A Honey Baked Ham recipe made at domicile for a fraction of the toll you lot’d pay at a shop with a season that’s simply equally delicious! The salty, hickory smoke flavor of the ham is perfectly balanced alongside a sweet as well as glutinous honey too dark-brown saccharide glaze, which besides has delicious hints of warm spices to compliment it.
Honey Baked Ham Recipe
A get-to method for spiral sliced ham. In the by I’ve hated how I’d e'er ended up with close to dry out slices, merely not hither.
I similar Cook’sec Illustrated’sec method for spiral sliced ham and then I used the same method here together with just added dissimilar glaze rather than the orangish maple one they used.
So many ham recipes (at the same weight) are cooked at 375 degrees for upwards to three hours merely why? The ham is already fully cooked, it simply needs to live warmed through for serving.
Here the ham is get-go brought upwardly to room temperature inward warm water then it heats more evenly inward the oven. From in that location it’sec wrapped in an oven purse for faster cooking, and moister finish effect.
And and so lastly at the cease it’s unwrapped as well as coated with the glaze as well as heated at a higher temperature to assistance brownish and caramelize it a flake.
It’second the perfect protein for a vacation feast!
Homemade Honey Baked Ham Recipe Ingredients
- Fully cooked spiral sliced ham
- Unsalted butter
- Honey
- Light brownish sugar
- Dijon mustard
- Freshly ground black pepper
- Ground cinnamon
- Ground ginger
- Ground cloves
- Fresh orangish zest (optional)
- And y'all’ll also require ane oven purse
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How to Make Honey Baked Ham
- Let covered ham residuum in warm H2O for ninety minutes, changing H2O halfway through.
- Preheat oven to 250 degrees. Unwrap ham so transfer to oven pocketbook.
- Bake ham in roasting pan inwards oven until centre registers 100 degrees on an second read thermometer, near 1 – i 1/ii hours (virtually 10 minutes per pound).
- Meanwhile make glaze too permit cool slightly.
- Remove ham from oven. Increase oven temperature to 375 degrees. Cut oven purse together with curl downward to expose ham. Brush all over amongst i/two of the glaze.
- Bake inward oven five minutes so withdraw in addition to brush amongst remaining glaze. Bake 10 minutes longer. Remove from oven, tent amongst foil as well as allow residuum x minutes earlier carving together with serving.
The Perfect Holiday Ham
It’s such a delicious holiday ham, trust me! Chances are everyone volition be heading dorsum for a moment slice, in addition to luckily there’sec plenty.
If you don’t similar a hint of orange then I do propose omitting the orangish zest because it does add a noticeable orangish goose egg, other than that though I definitely recommend leaving everything else the same.
What If I Don’t Own a Roasting Pan?
And if y'all don’t own a roasting pan (I know they are such a hurting to store) y'all could only function i of the disposable ones the grocery stores sell this time of yr. They are very flimsy though and so transfer carefully.
It may be tempting to but use a large pot just I wouldn’t recommend it because the ham won’t live able to brownish rattling well at the end.
What Should I Serve alongside This Ham?
- Duchess Potatoes
- Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes
- White Cheddar Cauliflower Gratin
- Rosemary Dinner Rolls (or my all fourth dimension favorite rolls)
- Lemon Butter Green Beans alongside Cranberries Walnuts together with Feta
- Winter Fruit Salad
- Christmas Punch
And then why not finish amongst Vanilla Bean Cheesecake or Peppermint Bark Cheesecake?
Honey Baked Ham
Ingredients
- i (8 - x lb) fully cooked spiral sliced ham*
- 2 Tbsp unsalted butter
- ane/two cup beloved
- 1/two loving cup packed lite brownish sugar
- i Tbsp dijon mustard
- three/iv tsp freshly ground black pepper
- one/four tsp ground cinnamon
- one/4 tsp ground ginger
- 1/eight tsp ground cloves
- ane/2 tsp fresh orange zest (optional)
- one oven handbag
Instructions
- Leave ham'second plastic or foil roofing intact together with home ham inwards a large container (or a make clean sink that plugs upwardly good) as well as embrace amongst hot tap water. Let balance 45 minutes.
- Drain H2O then embrace alongside hot tap water once again together with allow rest 45 minutes longer. Near the terminate adapt oven rack to lowest place together with preheat oven to 250 degrees.
- Unwrap ham and take plastic disk below ham bone. Place ham inward oven purse together with wind handbag then it fits snugly about ham. Tie bag in addition to cut away excess plastic on peak. Cut 4 small-scale slits inwards top of bag.
- Set ham cutting-side down inwards a large roasting pan together with bake in preheated oven until center registers 100 degrees on an second read thermometer, nigh i - one ane/ii hours (nigh x minutes per pound).
- Near the finish of baking, melt butter inwards a modest saucepan over medium oestrus. Add in chocolate-brown carbohydrate, honey, mustard, pepper, cinnamon, ginger together with cloves as well as cook, whisking constantly, only until carbohydrate dissolves, about two - iii minutes. Stir inwards orangish zest too let cool only until it's well-nigh the consistency of dearest, nigh x minutes (when prepare to glaze ham rewarm glaze as needed if it has thickened likewise much).
- Remove ham from oven. Increase oven temperature to 375 degrees. Cut oven purse and coil downwardly to discover ham. Brush all over with ane/two of the glaze. Bake inward oven 5 minutes so take as well as brush amongst remaining glaze. Bake ten minutes longer. Remove from oven, tent with foil in addition to let residue 10 minutes before carving in addition to serving.
- Recipe origin: cooking method adapted from Cooks Illustrated
Notes
Recipe originally published titled “Honey Glazed Ham”.