WGN Leisure Reporter Dean Richards shares a recipe for Christmas Ham within the gradual cooker.
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Substances:
- 7-8 pound spiral-cut ham (bone-in or boneless)
- 1 cup darkish brown sugar
- 1/2 cup pure maple syrup
- 2 cups pineapple juice
- 1 can pineapple slices
- Complete cloves
Instructions:
- Use a 6-7 quart gradual cooker (or use the “gradual cooker” perform in your insta-pot)
- Place the ham into the gradual cooker stoneware, flat-side down, with layers of kitchen twine underneath it so it may be simply faraway from the cooker when completed.
- Insert complete cloves evenly everywhere in the ham. You might have to poke holes within the ham with a knife to penetrate the powerful pores and skin.
- On the stems of the entire cloves, grasp a pineapple slice. Do it everywhere in the ham.
- In a separate bowl, make a paste of the brown sugar, maple syrup and pineapple juice and apply to the ham.
- Cowl and cook dinner on excessive for 4-5 hours.
- Baste ham with the collected juices from the underside of the gradual cooker periodically in the course of the cooking course of…and earlier than serving.
- When cooking is completed, take away fastidiously with the strings….and let it relaxation on a slicing board for 10 minutes earlier than carving.
See previous recipes from Dean on his cooking page.
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