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glazed holiday ham

Glazed Ham

Glazed ham, perfect holiday recipe
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 2 hours 30 minutes
Total Time 2 hours 45 minutes
Course baking, cooking, dinner, holidays, lunch, Main Course
Cuisine American, comfort, fusion, southern
Servings 20 people

Equipment

  • cutting board/knife
  • Baking dish
  • Saucepot
  • Whisk
  • ladle

Ingredients
  

Ham

  • 1 each onion, diced
  • 2 stalks celery
  • 1 each carrot
  • 5 lbs ham
  • 20 each cloves
  • 1/4 cup orange juice
  • 3/4 cup water
  • 3 tbsp dijon mustard

Glaze

  • 1/2 cup orange juice
  • 6 tbsp honey
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 2 each bay leave
  • 2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp allspice
  • 4 tbsp mustard
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1 stick butter
  • 1 cup liquid from ham

Instructions
 

Ham

  • Remove ham from the fridge, set out at room temp for 1-2 two hours before cooking.
  • Dice onions, celery & carrot. Spread mirepoix on the bottom of a baking dish and place ham on top.
  • Using a sharp knife, score ham diagonally. Repeat scoring, diagonally, in the opposite direction. This will create diamond patterns.
  • Once the ham is scored, stick cloves into the intersections of each diamond. Watch the recipe video below for a tutorial.
  • Mix together 1/4 cup orange juice, 3/4 cup water, and 3 tbsp of dijon mustard. Pour this mixture over the ham.
  • Cover ham with foil and bake in the oven at 325 degrees F for 1hr and 20 minutes.

Glaze

  • In a saucepan add orange juice, honey, cinnamon, bay leaves, salt, allspice, dijon mustard, brown sugar, and butter. Whisk everything together.
  • Drain 1 cup of liquid from your ham and add it to the pot with your glaze mixture.
  • Cook your glaze on medium heat for 10-15 minutes or until it is reduced by half. The glaze should be thick enough to fully coat the back of a spoon. Watch the recipe video below for a tutorial.
  • After the ham has cooked for 1hr and 20 minutes covered, remove it from the oven
  • Turn oven to 425 degrees F. Glaze your ham and then put it back in the oven
  • Repeat this process every 10 minutes or until your ham reaches an internal temperature of 135 degrees F.
  • Cover your ham and let rest for 15-20 minutes. Carryover cooking will bring the internal temp to 140 degrees F. See notes.
  • Slice ham & enjoy with glaze!

Video

Notes

Why should I score my ham?

Scoring the ham will allow the glaze to penetrate your ham easily while cooking, allowing for more flavor. Watch the recipe video below for a tutorial.

What carryover cooking?

Carryover cooking (sometimes referred to as resting) is when foods are halted from actively cooking and allowed to equilibrate under their own retained heat. Because foods such as meats are typically measured for cooking temperature near the center of mass, stopping cooking at a given central temperature means that the outer layers of the food will be at a higher temperature than that measured. Heat therefore will continue to migrate inwards from the surface, and the food will cook further even after being removed from the source of heat.
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