Juicy, tender ham baked in the oven and glazed with an amazing orange glaze. The ham glaze is made with orange marmalade, Dijon mustard, honey, fresh orange, cinnamon, and cloves.
Note: If you did not get spiral sliced ham, use uncut one and just score skin on the top and sides of the ham with a knife. Make cuts across the skin that are about 1/4-1/2 inch deep, forming diamond shapes.
Glaze:
Combine ingredients for the glaze in a sauce pot and whisk until evenly combined. Bring the mixture to simmer over medium heat.
Let it simmer, stirring often, for about 10 minutes. Some of the liquid will cook off and the glaze will be thickened. Take off heat.
Baked Ham:
Preheat oven to 325°
Place a rack inside a roasting pan and add a couple of cups of water to the bottom of the pan.
Take ham out of the package and discard the packet of glaze that came with it. Place ham on a couple of sheets of aluminum foil and glaze it all over with about half the glaze. Reserve remaining glaze for later.
Wrap ham tightly in foil and place on the rack inside the roasting pan (flat side down if using half ham). Bake for about an hour covered.
Take ham out of the oven and open the foil. Raise oven temperature to 400°.
Glaze the ham all over and put it back in the oven, uncovered, for about 20-30 more minutes. The internal temperature close to the bone should be 140° when it's ready.
Take out the ham and let it rest for a few minutes before serving.
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Notes
Bake Time Recommendation:
Since the ham is already fully cooked, the goal is to simply re-heat it throughout.
Baking ham for about 15 minutes per pound at 325º should do the trick. Bake time slightly varies if baking half or whole ham.
When calculating bake time, estimate 15-20 minutes per pound for half ham that’s 5-8 lbs. Estimate 10-15 minutes per pound for whole ham that’s 10-14 lbs.
Most importantly, internal temperature should be at 140° closest to the bone.
For the sticky, beautiful glaze on the outside, about 30 minutes before ham is done, increase the oven temperate to 400° and bake uncovered with remaining glaze.
**Note: If your ham is labeled “cook before eating,” cook ham at 350° until internal temperature reaches 160°.
Which Ham To Get:
Most common ham that is available in grocery stores is called city ham. It’s fully cooked, comes with or without bone, and most are spiral cut. You can get this type of ham as a whole or a half. I recommend the fully cooked, spiral sliced, bone-in ham when available, but boneless works very well too.