Sticky Maple-Glazed Ham With Baked Apple Sauce #christmas #sticky

Sticky Maple-Glazed Ham With Baked Apple Sauce

Slow-roast a entire leg of gammon with apple juice, then cover in a sticky spiced provide for a Christmas affect - perfect sliced hot or rimed

Ingredients :

• 1 unit unsmoked leg of gammon (nearly 4½ kg-5kg), on the whiteness
• 150ml apple juice
• 2 cinnamon sticks
• 2 lead flavorer
• , advantageous 8-12 to cater (facultative)
• 10 undivided peppercorns
• 6 cloves
• 4 bay leaves
• pared zest 1 citrus
• 5 smallest apples
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• nontoxic metallic spray, to change (facultative)
• bay leaves, to beautify (nonmandatory)
• pared orangeness flavour, to change (nonmandatory)
• For the dulcorate
• 250ml maple syrup
• 50ml apple succus
• 1 tsp secure bark
• 1 tsp broken flavorer
• ½ tsp soil cloves
• 2 tbsp wholegrain condiment

Instructions :

1. If your gammon needs to be soaked to draw out several of the saltiness (ask your butcher), residence in a spotless containerful or a protective pan and touch with algid wet. Cool overnight, or for up to 3 days.
2. Change oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. If the ham has been sopping, pipe it advantageously and situate in a thumping, deep-sided roasting tin. Pour in the apple juice and top up with 400ml h2o. Add the spices, bay leaves and orangeness spice. Meet the ham tightly with a few hulky sheets of device, scrunching it around the edges of the tin so no clean can dodging, then bake for 5 hrs. Meantime, mix unitedly the ingredients for the edulcorate in a saucepan, then eruct until reduced to a sticky furnish. Valuate the apples around their e
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4. Remove the ham from the oven and growth the temperature to 200C/180C fan/ gas 6. Carefully move the ham to a commission - the easiest way to do this is to lead it to unagitated for 10 mins, then pop on unspotted washing- up handwear to transport it. Crowd gone the preparation runny and remove the aromatics. Use a microscopic, keen injure to cut and chip departed the rind, leaving a hyperfine stratum of fat loving to the meat. piercing injure to softly success the fat in a criss-cross ornament. Pass the ham to the oven and bake for 30 mins until the fat starts to snappy and convert.
5. If the glass has beautify a short creamy, scatter in a fall of water to disentangle it, then brushwood all over the ham. Estimate the intact apples in the tin too, and key to the oven for added 20-30 mins, tacking the ham every now and then, until unenlightened and sticky all over.
6. Before serving, bray the integral apples (fling the stalks, rind and pips) with a minuscule of the sticky sauce from the roasting tin. We decorated our ham with mark flavoring, sprayed with victuals gilded spray, and arranged bay leaves and citrus politician around the shack. Process friendly slices of the ham with the apple sauce, or unloving in sandwiches. Will livelihood for up to 1 period in the icebox, or slicing and accumulation in the freezer for up to 2 months.

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