sticky ribs.

Bruce McMichael

Food writing, discovering food stories, meeting producers, chefs and food enthusiasts are all part of desire to inspire, inform my readers and fellow food lovers. I am a freelance writer, journalist and published author focusing on the international world of food and drink, culture and travel. In 2019 I graduated from the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, Italy with a Masters in Food Culture, Communication and Marketing. I am now a visiting Professor at the university teaching Food & Drink Writing. Based in London I travel widely, particularly across western Europe. I have chaired many conferences and meetings, spoken at conferences and events and often appear on radio and TV talking most about food, the business of food and being an entrepreneur. In 2017 I won an episode of the ITV (the UK-based national television channel) cooking competition show, 'Gordon Ramsay's Culinary Genius'. I took my children on holiday to Sicily with the prize money. As an experienced farmers' market manager and operator of a small marmalade/ preserves company, I am very familiar with the issues surrounding local food, farming, enterprise and the environment.