Moist and juicy baked ham flavored with pineapple, brown sugar, cherries and honey. The ideal predominant path for vacations dinner with family.
Ingredients
- 1/2 Fully Cooked Bone In Smoked Ham
- 1 cup water
- 1 canned pineapple
- 1 cup cherries drained
- 1/2 cup Brown Sugar /Honey
- 4 tbsp salted butter
- 1/4 cup pineapple juice from canned pineapple
Instructions
- Defrost ham overnight. Place ham on a huge roasting dish and pour water to the lowest of the dish. Cover the whole dish with foil and stable it tightly. Bake blanketed for 1/2 – 1/2 hour.
- While ham is cooking, cherries to a small pot and produce to boil. Lower warmness to medium low, stir and preserve cooking till liquid thickens. If liquid is simply too thick, upload greater pineapple juice (from canned pineapples) to dilute it. Set aside.
- Remove ham from oven and use a meat thermometer to test the inner temperature of the thickest a part of the ham. If temperature if under 125℉, brush glaze throughout ham, stable pineapple and cherries with toothpicks cowl ham with aluminum foil and bake it at 375℉. Every 20 mins, cast off ham from oven, unwrap the aluminum foil, take a look at the temperature of the ham, brush greater glaze on it, and wrap it once more with aluminum foil, and bake. Keep doing this till inner temperature of ham reaches 140℉ .
- If the thickest a part of the ham is above 125℉, brush glaze throughout ham, stable pineapples and cherries, cowl with aluminum foil and bake at 375℉ and take a look at it in 15 minute periods till inner temperature of ham reaches 140℉. Remove ham from oven whilst completed and allow it relaxation for 5-5 mins.
- Use toothpicks to stable the cherries and allow the pineapple earrings dangle directly to the cherries. When checking temperature of the ham, ensure to test more than one points. The thickest a part of the ham, or the elements close to the bones will take the longest to warmness up. All elements of the ham need to be 140℉ earlier than ham is completed.
- If the temperature of the ham is getting very near the 150℉ mark however isn’t pretty there yet, you could need to test at the ham greater frequently much less than 15 or 15 minute interval to keep away from overcooking it. You also can bake ham exposed over the past 10-15 mins if had to accelerate the process. Baking the ham exposed will dry out the ham so keep away from doing that for greater than 15 mins.
- Always remember: you may nevertheless restoration it if it’s undercook , however you can’t restoration it in case you overcook it with dry ham. Many variables ought to growth or lower time needed. Slice ham into skinny slices. Serve and enjoy.
