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Honey glazed Christmas ham

Honey Glazed Ham - Christmas Recipe

By Tom · Updated

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  • About 2 hours 40 min
  • Takes a bit of care

This honey glazed ham recipe is everything you need for a show-stopping centrepiece. Juicy, tender, and coated with a rich, and sticky honey, mustard and orange glaze, it's comfort food for Christmas. I hope you enjoy it.

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The recipe

Honey glazed Christmas ham

This honey glazed ham recipe is everything you need for a show-stopping centrepiece.

  • 15 min prep
  • 2 hours 15 min cooking
  • 10 min hands-off
  • Takes a bit of care

Times and difficulty are our estimates from the method, not stopwatch figures.

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Method

  1. Step 1

    Cut the onion (1 onion) into quarters (skin on), carrot (1) into 4 or 5 chunks, the same again with the parsnip (1) and cut the bulb of garlic (1 garlic) in half.

  2. Step 2

    Place the gammon joint (1 joint) into a large saucepan and add in the chopped vegetables, bay leaf (2 leaf), star anise (2 anise), cloves (1 tsp), black peppercorns (1 tsp) and sage. Cover the pan with cold water until the ham is covered by 2 to 3 inches.

  3. Step 3

    Place over high heat and bring it to a boil. Once boiling, reduce to a simmer and cook for 20 minutes for every 500g/1lb. My joint (1 joint) was 2kg so I cooked it for 80 minutes.

  4. Step 4

    To Make the glaze mix the runny honey (150 g), wholegrain mustard (50 g) and orange juice until fully combined. Leave to one side until ready to use.

  5. Step 5

    Once the ham is cooked, preheat the oven to 180°C Fan. Take the ham from the pan (you can discard the water vegetables and spices) and remove the skin, leaving a decent layer of fat. Score the fat with a knife in a crisscross fashion and this is the stage where you can stud it with cloves (1 tsp) if you like.

  6. Step 6

    Place it into the preheated oven for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes spoon over 1/3 of the glaze and place it back into the oven. Repeat this 2 more times until you've used up all of the glaze. Take it from the oven one more time, baste it with the sticky glaze that is on the baking tray and place it back into the oven for a final 5 minutes.

  7. Step 7

    Remove from the oven and cool for at least 10 minutes before carving. Enjoy.

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How long does honey glazed christmas ham take?

About 2 hours 40 min from start to finish: 15 min of prep, 2 hours 15 min of cooking, and 10 min hands-off while it waits. That figure is worked out from the method rather than timed with a stopwatch, so give yourself a little more the first time.

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