This Pomegranate Maple Glazed Ham is covered with a sticky sweet tangy glaze made with pomegranate juice, coconut sugar, dijon, maple syrup and warm spices. An easy holiday ham recipe is guaranteed to be the star of your dinner table.
Table of Contents
- The Best Glazed Baked Ham Recipe
- Is bone in ham better than boneless ham?
- How much spiral ham do I need per person?
- Do you need remove the skin from the ham?
- Can you glaze the ham a day before?
- Ingredients you’ll need to make this maple glazed baked ham:
- How do you cook a spiral ham so it doesn’t dry out?
- How to make Maple Glazed Baked Ham:
- Get the Recipe
The Best Glazed Baked Ham Recipe
Spiral Ham is kinda a thing during Christmas and Easter. During the holidays, when my Uncle was hosting Christmas, we would have a Honey Baked Ham at their house almost every year. There is just something about a perfectly glazed ham with a sweet sticky crispy skin.
Truth be told, the leftovers are also my favorite part! We use to make ham sandwiches, split pea soup with the ham bone or ham and cheese omelets. Ham for days!
When you by a spiral ham most of the time it will have a glaze or seasoning packet in the pre-cooked ham package. Don’t use! Make your own! And guess what that’s what today’s recipe is all about! Tossing the packaged glaze and making an even better one that your people will swoon over! Trust me!
Is bone in ham better than boneless ham?
Yes, any time you can cook with the bone in the flavor will always be better. If you don’t want to deal with the bone, then I’d recommend buying a semi-boneless ham which has the shank bone removed but will still give you good flavor and will make it easier to cut.
How much spiral ham do I need per person?
A good starting point is 3/4 to 1 pound per person on a bone in spiral ham or 1/2 pound per person on a boneless spiral ham.
Do you need remove the skin from the ham?
No. Keep the ham skin or rind on while baking, because it helps to baste the fat underneath leaving you with a flavorful ham.
Can you glaze the ham a day before?
No, this recipe contains sugar and maple syrup. Glazing the ham a day before will cause the ham to burn while it is cooking. I save the glaze in this recipe till the last 30 minutes so that the ham is perfectly cooked and you still have a nice sticky coating on the ham skin that everyone loves.
Ingredients you’ll need to make this maple glazed baked ham:
- 10 pound bone in Spiral Ham – bone in and pre-cooked
- Maple Syrup – the main sweetener for this glaze
- Coconut Sugar – I use this in place of regular granulated sugar
- Pomegranate Juice – this adds a nice tartness to the glaze
- Dijon Mustard – the acid cuts through the sweetness to this glaze, plus everyone loves a little mustard with their ham 🙂
- Warm Spices – I use ground Cinnamon, Clove and Allspice in this recipe because I think it goes very well with both the maple syrup and the pomegranate juice and really brings out the flavor of the ham
How do you cook a spiral ham so it doesn’t dry out?
There are a couple of things I do when cooking a ham to make sure it doesn’t dry out. I put
How to make Maple Glazed Baked Ham:
- Preheat oven to 325°F.
- Tightly wrap the entire ham with tin foil and place on a rack, fat side down, in a roasting pan. Fill roasting pan with about 2-3 cups of water.
- Bake on middle rack of oven for 1 1/2 hours or until internal temperature is 120°F.
- In the meantime, to a small sauce pan add pomegranate juice, maple syrup, coconut sugar, dijon mustard, ground cinnamon, ground clove and ground allspice. Whisk together and bring to a slow boil, stirring throughout. Once sauce has thickened, about 3-4 minutes. Remove from heat and set aside.
- Remove ham from oven and open the top part of the tin foil so ham is exposed. Liberally apply pomegranate maple glaze to the ham. (I use about half) Return ham the oven, uncovered, and bake for another 30 minutes.
- Remove ham from oven and let rest for 10 minutes.
- Slice and serve with glaze on the side.
I cannot wait to hear what you guys think of this Holiday Ham. The pomegranate maple glaze on top totally takes this ham over the top. Trust me! My kids were in love with the glaze!
This Maple Glazed Ham is amazing day of but even better the next day! I even chopped some up and through it in a frittata!
Bon Appetit friends!
Pomegranate Maple Glazed Ham
- Prep Time: 10 min
- Cook Time: 2 hr
- Total Time: 2 hr 10 min
- Yield: 18-20 1x
- Category: Pork, Gluten Free, Holiday, Christmas, Easter
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Description
This Pomegranate Maple Glazed Ham is covered with a sticky sweet tangy glaze made with pomegranate juice, coconut sugar, dijon, maple syrup and warm spices. An easy holiday ham recipe guaranteed to be the star of your dinner table.
Ingredients
- 10 lb. fulled cooked spiral bone-in ham
Pomegranate Maple Glaze:
- 1/3 cup pomegranate juice
- 1/2 cup maple syrup
- 1/3 cup coconut sugar
- 1 1/2 tablespoons dijon mustard
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground clove
- 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325°F.
- Tightly wrap the entire ham with tin foil and place on a rack, fat side down, in a roasting pan. Fill roasting pan with 2-3 cups of water.
- Bake on middle rack of oven for 1 1/2 hours or until internal temperature is 120°F.
- In the meantime, to a small sauce pan add pomegranate juice, maple syrup, coconut sugar, dijon mustard, ground cinnamon, ground clove and ground allspice. Whisk together and bring to a slow boil, stirring throughout. Once sauce has thickened, about 3-4 minutes. Remove from heat and set aside.
- Remove ham from oven and open the top part of the tin foil so ham is exposed. Liberally apply pomegranate maple glaze to the ham. (I use about half) Return ham the oven, uncovered, and bake for another 30 minutes.
- Remove ham from oven and let rest for 10 minutes.
- Slice and serve with glaze on the side.
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