Steve's Maple-Glazed Spiral Ham Recipe
The perfect holiday spiral ham! I meshed the best of multiple glazed ham recipes to come up with this sweet and savory ham recipe with a hint of holiday spice.
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- Serves: 1 person
Ingredients
- 9(9 pound) spiral-cut ham, refrigerated
- ¼cup apple cider
- ¼cup orange juice
- 1tablespoon cider vinegar
- ½cup maple syrup
- ½cup dark brown sugar
- ⅓cup white sugar
- 2tablespoons whole-grain Dijon mustard
- 1teaspoon soy sauce
- ⅛teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ⅛teaspoon ground ginger
- ⅛teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1pinch red pepper flakes
- 1pinch ground cloves
Instructions
Step 1
Place ham in a roasting pan and allow it to rest at room temperature for 30 to 45 minutes.Step 2
Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).Step 3
Mix apple cider, orange juice, and vinegar together in a bowl.Step 4
Open the spirals of the ham to reveal more of the meat's surface area. Pour the juice mixture over the ham. Cover with aluminum foil.Step 5
Bake in the preheated oven until heated through, about 45 minutes.Step 6
Whisk maple syrup, dark brown sugar, white sugar, mustard, soy sauce, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, red pepper flakes, and cloves together in a saucepan over medium heat until shimmering and smooth, about 2 minutes. Simmer 2 minutes more; remove glaze from heat to cool a bit.Step 7
Increase oven temperature to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).Step 8
Remove aluminum foil from heated ham. Brush 1/3 the glaze atop the ham to cover it completely.Step 9
Return ham to the hot oven. Bake, uncovered, about 8 minutes. Repeat adding glaze and baking for 8 minutes more.Step 10
Remove ham and baste a third time with remaining 1/3 glaze. Continue baking until glaze is caramelized and bubbly, 10 to 12 minutes. Remove from the oven and let rest 10 to 15 minutes before slicing. Drizzle pan juices on top.