Pineapple Glazed Ham

Pineapple Glazed Ham Recipe is a delicious main dish that's perfect for a holiday dinner, Sunday dinners, and is ideal for feeding a crowd. A simple homemade glaze made with pineapple juice, warm spices, and brown sugar creates a beautiful sticky finish and incredible flavor for your juicy ham.

Course Entrees

Cuisine American

Keyword glazed ham, Ham, pineapple, thanksgiving recipe

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 2 30

Total Time 2 35

Servings servings

Calories 318kcal

Author Wendie

Ingredients

4 tablespoons butter
1 ½ cups brown sugar
1 ½ cups pineapple juice
½ teaspoon cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon cloves
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
2 tablespoons cornstarch
2 tablespoons water
10 pound ham fully cooked

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil. Unwrap your ham and check to see if there is a plastic disc on the flat side of the ham.
Heat a medium saucepan and medium high heat and add the brown sugar, pineapple juice, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and bring to a simmer. Mix the cornstarch and water together to make a slurry and whisk that into the glaze. Bring to a simmer for 3-5 minutes until thickened.
Then place your ham flat side down onto the covered sheet pan. Drizzle 1/2 of the glaze over the ham.
Cover the ham with aluminum foil tightly. Bake for 1 hour then remove the foil and baste 5 or 6 times with the juices in the pan. Return to the oven for another hour. Then brush and other 1/2 of the glaze over the ham return the ham to the oven without the foil and bake another 30-45minutes (or until internal temperature reaches 140 degrees.) basting every 15 minutes with the juices.
Remove from the oven and let rest 15 minutes drizzle pan juices over the top and serve!

Notes

A fully cooked, bone-in spiral ham is the hero here — the bone keeps it juicy and the spirals let the glaze sneak into every nook.

If not spiral-cut, gently score a criss-cross pattern so the glaze can soak in and caramelize beautifully. Think “ham plaid.”

Brush glaze every 15 minutes during the last hour of baking.

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