Southern Pecan Crusted Ham
Easy Southern Pecan Crusted Ham bakes up golden brown with a brown sugar, molasses and apple juice glaze. Savory, sweet and holiday perfect!
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Servings: 6 people
Ingredients
- 10-15 lb pre cooked, unglazed, bone-in ham
- 1 C brown sugar
- 1/2 C apple juice
- 1/3 C molasses
- 3 Tbsp dijon mustard
- 2 Tbsp butter
- 1/4 tsp ground cayenne pepper
- 1 splash Worcestershire sauce
- 1 C chopped pecans
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325° Fahrenheit.
- In a medium sauce pan over medium-low heat, whisk together brown sugar, apple juice, molasses, dijon, butter, cayenne and Worcestershire sauce. Bring to a low boil. Continue to cook down while stirring occasionally for 8-10 minutes. Remove from heat, stir in pecans and set aside.
- Remove rind/skin and most fat from ham. Place ham, cut side down/bone side up in roasting pan. Score ham either in diagonals or squares so that the glaze and fat can cook down into the ham.
- Rub about 1/2 of pecan glaze into ham, making it gets down into the scoring. Make a tent with foil and cover ham so that the foil does not touch it. Bake in preheated oven for 1 hour.
- After 1 hour, turn up oven temp to 350°, remove foil and baste ham with 1/2 of remaining glaze. Cook for 15 min. uncovered. Add rest of glaze and cook for another 15 minutes.
- Remove from oven and let rest for 10 minutes. Spoon drippings from pan over ham, place on garnished platter to serve.