Name: Slow Roasted Honey Ham (GF, DF)
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 4 h 30 min
Total time: 4 h 40 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Dinner
Ingredients: 1.3-1.6kg gammon joint; 400-500g tin of pineapples chunks in juice; 2 heaped tsp treacle; 4 heaped tsp honey; 1 heaped tsp wholegrain mustard; 2 heaped tsp brown sugar

Slow Roasted Honey Ham (GF, DF)

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For the ultimate, easy yet delicious roast dinner, you must try this slow roasted honey ham! It is naturally gluten free (and dairy free) and makes for a brilliant Sunday roast or feast centerpiece.

Perfect for when you want to whip up dinner for friends and family without having to faff around in the kitchen for hours.

The ham slow cooks in pineapple juice for 4 hours in the oven, before a final roast for 30 minutes smothered in a treacle honey marinade. The result – a perfect slow-cooked ham that falls apart into delicious melt-in-the-mouth chunks.

Serve it up with crispy roast potatoes and all the trimmings for a classic Sunday roast. Or how about creamy mash and green beans. Or even some decadent potato dauphinoise mmmm!

Or why not try my cauliflower cheese recipe (the perfect partner for salty meats). That has to be one of my favourite combos.

This is a recipe you’ll make again and again, as it really is incredibly simple and yield the most delicious roast ham.

Can I Make This Ham Ahead of Time?

You can do the slow cooking stage the day before if needed, just add 15 minutes of cooking at 180C before you crank the oven up to 200C for the final 30 minutes of roasting with the marinade.

I prefer to cook it all in one go, but one particularly busy Christmas I precooked the ham the day before, then finished it off on Christmas Day. I had a LOT to cook in a tiny oven, so this was a real saviour!

I’ve Got Leftovers – What Can I Do with Them

Oh you lucky, lucky thing! This ham makes THES BEST leftovers ever.

Ways I use our leftovers: in sandwiches, in spaghetti carbonara, on pizza alongside the leftover pineapple, in my Chorizo Stew (in place of the chorizo), in Pea & Ham Hock soup. But mainly, it’s hard to resist scoffing them straight from the fridge!

Slow Roasted Ham Recipe

Here’s the recipe! If you enjoy this slow roasted honey ham, I would be reeeeeeeeeeally grateful if you could leave a 5 star rating on the recipe card below.

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Enjoy! Laura xxx

Serves 8

Slow Roasted Honey Ham (GF, DF)

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 4 hours 30 minutes

Total Time: 4 hours 40 minutes

Ingredients

1.3-1.6kg gammon joint
400-500g tin of pineapples chunks in juice
2 heaped tsp treacle
4 heaped tsp honey
1 heaped tsp wholegrain mustard
2 heaped tsp brown sugar

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 150C (fan).

Take a medium-sized casserole dish (with a lid) and place the gammon joint in the dish so that it fits quite snuggly, with a little room around the edge.

Drain off the pineapple juice into a measuring jug, then top up with water so you have about 600ml liquid.

Tuck the pineapple chunks around the gammon and pop and extras on top. Then, pour the juice and water into the casserole dish, covering the ham around 2/3 of the way up the dish.

Pop the lid on the casserole dish and then place in the over to slow-cook for 4 hours at 150C. After two hours of cooking, turn the gammon and top up the water level (if needed) slightly to stop it drying out.

Take the gammon out of the casserole dish and place in a roasting pan - the pineapple chunks go on the bottom of the pan underneath the gammon and around the edges. The fat should be facing up - use a knife to gently criss-cross the fat, as this will help it crisp up during the final stage of roasting.

Turn the oven up to 200C (fan). Save the ham juice in a jug, as you will need a little for the marinade and it makes a lovely sauce for serving.

To make the marinade, mix the treacle, honey, mustard, brown sugar and 2 tsp of the juice from the ham.

Smoother all over the ham and then the ham goes back into the oven for a final 30 minutes of roasting at 200C.

Now the slow roasted ham is ready to serve. Pop it on a large serving plate with the pineapple heaped on one side. Using two forks to shred the slow roasted ham into rough chunks and then serve with the ham juice (heated) and trimmings of your choice.

The slow roasted ham leftovers are also brilliant for sandwiches, salads and pea and ham soup in the following days…that is assuming your guests don’t gobble this tasty sticky ham all up!