Slow Cooker Country Style Ribs with Gravy
Tender meat made more flavor with a simple sauce creates this amazing recipe for Slow Cooker Country Ribs with Gravy.
Serve these fall apart ribs with Instant Mashed Potato Casserole and green beans for a delicious meal.
A Flavorful Slow Cooker Country Style Ribs Recipe
Country Ribs with Gravy is such an easy set it and forget it slow cooker meal. If the ribs cook longer than necessary they will continue to be delicious, tender and super flavorful.
The combination of light and dark meat along with the fat in the country ribs are perfect to cook for several hours on low heat. Add onion soup mix, a can of mushroom gravy and a little wine or water for a memorable meal.
Two of our easy, go-to slow cooker meals are No Peek Pork and Rice and Crock Pot Stew Meat and Mushrooms in Wine Sauce. We combined the flavors and ideas from these favorites to create this recipe.
Some of our family loves these easy BBQ Country Ribs in the slow cooker or these Ribs in the Instant Pot. When we use bbq sauce we prefer to serve with mac and cheese instead of potatoes.
Ingredients Needed:
- Country Ribs – bone-in or boneless both work fine. We usually get whatever is on sale.
- Onion Soup Mix – a packet of dry soup mix.
- Cream of Mushroom Soup – we do like the name brand over the store brand or a homemade version.
- Wine – a sweet wine is our preference, water works very well too!
- Mushrooms – baby Bella or white mushrooms cut into quarters are an optional addition that we love!
If you enjoy this recipe you’ll also enjoy our Round Steak with Gravy.
How to Make Country Style Ribs with Gravy
Add a liner to crock pot or grease crock well.
Mix onion soup mix, cream of mushroom soup and wine OR water.
Pour gravy into the crock and add country style ribs; push down into the mushroom gravy.
Add quartered mushrooms on top.
Cook on high for 4 to 6 hours or on low for 6 to 8 hours
Serve over noodles, rice or mashed potatoes.
Crock Pot Country Style Ribs on High vs. Low Heat
A single layer of country style ribs cooks in a crock pot on low for 6 to 8 hours or on high in 4 to 6 hours. The ribs are done when the meat is fork tender or can be easily cut with a fork.
Packing the crock with more meat will definitely increase cooking time.
Ribs taste best cooked on a low and slow method to ensure a tender meal. The crock pot, on high or low, is a great way to cook cuts of meat that have multiple muscles and make them tender. If country style ribs are cooked too quickly they may dry out and be chewy.
What Cut of Meat is Country Style Ribs
Country style ribs are part pork loin and part pork shoulder. Pork loin is very lean and a lighter colored meat. Pork shoulder is a darker meat that has more intramuscular fat. Fat equals flavor, so people often prefer the taste of darker meat.
Of all the pork ribs country style ribs are my favorite because of the blend of flavors, part lean, yet very tender. Boneless ribs are much easier to eat and far less messy.
Another benefit of country style ribs is that they can often be found on sale for a good price. When I find a good sale I like to stock up and freeze uncooked ribs to have on hand for future meals.
Recipe Tips and Tricks:
- It’s easy to add more meat and mushrooms if we want to have leftovers to eat throughout the week.
- Serve with some long grain and wild rice and a great meal is ready to go with less than 15 minutes of preparation time!
- Sometimes we use red wine, but we typically have sweeter wine on hand and it works well too. Choose a wine that you enjoy as the flavors will be present in the gravy or sauce for this meal.
- Water can always be substituted for wine.
Other Easy Crock Pot Meals:
- Crock Pot Stew Meat and Mushrooms in Wine Sauce
- Farmhouse Crock Pot Spaghetti
- Creamy Chicken Pasta Casserole
- Cube Steak with Gravy
Slow Cooker Country Style Ribs with Gravy
Ingredients
- 1.5 pounds country style pork ribs
- 1/2 cup wine
- 10.5 ounce can cream of mushroom soup
- 1.9 ounce packet onion soup mix
- 6 – 8 ounces fresh mushrooms quartered
Instructions
- Grease crock well or add a non-stick liner.
- Mix wine, mushroom soup and onion soup mix well and spread mixture in an even layer in the crock pot.
- Add country style ribs and push down into mixture.
- Add fresh mushrooms and cover.
- Cook on high for 4 – 6 hours or cook on low for 6 to 8 hours. Pork should be fork tender when done.
Notes
- We prefer a sweet wine, but your favorite will work well too
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Rate This Recipe Pin This RecipeOriginally shared on September 6, 2019 with updates made on August 2, 2024.
We made this over the weekend and it came out great! I added onions and garlic but otherwise made the recipe as written. The pork was so tender and moist and the flavor was awesome.
Did you add water or milk to condensed cream of mushroom soup?
Hey There! I did not add water. Hope you enjoy!
I have been doing something very similar for many years now. My mother made it. I never used the onion soup mix but I use fresh onion and a bay leaf, plus a good shot of worcestershire sauce. For a lower sodium version, use the fresh onion, a lower sodium soup, diluted a little with no salt added broth. I also prefer the bone-in country ribs. It’s really delicious either way! Meat melts in your mouth. Also, this dish is quite economical with meat prices being so high.