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Crockpot Indonesian-style Country Ribs

A slow‑cooked pork rib dish flavored with sweet soy sauce, pineapple juice, lime, ketchup, ginger, turmeric, and cayenne pepper.

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Crockpot Indonesian-style Country Ribs

Time6-8 hours on low or 3-4 hours on high

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Place ribs in the bottom of the crockpot.

  2. Separate onion into rings and place on top of pork.

Make the sauce and cook

  1. In a small bowl, mix together ketjap manis, pineapple juice, lime juice, ketchup, brown sugar, ginger, turmeric, and cayenne pepper until blended.

  2. Pour mixture over pork and onions.

  3. Cover crockpot and cook on low for 6‑8 hours or on high for 3‑4 hours or until pork is tender and cooked through.

Serve

  1. Serve pork with rice (if desired), garnished with slices of hot chiles.

  2. Serving suggestion: for my dinner, I also took some sliced crimini mushrooms and snow peas (about 2 cups each), and stir‑fried those with some hot chilies until they were partly cooked, then added a ladle of the sauce from the crock and allowed it to thicken onto the veggies until the veggies were crisp‑tender; I served the veggies also with chunks of fresh pineapple on the side.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

482Calories
32 gProtein
15 gFat
58 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 12 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Pineapple1 cup chunks (165g)82
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Turmeric1 tsp ground (3g)9
Cayenne1 tsp (1.8g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Seednot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Sauce + ketchuptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,099 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Pineapple + limetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together469 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Lime + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,878 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Ketchup + sugartop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together260 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Onion + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,633 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Pork country-style spareribs
Slow cooking breaks down connective tissue, making the meat tender and moist.
Ketjap manis
Dark sweet soy sauce adds salty-sweet depth and helps the meat brown and glaze.
Pineapple juice
Adds sweetness and acidity that tenderise the meat and balance the savoury sauce.
Brown sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the sauce caramelise and darken during cooking.
Onion
Softens as it cooks, adding sweetness and aroma that flavour the sauce.

Swap the pineapple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, onion, sauce, lime, tomato, ketchup, sugar):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Mangofits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, onion, sauce, lime, tomato, ketchup, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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