Roasted Honey Glazed Gammon with mustard recipe. The best oven roast for a Christmas or Easter dinner, a boneless leg of smoked gammon meal.
Roasted Honey Glazed Gammon
Roasted Honey Glazed Gammon with mustard recipe. The best oven roast for a Christmas or Easter dinner, a boneless leg of smoked gammon meal. It is the season for roasting this amazing gammon, the left overs can be used for a cold meat platter. A No Bake and Oven bake Roast recipe idea. Boiling the gammon first to cook it faster than just roasting it. Roasting will take a long time if not boiled. So much to do with the gammon. Christmas is about sharing with family and having a family meal.
My parents used to bake a lot and make a few roasted meats to have on a meat platter for Christmas day lunch or dinners and all the left overs are for the holidays. Eaten with salads for the next few days. This gammon is so versatile and it is nice to have slices of gammon over after a meal for salads the next day. Or to have on a sandwich for a quick meal or even to add in omelet or quiche. Why not give the cook in the house a break and have all these cooked foods and salads in the fridge for a few days. An easy meal to set up and to enjoy.
What is the difference between Ham and Gammon?
Both are cuts from a pigs hind legs. Only the gammon is meat that has been cured. ( by being salted, brined or smoked.) And it is sold raw.
Do I need to boil gammon before roasting?
Yes you do. If you purchase a joint of gammon that has not been cooked. This is the process to start with. It softens the meat and shortens the time for roasting. Roasting the gammon, with the glaze is the last step to take as it will brown the meat and finish the cooking process. Tastes wonderful.
Ham is meat that is dry cured and cooked and ready to eat.
Is Gammon healthier than Ham?
Its said to be a better choice than deli ham as deli ham might be lower in fat, but contains an unhealthy amount of sodium, which Gammon does not.
Ingredients
- gammon joint or boneless gammon of your choice.
- cloves
- Honey (or maple syrup)
- Dijon mustard
- brown sugar
- onion
- medium cleaned carrots
- a few bay leaves
- peppercorns crushed
All the amounts for the ingredients and the instructions are in the recipe attached.
Carrots and onion and bay leaf to boil the gammon with until cooked. Its faster than just roasting.
The magic glazing the honey mustard and sugar sauce to glaze the scored gammon with and roast it.
How To.
The first thing you would do is obtain a large pot to fit this boneless piece of gammon in filled with water and the carrots and onion and peppers and bay leaves. Watch the water levels.
The meat is boiled first as it takes of a lot of time for roasting it slower. But do it this way makes the meat moister and easier to slice.
A meshed piece of gammon probably boneless. Which I prefer as then you have a lot more meat to slice and its easier to slice. Uncooked ready to boil in the pot with veggies.
Once the boiling/ simmering is over you would remove the mesh and score the fat of the gammon in diamond shapes and stick cloves in the meat area between the fat. Glaze it with the honey mustard sauce. Then in the oven it goes to roast and brown.
How to make this easy Honey mustard glaze.
Mix the honey and mustard and sugar together. (as simple as that, See the recipe requirements attached)
Then brush on the prepared gammon to roast further.
The gammon is roasted cloves taken of and carved when warm as its easier.
The image below shows you a boneless gammon that is roasted and cut, which is much harder to make great slices of meat for a meat platter.
Cut various roasted meats for a Christmas platter for the day with cold side salads. Even keep the cut left over meats for sandwiches or to include with salads or other vegetables.
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Roasted Honey Glazed Gammon
Roasted Honey Glazed Gammon with mustard recipe. The best oven roast for a Christmas or Easter dinner, a boneless leg of smoked gammon meal.
- Prep Time: 1 hr
- Cook Time: 3 hrs
- Total Time: 4 hrs
- Yield: 6 1x
- Category: Meals, supper or lunch, dinner
- Method: Oven Baking roast
- Cuisine: English
Ingredients
- Obtain a gammon joint or boneless gammon of your choice.
- 1/3 cup of cloves
- 3 Tablespoons of Honey (or maple syrup)
- 2 tsp of Dijon mustard
- 1/4 cup of brown sugar
- 1 onion halved
- 2 or 3 medium cleaned carrots
- a few bay leaves
- 1 Tablespoon of peppercorns crushed
Instructions
- Obtain a large enough pot to fit the Gammon in and fill the water to over the meat. (keeping the string or mesh on)
- Add the carrots whole and halved onions, the bay leaves and peppercorns. Make sure they inserted in the water as well as the gammon. Bring this to a boil. Cover the pot with a lid and simmer for the required amount of time for the kilograms of the gammon (normally it will say on the packaging)
- Make sure the gammon is always covered with water and does not boil/simmer dry.
- Remove the gammon from the pot once its done. Remove the cloves.
- While the gammon is still warm do the following.
- With your roasting pan ready and oven preheated. Take the string/mesh of the gammon carefully.
- The with a sharp knife cut diamond slits in the skin fat, being careful to not do it to deep.
- Next is to place a clove in the meat at the intersection of the scorings. All over the gammon piece.
- In a small bowl mix the honey and mustard and sugar to a smooth paste. Using a pastry brush add the honey mustard glaze onto the gammon.
- Preheated oven at 160 Deg.C, place the glazed gammon into the oven and roast for for approximately an hour (depending on the size of the gammon) The glaze should be brown and golden.
- Leave to cool or carve and serve warm.
- Gammon can be eaten as a warm dinner or kept for the meat platter and sliced up.
- Gammon is amazing for sandwiches and salads or cold meals with salads. A wonderful Christmas meat to keep for a few days (if able to) for cold meals and salads.
- The liquid you boiled the gammon in can be saved as a broth.
Notes
The boiling time on a boneless Gammon or a gammon with bone depends on the weight of the meat. Normally on the package you purchased it will tell you the time to boil. (Hrs per kg)
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