Christmas Ham Recipe

Spice up the Christmas ham with ginger, maple syrup and beautiful Asian flavours for something a little more interesting this year.

The ingredient of Christmas Ham Recipe

• 125ml 1 2 cup maple syrup
• 110g 1 2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 500ml 2 cups apricot nectar
• 2 tbsp char siu sauce chinese barbecue sauce see note
• 1 tbsp ground ginger
• 6 star anise plus extra to decorate
• 7kg leg of ham on the bone
• 40 cloves
• crusty bread to serve
• mustard to serve

The Instruction of christmas ham recipe

• preheat oven to 160c to make glaze place the maple syrup sugar apricot nectar char siu sauce ginger and star anise in a saucepan over medium heat bring to a simmer and cook for 10 minutes or until slightly reduced set aside until needed
• to prepare ham using a sharp knife score a zig zag pattern around the shank narrow end of ham starting from the wide end slide your fingers under skin working them up between the skin and fat loosening skin as you go when you reach the scored shank end gently pull skin back in one piece and reserve to cover ham when storing using a sharp knife score fat at 3cm intervals in a diamond pattern stud points of each diamond with cloves
• line an oven tray with 2 layers of foil place ham on top and brush generously with glaze roast ham basting with glaze every 20 minutes for 1 1 2 hours decorate with extra star anise
• meanwhile place the remaining glaze in a small saucepan over medium heat bring to a simmer and cook for 15 minutes or until thickened brush over ham
• serve ham with bread and mustard

Nutritions of Christmas Ham Recipe

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