Description
Honey Glazed Ham – an absolutely delicious honey bourbon glazed ham recipe that is perfect for any holiday meal! So easy!
Ingredients
Scale
Ham:
- Approx. 7lb ham
- water
- 2–3 whole cloves
- 1–2 star anise
Glaze:
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1/4 cup coconut sugar or brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted
- 1 teaspoon dijon mustard
- 1 teaspoon grated lemon zest
- 1 teaspoon bourbon (more if desired)
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
- Add glaze ingredients to a small bowl; whisk to combine. Set aside.*
- Pour 4-6 cups of water in the bottom of a roasting pan. Add cloves and star anise. Place roasting rack inside.
- Unwrap your ham and place it cut side down on the roasting rack. Use a paring knife to score the outer skin crisscross (be careful not to cut all the way down to the meat).
- Place in oven, middle rack, and let cook 20 minutes.
- Remove and brush lightly with glaze. Cover tightly with foil and return to oven.
- Bake approximately 18-22 minutes per pound (include the 20 minutes from Step 5 in this total cook time) or until it reaches an internal temperature of 140 degrees F.
- When there is approximately 10-20 minutes of cook time left, remove from oven and brush with glaze all over (feel free to layer it on pretty thick) – ensuring you get it in every nook and cranny. Turn oven up to 400 degrees.
- Return to oven, uncovered, and let finish cooking. The glaze should get tacky and caramelized and turn a bit brown.
- Remove from oven and let rest 10-15 minutes.
- (optional) You can use a kitchen torch to caramelize the glaze after cooking if you want a crispier/browner skin – that is what I did in the photos shown).
- Carve and serve.
Notes
- *you can place the glaze in a small saucepan and put on low heat on the stove – this will thin it out. I didn’t do this during testing and I liked the way the glaze was thicker so it went on nice and thick on the ham. But, if you are used to heating up your glaze first – please don’t let me stop you!
- Water to thin: if you feel the glaze is a little too thick you can add water (a tablespoon at a time) to it and whisk to combine.
- Bourbon: feel free to omit if you want OR you can add more too!
- Dairy-Free: feel free to use a plant-based butter in the glaze.
- Double it: you can easily double the ham glaze recipe, if needed.