Baked Ham with Brown Sugar Pineapple Glaze and Grilled Pineapple Rings is an updated version of a classic holiday family dinner.
Ham has been the main course of choice for my family as far back as I can remember. And, my father usually made it for us with my mother cooking the rest of Easter dinner for our family.
I’ve made ham many ways over the last 20+ years that I’ve hosted our family holiday meals and I’ve made a couple that weren’t so tasty {grin}. Usually overcooked, they were dry like shoe leather. I think what I couldn’t get through my pea brain for a few years is that the ham I purchased, usually a spiral-cut ham, was already cooked. I was just supposed to heat it up! Instead, I would cook it like a turkey – for hours and hours – and we’d have this shriveled lump with a black crusty top. My family would eat it anyway and tell me it was delicious! Liars! All of them! {grin}
Last year, I made one in a slow cooker that was a complete disaster! You can read about that mess in this post – Brown Sugar Pineapple Ham: a Cautionary Tale of a Pinterest Failure. I seem to have this “thing” about brown sugar, pineapple and ham {grin}!
This is really an easy recipe – just 3 ingredients. Can you guess what they are?
Brown sugar, pineapple and ham!
Actually, there are four ingredients if you include Robert Rothschild Farm’s Roasted Pineapple & Habanero Sauce, but it’s optional. By the way, this is not a “sponsored post”; I bought a bottle of this sauce at Costco and just love it, so I put some on the ham and served some on the side. Fair warning: it is a little spicy, but so delicious! I made Golden Leprechaun Bites from this sauce, too, so check out that recipe.
By the way, this is the actual ham I am serving for our Easter dinner. I made it ahead of time so that I could photograph it. I put it in the oven, made the sauce, basted the ham, grilled the pineapple, then got out the platter, took the ham out of the oven and then realized I had nothing to garnish the ham. Boing! That’s me hitting the palm of my hand on my forehead. Nothing to put on the platter with the ham…
So, I grabbed a basket and took a walk outside in my garden. It’s beautiful here in Southern California and all my plants are springing (no pun intended) to life. I have a rosemary plant that I bought as a topiary one Christmas and planted it in the garden after Christmas. It was in a 6-inch pot and now it’s 3 feet tall! Plus, I have about 10 lavender plants and about 20 sage plants – all are ginormous!
With clippers in hand, I cut rosemary, sage and lavender and brought them into the house to garnish this ham for the photo shoot. I’m not proposing that you cook your ham with rosemary, sage and lavender – somehow I think this would not be a good marriage of flavors {grin}! But, it sure made the house smell good while I was working on the photo shoot for this post!
Here’s the recipe:
- 10 pound spiral cut ham
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 10 ounces (1/2 of a 20 ounce can) of pineapple tidbits in 100% pineapple juice
- 20 ounce can of pineapple slices in 100% pineapple juice
- Non-stick cooking spray
- 1 cup of Robert Rothschild’s Farms Roasted Pineapple & Habanero Sauce (optional)
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
- Remove all packaging material from ham and wrap in heavy-duty aluminum foil.
- Place ham on rack inside of roasting pan.
- Bake for one hour and 10 minutes.
- In the meantime, make the glaze: combine the brown sugar with the juice from the pineapple tidbits in a saucepan.
- Heat on high until sauce comes to a boil.
- Remove from heat and stir in the pineapple tidbits.
- Add 1/4 cup of the roasted pineapple & habanero sauce and stir to combine.
- Remove ham from oven when it has cooked one hour and ten minutes.
- Carefully remove ham from foil wrapping and place back on rack inside the roasting pan.
- Pour glaze over ham and place back into the oven.
- Bake ham, uncovered, for another 30 minutes (total cooking time for the 10 pound ham is 1 hour and 40 minutes).
- While ham is baking, drain pineapple rings from the can.
- Coat a grill pan with non-stick cooking spray and heat on stovetop on medium high heat for a few minutes.
- Add pineapple rings and grill for a few minutes.
- Turn pineapple rings over with a spatula and grill for another few minutes.
- Remove ham from oven and transfer to a platter.
- Serve with grilled pineapple rings and roasted pineapple & habanero sauce on the side.
Tootles,
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This looks so delicious. Pineapple Habanero sauce sounds right up my alley. Thanks for sharing with Small Victories Sunday linkup. Pinning to our linkup board.
It’s really delicious – just the right amount of spice. Thanks for stopping by!
Yum! Thank you so much for linking up at Tasty Tuesday! Your recipe has been pinned to the Tasty Tuesday Pinterest board! Please join us again this week!
Thanks for pinning! This has now become my new favorite “go to” way to cook it – delish!
Thanks for linking up to this week’s Tasty Tuesday. I have added your recipe to the Tasty Tuesday Pinterest Board.
Thanks so much! I appreciate your support and you pinning it to Pinterest!
Love a good ham for Easter and yours looks delicious! Thank you so much for sharing with us at VMG206 Brag About It!
You’re welcome! Thanks for dropping by. I’ve had some ham “disasters” in my experience, so this one is a keeper!
This looks great!
It was truly delicious. I don’t believe I’ll make ham any other way from now on!
Yummy! Just printed the recipe. Hope it turns out as good as yours.
I’m sure it will! Happy Easter!