Chipotle Honey Glazed Ham
A nice piece of roast ham served at the table is another favourite during the holiday season. You can serve it alongside your roast turkey or beef, or as the main star of the show!
We love the simplicity of this Chipotle Honey Glazed Ham recipe. It’s so easy to prepare while you’re cooking other Christmas treats, but also perfect to cook a day ahead and save some precious time on the day. The key to this honey ham recipe is to cook the ham first in liquid. For this, we use beer, stock, and aromatics to infuse our ham with even more flavour. Once the ham is cooked, we score it and brush it with a mixture of honey and Gran Luchito Chipotle Paste, ready to go into the oven and to get beautifully crisp on the outside.
This simple combination of ingredients, honey and our Chipotle Paste, is all you need to make your honey roast ham shine and taste amazing on Christmas Day, ready to be sliced and enjoyed by your family and friends.
Last but not least if you have any leftovers, fry the ham slices with a bit of olive oil in a pan, just enough to warm it and crisp it up. Add the warm chipotle ham slices to a piece of crusty baguette with a bit of mayo and dijon mustard. Last but not least, add some Gran Luchito Fire Roasted Serranos and enjoy! This is the popular way to enjoy ham leftovers in Mexico.
-
Prep time
10 mins
-
Cook time
2 hrs 20 mins
-
Total time
2 hrs 30 Mins
-
Ideal for
Main Course -
Make it
Mexican -
Serves
4
Nutrition: Per serving
kcal 91 fat 3.4g saturates 1.1g carbs 6.5g sugars 6.2g fibre 0.2g protein 7.8g salt 1.3g
Found in the
Mexican Section
Ingredients
Ham:
- 1 kg / 2.2lb unsmoked gammon
- 1 white onion, cut into large pieces
- 3 fat garlic cloves
- 2 bay leaves
- 4 rosemary sprigs
- 1 teaspoon black peppercorns
- 500g / 500ml beer
- 500g / 500ml chicken stock
- Water
Chipotle Honey:
- 1 tablespoon Gran Luchito Chipotle Paste
- 170g / 1/2 cup honey or agave nectar
How to make it
- Place the gammon in a large heavy base saucepan with the onion, garlic clove, bay leaves, rosemary sprigs and peppercorns. Pour in the beer, stock, and enough water to cover the joint. Bring to a boil and then lower down the temperature, cover with a lid and simmer for 2 hours on low.
- Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F. Once ready, remove the gammon from the pan and leave to cool. In the meantime, in a bowl combine the Chipotle Paste with the honey.
- With a sharp knife criss-cross the fat layer of your gammon, place it in a baking dish, and brush it with the chipotle honey mixture all over. Place it in the oven for 20 minutes or until golden and crispy. Remember to keep basting the roast ham while cooking, and do this at least 2 to 3 times.
- Once ready, remove the chipotle ham from the oven and leave it to rest before carving.
What To Serve With Chipotle Honey Glazed Ham
We recommend serving this honey glazed ham with sides of:
Download Our Free Guide To Mexican Classics
Your free guide will be emailed to you immediately. We like using a basting brush to glaze a ham. It's easier than using a spoon, and gets the mixture all over the ham, into the creases, and doesn't make your hands all messy either. Some delicious Mexican sides by Gran Luchito of course! Try our Mexican Cauliflower Cheese, Chipotle Honey Roasted Carrots, Mexican Roast Potatoes, and Mexican Green Beans. Any of those would be great for this ham recipe. It's best to, yes. It retains the flavour, tenderness, and moisture through a gentle simmering process. Boiling is a good method to use when cooking dry-cured country hams. Cooking by this method provides a lot of flavour because it draws additional flavour from the meat itself and the bones as the ham cooks. Subscribe now for a free copy of the Gran Luchito e-cookbook filled with delicious, authentic Mexican recipes and join our mailing list for all the latest recipes, news and blog updates.
Similar Recipes You Might Like to Try
Leftover Ham and Potato Hash
FAQs
How to glaze a ham?
What to serve with roast ham?
Do you have to boil a ham before baking?
Comments / Questions / Tips
We loved this! We made it on Boxing Day and it was totally delicious!
Great to hear Lisa, thanks for letting us know. What did you serve it with?
Absolutely delicious, especially with the glazed carrots and chipotle roast potatoes on the side!
They work together like a dream don’t they!
My go-to Christmas (or any other time!) ham recipe. I find boiling then baking the ham keeps it nice and juicy – nobody likes a dry ham! The Chipotle Chilli honey adds an amazing kick to it – that little bit different to your bog standard Xmas ham, that little bit more special! Sweet and warming sticky glaze – yum! My partner and I put chilli in most everything, so we were on to a winner here! Great to pick at fresh from the oven or as cold cuts, we love serving it with crusty bread and pickles!
No dry or bog standard ham in sight here! Great feedback, thank you Charley
Made this over Christmas, but made a glaze with your Chipotle paste and some black treacle rather than the honey and it was banging!
Had intended to use it with different meals, but it was so delicious we literally just kept putting it in some buttered rolls for about three days straight 🤣
Good tip re treacle! That would certainly work pretty darn well too. The image of your buttered rolls with this recipe stuffed inside is just too much! 😋😍