The Best Instant Pot Keto Ribs Recipe – the easiest, fastest way to get tender, good, melt in your mouth Keto BBQ ribs right from your Instant Pot!

At Avdaye, we add lots of tips in all of our recipes – because we are a home cook without any formal training, and we find we are more confident making dishes when we understand why it works, and what each ingredient means to the flavor of a recipe. Our goal is for even the most beginner home cook to feel empowered in the kitchen.

There is nothing better than good, tender, and flavorful ribs for gameday – they are hearty and filling, and work perfectly for a keto diet – plus they are easy to serve for a crowd!

These amazingly good – and crazy easy – ribs are based off our recipe for the Best Smoked Ribs Ever.

If you don't have an Instant Pot, and don't want to smoke ribs, please check out our Best Ever Baked Ribs – good keto ribs, right from your oven – or our Best Ever Slow Cooker Ribs for melt-in-your-mouth ribs from the slow cooker!

All can be made keto – swap golden monkfruit sweetener for the brown sugar in the rub, and grab a bottle of keto approved BBQ sauce.

And if you're looking for the BEST chicken to go along with these ribs for gameday – get our top-reviewed BBQ Baked Chicken Drumsticks recipe!

Keto Instant Pot Ribs

Ribs are an awesome party food for those following a keto diet – but it is essential to make sure you're using a keto-approved bbq sauce and rub.

We are giving you our best rib rub recipe (from our outrageously good best ever smoked ribs recipe that has had a ton of great reviews) below – but you can use any rib rub you love.

We suggest low-sugar BBQ sauces for ribs – and rounding up some below:

How To Prep Ribs For Instant Pot

Ribs are a cut of meat that need to be trimmed well for the best flavor – and so they aren't chewy and tough.

Ribs come with a silver skin often over the ribs – trimming the most of this tough tendon off the rib will greatly improve the flavor of your oven baked ribs – so don't skip this step.

How To Trim Silver Skin Off Ribs

Run a knife under the silver skin to separate the membrane from the rib meat.
If the silver skin resists in one spot, try another.

Once you have separated enough with a knife, grab silver skin tightly and pull to remove from the ribs.
If silver skin breaks in one spot, loosen it again with a knife to remove it completely.

How To Cook Ribs in Instant Pot

The best instant pot ribs are simple – but there are a couple tips and tricks to make sure you have solid ribs, every time.

Dry Rub

After removing silver skin from your ribs, generously cover with dry rub to help create a “smoky” flavor – right in the IP!
Smoked paprika helps bring out a grilled meat flavor, without the grill.

Use a trivet

Placing the ribs up above the water needed to bring your instant pot to pressure is essential – you're not boiling ribs, you're cooking them!

Finish With Crisp Lid

Finish with a crisping lid for crunchy ribs! For a good, crunchy BBQ sauce bark, use a crisping lid or broil ribs after baking for 5-10 minutes.

To buy your own crisping lid for your instant pot, click here.

The Best Rib Rub Recipe

This rib rub is slightly modified from the one found in our slow cooker ribs baked ribs and smoked ribs – we're replacing the brown sugar with golden monkfruit sweetener.

If you're not watching carbs, swap that out for brown sugar.

Rib Rub Ingredients

Tablespoon of garlic powder
Tablespoon of season salt
Tablespoon of oregano
Tablespoon of cumin
Tablespoon of golden monkfruit sweetener

How Long To Cook Ribs in Instant Pot

To Cook Baby Back Ribs In an Instant Pot, cook for 25 Minutes
To Cook spare ribs in an Instant Pot, cook for 30 Minutes
- For high altitude cooking (we're in Colorado!), cook 5 minutes longer.
Technically, ribs are overcooked when they are “fall off the bone” tender, even though that is popular (we'll admit, we love fall off the bone ribs). To get them extra tender, cook an extra five minutes.

Serve it with

If you're looking for good gameday worthy sides for a keto party, look no further!

We get more questions on what to serve with ribs than any other dish, so we hope these picks help you out!

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The Best Instant Pot Keto Ribs Recipe

Ingredients

1 rack pork ribs
Tablespoon of garlic powder
Tablespoon of season salt
Tablespoon of oregano
Tablespoon of cumin
Tablespoon of golden monkfruit sweetener
1 cup water
1 cup apple juice or apple cider vinegar
2 cups keto bbq sauce

Method

Remove ribs from refrigerator and pat dry. Let come to room temperature for 20-30 minutes.
In a small bowl, combine rub ingredients.
Cover ribs with rub, working into meat with your hands.
Place trivet in instant pot.
Add water and apple cider vinegar or apple juice.
Place ribs in instant pot, add lid, and set to seal.
Cook for 30 minutes and let naturally release.
Remove ribs from Instant Pot and cover with BBQ sauce.
Return ribs to Instant Pot with crisping lid and cook another 5 minutes (NOT AT PRESSURE), or broil in the oven for five minutes.
Optional: cut ribs individually to broil (as pictured) with tons of sauce for a crunchy bark.