Baked Ham
Equipment
- Roasting Pan
- Meat Rack
Ingredients
- 1 Leg of Ham
- 1 Jar of your favourite fruit jam I have used many different flavours of jam when baking my hams. My favourite is Pear and Vanilla but any flavour will work great. Apple & Cinnamon, Fig, Cranberry Sauce
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 150°C.
- Remove the skin from the ham. You can do this easily by using a knife to detach the skin from the shank and then slowly use your fingers under the skin to remove it. The idea is to retain as much fat as possible. This is the trickiest part of the recipe!
- Next you will need to score the ham fat. Just cut along the ham fat diagonally, being careful not to go too deep into the ham. Then go diagonally in the opposite direction to make diamond patterns. You can also just cut lines across the ham. Or use your imagination and try something different. The reason for doing this is just so that the jam has a place to sit and flavour the ham and it looks great once its cooked. Delicious!
- Place the ham on the meat rack in the roasting pan and fill the pan to the halfway mark with water. The reason for this is that it will keep the ham super moist and it will also prevent the sticky jam from making a mess of your pan.
- The ham will need to bake slowly for about 2hrs. Check it after the first hour to make sure the water hasn't evaporated, if it has carefully replace it.