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Fresh Ham

Organic Pastured Fresh Ham Recipe With An Apricot Honey Glaze


  • Author: Halle Cottis
  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Cook Time: 4 hours
  • Total Time: 4 hours 10 minutes
  • Yield: Makes enough for 12 people
  • Category: main dish
  • Method: baking
  • Cuisine: american

Description

Learn how to make a fresh ham with apricot honey glaze that tastes amazing!


Ingredients

  • (1) 8-10 pound pastured ham (bone in, skin on)
  • Salt, garlic salt, and pepper to taste
  • 1/2 cup organic apricot preserves or spread
  • 1/4 cup raw honey (slighted heated to melt)
  • 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
  • yellow mustard

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 325 F.
  2. Rinse ham and pat dry.
  3. Spread some yellow mustard all over the ham.
  4. Very liberally salt your ham with unrefined sea salt and garlic salt. Don’t worry about over salting the ham. Pepper your ham as well.
  5. Bake until internal temperature reaches 160 F. This will be about 18-20 minutes per pound of meat. Mine took about 4 hours to cook and it was almost 9 pounds.
  6. Mix together the apricot preserves, honey, and cinnamon in a small bowl.
  7. When the internal temperature reaches 140 F, start basting the ham with the apricot glaze (this is done for roughly the last 1 1/2 hour of the baking). Do this every 30 minutes until the ham is done.
  8. When ham reaches 160 F, take out of the oven and allow to rest for 15 minutes. Slice and serve.

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 1 serving