Lucy Tweed is a food writer, food stylist and cookbook author.
Her online handle is ‘Every Night of the Week’ where she aims to make delicious foods for you guessed it … every night of the week.
Today, she is sharing how to glaze the perfect Christmas ham.
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For more great recipes, check out her website.
Recipe below:
STICKY SWEET SPICED GLAZED HAM
Serves: 12–15
Prep time: 30 minutes
Cook time: 2 hours
INGREDIENTS:
7 kg whole ham
Glaze
300ml (or a jar) sticky sauce – Marmalade, BBQ sauce or your favourite marinade
1 cup sweet liquid – Coca-Cola, orange juice, lemonade
1 tbs each spice – mustard, ginger and cinnamon powder
1 cup brown sugar
Optional
½ cup booze – whiskey, rum
METHOD:
Preheat oven to 150ºc
Whisk together all ingredients for the glaze
Heat gently over med heat until warmed through.
Using a sharp knife, cut the skin around the knuckle like a cuff and begin to remove the skin
only. Do this very slowly to keep the fat as intact as possible. Score the fat lightly in any
pattern you wish.
Place the ham on a paper-lined tray and bake for 10 minutes to open the fat.
Brush heavily with the glaze and bake for 20 minutes.
Then, repeat this process of brush basting for the next hour and a half.
Carve while warm.
TIPS
Skinning the ham is best done at room temp.
Lightly scoring the fat – with a butter knife’s blunt side- allows the glaze to sink in a bit and
become candy-like.
Go gently, trying not to lift away fat.
This can be done the day ahead.