If you and your family love baked ham at Christmas time, you’ll be pleased to know that it’s actually quite easy to prepare yourself. This easy Pineapple Maple Glazed Ham recipe uses pineapple juice and brown sugar to make a sweet, fruity, syrupy glaze for Christmas-baked ham.

Unlike some traditional Christmas bake ham recipes that use brown sugar for the glaze, we love this Pineapple Glaze Baked Ham Recipe as it’s sweet thanks to the pineapple juice and balsamic instead.

We’ve got lots of recipes that use ham in our 28 Day Weight Loss Challenge. It’s such a versatile meat to use over the festive season for sandwiches, wraps, salads, and hot dinners.

If you’d like access to our Christmas Cookbook, click here to download.

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Christmas Baked Ham With Pineapple Glaze

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Ingredients

• 3.6 kg whole ham joint boneless
• 5 tbsp balsamic vinegar
• 5 tbsp pineapple juice + extra if needed
• 30 whole cloves
• 2 tbsp grainy mustard

Course Main Dish Servings or more Ingredients 3.6 kg whole ham joint boneless 5 tbsp balsamic vinegar 5 tbsp pineapple juice + extra if needed 30 whole cloves 2 tbsp grainy mustard

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Instructions

1. Boil the ham in boiling water, skimming the scum from the top of the joint, for about an hour. This just speeds up the cooking time.
2. Allow the ham to cool enough so that you can handle it. Meanwhile, mix together the balsamic, pineapple juice and grainy mustard.
3. Score the ham with a sharp knife one way and then score it in the opposite direction to create diamond shapes on the flesh of the meat. Poke a clove onto the points of each diamond.
4. Pour the balsamic mixture over the ham and place into a 170C oven. Cook for half an hour, then scoop up any mixture that has run off the ham and baste the ham. Cook for another two hours, basting every twenty minutes, and if you need more liquid add more pineapple juice. Leave to rest for 20 minutes under foil before serving.

Recipe Notes

258 calories per 100g

For more ideas for planning your family Christmas, grab yourself a copy of our Healthy Mummy Christmas Book.

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