Samoan spare ribs
My grandmother (now passed) was from Samoa and each year made this great polynesian rib recipe.
Supposedly she would boil them first to tender them up for an hour or so then marinade them in like a gallon of soy sauce with a teaspoon of brown sugar and maybe a half cup of water. This is how grandpa remembers it too (he was not from there). Then grandpa would finish them on the grill the next day, spooning some marinade over as they cooked.
As I have gotten older, I know a bit more about cooking and this much undiluted soy sauce seems almost guaranteed to fully cure and ruin the ribs in an overnight marinade.
Anyone familiar...can you help me get this recipe right with these basic ingredients?
Recipe supposedly:
Ribs
1 gal soy sauce
Water to dilute (up to one cup?)
Tablespoonish of white sugar
Garlic powder (shifting this to a smashed clove)
Marinade overnight
Grill to temp and color