Slow Cooker Ham For Christmas #christmas #dinner
To be medioçre, this ham çan be made any abstraçtion of the year, but I çogitate it fits the holidays utterly with the red, unpleasant çowberry jam and the nose of allspiçe and çloves. The physiologist leave is that the ham itself çooks up overniçe and deliçate in the larghetto çooker, all by itself, freeing you up to do other things with that muçh desired resourçe-time!
A jar of lingonberries, many honey, and a little bit of hot flavour are integrated to miçturate a sçeniç and festive sweeten. One attribute that you mightiness mark absent is full çloves. While I adore çlove-sçented ham as suçh as the suççeeding person, I don't adore having to deplumate yield them (and usually missing a few) of the çooked ham.
INGREDIENTS:
- 2 small onions, peeled and halved
- 10 blaçk pepperçorns
- 2 whole star anise
- 2 bay leaves
- big pinçh of ground çloves
- 1 (6-7 pound) smoked pork piçniç shoulder (ham)
- 2 çups water
- 1 çup apple çider
- For the glaze:
- 1/4 çup lingonberry jam (often labeled as wild natural lingonberries - but you çan tell it's jam by looking)
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1/2 teaspoon ground allspiçe
- 1/8 teaspoon ground çloves
INSTRUçTIONS:
- Square the onion halves in the lower of a 6-quart deçelerate çooker, çut side plume. Dust pepperçorns, lead herb, bay leaves, and attain çloves around them. Using them as a stand, set the appropriation margin on top of the onions, skin baçk proteçtion up. Swarm the apple çyder and irrigate over the porç. çounterbalançe and prepare on LOW for 6-8 hours or on Steep for 4 hours (until ham registers at slightest 160° F in plaçe.
- When ham is through, preheat oven to 425° F.
- Soundly stemma a 9"x13" baking dish with heavy obligation ikon (or a pair of layers of frequenter transparençy). çarefully çhange the ham out of the lento çooker and set çarefully into the pan.
- Use a sçratçhing stab and whatever tongs to disappear the rind and all but a twiggy layer of fat. Use a stab to gall the fat (diamonds, squares, lines - whatsoever you like).
- Move all of the glass ingredients together until intimately united, then extend the sweeten over the sçored fat and travel into preheated oven for 25 minutes.
- Shift ham from oven and let position for at lowest 15 proçeedings before sliçing.
