Each vacation feast deserves a show-stopping centerpiece that creates days’ price of leftovers to be used in different dishes. Enter this brown sugar-glazed ham baked in your Ooni pizza oven. This recipe, from yard grill professional and Ooni Ambassador James Synowicki, tastes greatest when fired with wooden to get the utmost smoky taste. He recommends including slightly fruit wooden (assume apple or cherry) for further taste within the ham and its pineapple garnish.
Sometimes called Yuletide ham (although pleasurable year-round), baked ham is a time-honored option to make a normal vacation meal really feel further particular. This ham is moist and tender inside, with a candy and sticky exterior barely charred from the brown sugar glaze. A charred pineapple garnish ensures each chunk is succulent and flavorful, leaving you and your company wanting extra. Prompt accompaniments embrace smoked almonds for nibbling and a vivid, zesty salad to create a colourful desk unfold.
By selecting a barely bigger ham, you’ll be setting your self up properly for these vacation leftovers. A festive Hawaiian pizza, ham sandwiches with cranberry and cheese, or just a midnight snack when nobody is wanting.. the probabilities abound.
Notes: This recipe is appropriate for bigger 16” ovens with a taller inner peak as a result of measurement of the ham. We advocate wood-fired cooking, because the smokiness of the gasoline provides a wealthy taste to the meat over an extended cook dinner.
Be sure to double examine that the smoked ham you propose on utilizing is totally cooked. (Test the package deal to make sure it’s; a totally cooked ham simply must be heated by means of to 140°F [60°C].) Be at liberty to substitute any high quality smoked ham accessible to you.
Time
10 minutes prep time, 90 minutes cook dinner time
1 hour 40 minutes complete time
Yield
Serves 8-10
Tools
Ooni Karu 16, Ooni Koda 16, or Ooni Pro 16 oven
Ooni Infrared Thermometer
Ooni Cast Iron Skillet Pan
Pastry brush
Aluminum foil
Meat thermometer
Ooni Dual-Sided Grizzler Plate
Substances
For the ham
1 smoked buffet ham, mid-thigh, roughly 5 kilos (2.2 kilograms)
2 tablespoons (32 grams) orange juice
1 tablespoon (16 grams) Dijon mustard
2 teaspoons (2.5 grams) contemporary rosemary, finely chopped
2 tablespoons (30 grams) water
For the brown sugar glaze
½ cup (125 grams) orange juice
2 teaspoons (5 grams) cornstarch
½ cup (111 grams) brown sugar
2 tablespoons (32 grams) Dijon mustard
¼ teaspoon (0.5 gram) floor ginger
For the pineapple garnish
1 complete ripe pineapple, rind eliminated, cored, and sliced into 8 to 10 rings
8 to 10 glacé cherries (optionally available)
Methodology
Fireplace up your Ooni pizza oven to 350°F (167°C). Use the infrared thermometer to shortly and simply examine the temperature inside.
If cooking with wooden/charcoal, use a charcoal mattress and shut the baffle.
If cooking with fuel, preserve the oven on the lowest setting. Should you discover the temperature turns into too excessive, flip off the oven at intervals and cook dinner with the residual warmth.
Place the ham flat aspect down within the skillet. Mix orange juice, Dijon mustard and rosemary in a small bowl. Brush the ham with the combination utilizing the pastry brush.
Bake the ham uncovered on the mouth of the oven for quarter-hour, rotating 4 instances till the outside of the ham begins to char.
Take away the pan, pour water into the skillet and canopy tightly with foil. Scale back the warmth to 325°F (162°C) and return the pan to the mouth of the oven to cook dinner for one hour, giving it 1 / 4 flip each 10 minutes.
In the meantime, put together the glaze. Create a slurry by mixing half the orange juice with the cornstarch in a small bowl to stop the cornstarch from clumping within the glaze. Add the combination to a small saucepan together with the sugar, mustard, ginger and remaining juice, and convey to a boil. Decrease the warmth and simmer for 3 minutes, then take away from the warmth and permit it to chill.
After one hour, take away the ham from the oven and enhance the warmth to 425°F (218°C).
Take away the foil, brush the ham with the glaze and return it to the oven uncovered till it caramelizes. Flip the ham each couple of minutes to maintain the sugar from burning. (If cooking with wooden and/or charcoal and the flames start rolling too near the ham, open the gasoline hatch.)
After quarter-hour, the ham ought to attain an inner temperature of 140°F (60°C), however use a meat thermometer to precisely examine the temperature. As soon as the ham is cooked, take away it from the oven, cowl with foil and put aside when you grill the pineapple slices.
Place the grizzler plate within the oven and enhance the warmth to 450°F (232°C). Preheat the pan for five minutes.
Brush each side of the pineapple slices with the liquid within the backside of the ham pan. Place the slices immediately on the new grizzler plate and cook dinner for as much as 5 minutes per aspect.
Slice the ham into skinny strips utilizing a pointy carving knife. Serve the new pineapple slices (and optionally available glacé cherries) with every portion of ham so each visitor will get a juicy slice.
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